Professor Alexandra Wilson is a musicologist and cultural historian. After holding two Oxford Junior Research Fellowships, she taught at Oxford Brookes University for nineteen years, latterly as Professor of Music and Cultural History. She is currently Researcher in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. She has previously published The Puccini Problem (2007), Opera in the Jazz Age (2019), Puccini's La bohème (2021) and Puccini in Context (2023). She writes and broadcasts widely about cultural matters and works regularly with the UK's leading opera companies.

Timely and provocative....Scrupulously researched, it patiently refutes lazily antagonistic prejudice.

• 1: The Elitism Myth 2: Opera for All 3: (Dis)-Enchanted Gardens 4: Opera Goes to War 5: Pageantry and Participation 6: Counterculture 7: A National Opera? 8: The E-Word 9: A Perfect Storm 10: Twenty-First-Century Blues 11: This Sceptic Isle Conclusion

Professor Alexandra Wilson is a musicologist and cultural historian. After holding two Oxford Junior Research Fellowships, she taught at Oxford Brookes University for nineteen years, latterly as Professor of Music and Cultural History. She is currently Researcher in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. She has previously published The Puccini Problem (2007), Opera in the Jazz Age (2019), Puccini's La bohème (2021) and Puccini in Context (2023). She writes and broadcasts widely about cultural matters and works regularly with the UK's leading opera companies.

Timely and provocative....Scrupulously researched, it patiently refutes lazily antagonistic prejudice.

• 1: The Elitism Myth 2: Opera for All 3: (Dis)-Enchanted Gardens 4: Opera Goes to War 5: Pageantry and Participation 6: Counterculture 7: A National Opera? 8: The E-Word 9: A Perfect Storm 10: Twenty-First-Century Blues 11: This Sceptic Isle Conclusion

Professor Alexandra Wilson is a musicologist and cultural historian. After holding two Oxford Junior Research Fellowships, she taught at Oxford Brookes University for nineteen years, latterly as Professor of Music and Cultural History. She is currently Researcher in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. She has previously published The Puccini Problem (2007), Opera in the Jazz Age (2019), Puccini's La bohème (2021) and Puccini in Context (2023). She writes and broadcasts widely about cultural matters and works regularly with the UK's leading opera companies.

Timely and provocative....Scrupulously researched, it patiently refutes lazily antagonistic prejudice.

• 1: The Elitism Myth 2: Opera for All 3: (Dis)-Enchanted Gardens 4: Opera Goes to War 5: Pageantry and Participation 6: Counterculture 7: A National Opera? 8: The E-Word 9: A Perfect Storm 10: Twenty-First-Century Blues 11: This Sceptic Isle Conclusion