Opera and the Culture of FascismTambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth and early twentieth century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high art. Examining over a dozen operas in detail, Tambling discovers an ideology with both reactionary and revolutionary potentials. Author: Jeremy Tambling