Opera and modern culture Wagner and Strauss /
Lawrence Kramer.
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, (c)2004.
- 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Musicologist Lawrence Kramer argues that for the past two centuries the preoccupation of a group of famous operas with the limits of supremacy and debasement has come to define a normality that is the very opposite of the operatic.