“…This book is the result of in-depth work carried out as part of the inter-university specialisation course "Education and Nature" - conducted jointly by the Departments of Human Sciences for Education "Riccardo Massa" of the University of Milan Bicocca, of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Valle d'Aosta, of Educational Sciences "Giovanni Maria Bertin" of the University of Bologna and of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries of the University of Parma (and previously by the Department of Education and Human Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) - and includes contributions by: Francesca Agostini, Francesca Antonacci, Maja Antonietti, Antonella Bachiorri, Giuseppe Barbiero, Fabrizio Bertolino, Cristina Birbes, Bettina Bolten, Mirella D'Ascenzo, Roberto Farné, Monica Guerra, Elena Mignosi, Luigina Mortari, Anna Perazzone, Andrea Pintus, Valentina Porcellana, Michela Schenetti, Enrico Squarcina, Mauro Van Aken, Beate Weyland…”

“…Beyond the operatic institutions and their key stage productions, composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Bedřich Smetana, Stanisław Moniuszko, Antonín Dvořák, and Richard Strauss are put in their social and political contexts. …”

“…Contributors: Mel Gibson (Northumbria University), Martha Newbigging (Seneca College), María Porras Sánchez (Complutense University of Madrid), JoAnn Purcell (York University and Seneca College), Benoît Glaude (Ghent University/University of Louvain), Sylvain Lesage (University of Lille), Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University), Aswathy Senan (The Research Collective Delhi), Michel De Dobbeleer (Ghent University), Sébastien Conard (KASK Ghent School of Arts and LUCA Brussels), Marthine Bertiot (University of Edinburgh), Julia Round (Bournemouth University) Ebook available in Open Access. …”