Opera and Democracy
Martha C. Nussbaum, distinguished service professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of The Republic of Love: Opera & Political Freedom (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-republic-of-love-9780197812556?cc=us&lang=en&)  (Oxford University Press, 2026), offers her analysis of opera as an arm of the Enlightenment, from Mozart to today.  cover image courtesy of t…