Text below copied from the English National Opera TV page (in the 'Support Us' section of the ENO website): 

"We are delighted to be talking to Simon Banks, author of the fascinating new book Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World. This book – beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day – is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Unlike anything previously published, this is a book for lovers of history and the arts, and for…