Paul Thom is a philosopher-musician and adjunct professor in the School of Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
"""This valuable and very readable book offers a compelling philosophical account of opera as artwork and supports it with detailed case studies of major operas from Monteverdi’s Orfeo to Berg’s Wozzeck. Each opera is studied in relation to a selected modern production, and the author’s evaluations of these are fascinating."" -- Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle Australia"