Annarosa Berman (text) and Bridget Elliot (photographs)The company we keep: An intimate celebration of opera Australia
Abstract Books on and about opera are legion. This most extravagant of art forms has over the last twenty to thirty years become a useful sounding board by means of which many disparate disciplines explore their own concepts and methodologies. One need only think of recent scholarly work in opera arising out of disciplines as diverse as literary theory, psychoanalysis, history, politics, performance studies, gender and queer studies, and many more. Opera as a genre seems to offer scholars from many disciplines freedom and creativity when engaging with it as an art form in its own right as well as providing insights and new approaches in their particular area.