Opera and the Politics of Tragedy

A Mozartean Museum

AvKatharina Clausius

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del 188 i serien Eastman Studies in Music

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A curated collection of Enlightenment operas, paintings, and literary works that were all marked by the "Telemacomania" scandal, a furious cultural frenzy with dangerous political stakes.WINNER: 2025 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award (Mozart Society of America)Imaginatively structured as a guided tour, Opera and the Politics of Tragedy captures the tumultuous impact of the so-called Telemacomania crisis through its key artifacts: literary pamphlets, spoken dramas, paintings, engravings, and opera librettos (drammi per musica). Prominently featured in the gallery are two operas with direct ties to this aesthetic and political war: Mozart and Cigna-Santi's Mitridate (1770) and Mozart and Varesco's Idomeneo (1781). Reading and listening across the Enlightenment's cultural spaces (its new public museums, its first encyclopedias, and its ever-controversial operatic theater), this book showcases the Enlightenment's disorderly historical revisionism alongside its progressive politics to expose the fertile creativity that can emerge out of the ambiguous space between what is "ancient" and what is "modern."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:456 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Eastman Studies in Music
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781648250491

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KATHARINA CLAUSIUS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and World Languages, Université de Montréal, Canada.

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A finely crafted interdisciplinary study, that throws light on the intellectual atmosphere of eighteenth century France by investigating the pervasive influence of François Fénelon's novel Télémaque (1699) on literature, the visual arts, and opera, pertinently for this book on the librettos of Mitridate and Idomeneo. The author's extensive exploration of Telemacomania, largely unknown in opera studies, goes far in elucidating aspects of both Mozart operas, particularly Idomeneo.

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Exhibition ListPatrons of the MuseumGuidebook A Mozartean MuseumThe Death of TragedyExhibiting Enlightenment Dramma per musicaMap of the Exhibits Entrance Hall Arts, Letters, and MusicModern Antiquarian Spaces"La Poésie" and its SystemsArts and LettersThe Lyrical Impulse Exhibit A The Poet's Prose: MitridateRoom 1 Literary Adventures in TélémacomaniaTreasonous PopularitySensual LyricismTragic Prose on TrialOpera as Mediator Room 2 Mitridate's Operatic PoetryAllegorical MithridatesPolitical MithridatesOperatic MithridatesTransformative Farnace Exhibit B Paintings Unseen: IdomeneoRoom 3 Imagi(ni)ng the Prose EpicEpic ValuesPainting TélémaqueMyths Invisible and UnheardEpic Opera Room 4 Idomeneo's Operatic CanvasThe Operatic Stage as CanvasThe Composition of an OperaPortrait of a KingSupernatural Angles Exit Regrets on PartingDecorative LuxuryProse PaintingDeclassification Bookshop