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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.
List of contents
Exhibition List
Patrons of the Museum
Guidebook A Mozartean Museum
The Death of Tragedy
Exhibiting Enlightenment
Dramma per musicaMap of the Exhibits
Entrance Hall Arts, Letters, and Music
Modern Antiquarian Spaces
"La Poésie" and its Systems
Arts and Letters
The Lyrical Impulse
Exhibit A The Poet's Prose: Mitridate Room 1 Literary Adventures in Télémacomania
Treasonous Popularity
Sensual Lyricism
Tragic Prose on Trial
Opera as Mediator
Room 2
Mitridate's Operatic Poetry
Allegorical Mithridates
Political Mithridates
Operatic Mithridates
Transformative Farnace
Exhibit B Paintings Unseen: Idomeneo Room 3 Imagi(ni)ng the Prose Epic
Epic Values
Painting
TélémaqueMyths Invisible and Unheard
Epic Opera
Room 4
Idomeneo's Operatic Canvas
The Operatic Stage as Canvas
The Composition of an Opera
Portrait of a King
Supernatural Angles
Exit Regrets on Parting
Decorative Luxury
Prose Painting
Declassification
Bookshop
About the author
KATHARINA CLAUSIUS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and World Languages, Université de Montréal, Canada.
Summary
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.
