Opera and the Politics of Tragedy : A Mozartean Museum Hardback
by Professor Katharina Clausius
Part of the Eastman Studies in Music series
Hardback
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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. 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."
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 3 Maps
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:14/03/2023
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Category:
- Painting & paintings
- Theory of music & musicology
- Opera
- Individual composers & musicians, specific bands..
- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
- Social & cultural history
- Western philosophy: Enlightenment
- Philosophy: aesthetics
- Political structures: democracy
- ISBN:9781648250491
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 3 Maps
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:14/03/2023
-
Category:
- Painting & paintings
- Theory of music & musicology
- Opera
- Individual composers & musicians, specific bands..
- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
- Social & cultural history
- Western philosophy: Enlightenment
- Philosophy: aesthetics
- Political structures: democracy
- ISBN:9781648250491