{"product_id":"opera-and-the-politics-of-tragedy-9781648250491","title":"Opera and the Politics of Tragedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER: \u003c\/b\u003e2025 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award (Mozart Society of America)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImaginatively structured as a guided tour, \u003ci\u003eOpera and the Politics of Tragedy \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the tumultuous impact of the so-called Telemacomania crisis through its key artifacts: literary pamphlets, spoken dramas, paintings, engravings, and opera librettos (\u003ci\u003edrammi per musica\u003c\/i\u003e). Prominently featured in the gallery are two operas with direct ties to this aesthetic and political war: Mozart and Cigna-Santi's \u003ci\u003eMitridate \u003c\/i\u003e(1770) and Mozart and Varesco's \u003ci\u003eIdomeneo \u003c\/i\u003e(1781).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading 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.\"","brand":"Katharina Clausius","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280804688123,"sku":"9781648250491","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781648250491.jpg?v=1772485987","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/opera-and-the-politics-of-tragedy-9781648250491","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}