Table of Contents

Exhibition List
Patrons of the Museum
Guidebook A Mozartean Museum
The Death of Tragedy
Exhibiting Enlightenment Dramma per musica
Map 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 Télémaque
Myths 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.