No need to imagine composer Mozart as a rock star in 18th century Vienna. This is what it would have looked like ...

Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany’s new TV drama is flat, airless and banal. It’s a crass affair with a thin, half-hearted performance from Sharpe ...

Did Salieri really try to kill Mozart? - Sky’s Amadeus has hit our screens, but what is the truth about the rivalry between ...

As you'll know if you've seen the play, or more likely the Oscar-hoovering movie adaptation from 1984, it's the fictional ...

Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to ...

How Amadeus turns a wild rumour about Mozart and Salieri into unmissable Christmas TV - INTERVIEW : As Sky’s five-part drama ...

Yet Barton manages something unexpected. Shaffer’s monologue-laden tale of Mozart’s rival Antonio Salieri’s guilt becomes a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Sky’s new adaptation of Amadeus airs this winter, it will revive Peter Shaffer’s extraordinary play, first ...

This adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play pits Sharpe’s scamp Mozart against Paul Bettany’s stuffy Salieri to entertaining ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with an abridged holiday presentation ...

What a difference a chromosome makes. Drop the name Mozart, and for most of us what springs to mind is the familiar figure of Wolfgang Amadeus: a musical prodigy and composer whose gifts were ...

For decades, headlines have claimed that Mozart’s music has all kinds of amazing effects on people’s behaviour and performance. But once you look closer at the different studies behind those headlines ...