No need to imagine composer Mozart as a rock star in 18th century Vienna. This is what it would have looked like ...
Amadeus right away reveals its ending by tackling the most significant question: Has Salieri killed Mozart? The answer is no.
Amadeus is the highly anticipated drama that brings the chaotic musical genius of Wolfgang Mozart back to the screen for ...
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 ...
As you'll know if you've seen the play, or more likely the Oscar-hoovering movie adaptation from 1984, it's the fictional ...
Did Salieri really try to kill Mozart? - Sky’s Amadeus has hit our screens, but what is the truth about the rivalry between ...
Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to ...
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 ...
As Sky’s five-part drama hits our screens, stars Will Sharpe and Gabrielle Creevy plus writer Joe Barton talk to Patrick Smith about fiction straying from fact, risk-taking television, and whether the ...
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 ...