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 young Mozart and the older composer Salieri ...
Amadeus right away reveals its ending by tackling the most significant question: Has Salieri killed Mozart? The answer is no.
Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to ...
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 ...
Yet Barton manages something unexpected. Shaffer’s monologue-laden tale of Mozart’s rival Antonio Salieri’s guilt becomes a ...
This adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play pits Sharpe’s scamp Mozart against Paul Bettany’s stuffy Salieri to entertaining ...
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 ...
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with an abridged holiday presentation ...
Sharpe was struck by a realisation while filming a scene where Mozart was playing the piano. He and director Alice Seabright ...
There’s only so much you can take before you walk away.” If Constanze is given more life in this interpretation, Sharpe’s ...
Why does a Mozart opera make me weepBut I don’t cry at any other one?Herr Wagner’s thunderbolts put me to sleep.Rossini’s ...