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 ...

Amadeus, the television adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 stage play, has debuted with an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score.

Amadeus right away reveals its ending by tackling the most significant question: Has Salieri killed Mozart? The answer is no.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Music lovers are invited to take a fascinating journey into the life and legacy of one of history’s greatest composers during ...

A beautiful new pupil called Mira takes professor Solfa's music class by storm -- both the lovesick Chopin and his rival ...

A viral tweet recalls a wonderful anecdote, written into classical music lore, that when Mozart grew bored in opera rehearsals, he would start miaowing and acting like a cat. Fur real... Wolfgang ...

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 ...