![]() ![]() ![]() Shaffer’s exploration of the impotent frustration and rage the dedicated, hard-working composer feels towards the giggling, infantile oaf who effortlessly produces music infinitely greater than anything he can manage is the resentful respect that talent pays to genius. It says a lot for the play’s durability that so much of its power and pertinence can survive a production as basically misguided as the one at present in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. Antonio Salieri’s battle with both his god and his rival Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been frequently performed and revived, with actors of the calibre of Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen, and David Suchet as Salieri, and Simon Callow, Tim Curry, and Michael Sheen as Mozart. Amadeus is English playwright Peter Shaffer’s most resilient work. ![]()
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