Amadeus (CD-Audio)

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Full-cast LA Theater Works. This is a fanciful recreation of Mozart's life that has probably done more to incorrectly distort popular perception of Mozart as an infant-man twaddling-genius who composed complete opera masterpieces in his head, and who was hounded by a sinister foe echoing Les Mise...

from Joles

This is the libretto of the show. Amadeus is a wonderful representation of Mozart's life and it's told through the eyes of a sneaky Saliere.

from angelofmusic_81

The play is strikingly different from the film. Pay special attention to the stage directions for the "hissing" noise created by repeating Salieri's name, and the stark modernist set. It makes for a completely unique mood in the play not recreated in the film. Schaffer has the sheer audacity to r...

from caseybp

I really want to see this staged, or in fact stage it. What a brilliant piece of theatre.

from Unreachableshelf

Seeing this play on stage earlier this season is what made me realize how much I loved Peter Shaffer. The film version is far less deep and complex, and does not for a second hint that it came from the same writer as Equus. The stage version is as clearly the work of the same artist as Man of la ...