Amadeus
by:
Peter Shaffer (author)
0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars,...
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0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture.Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a new preface by Peter Shaffer and a new introduction by the director of the 1998 Broadway revival, Sir Peter Hall. Amadeus is a must-have for classical music buffs, theatre lovers, and aficionados of historical fiction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060935498 (0060935499)
Publish date: August 7th 2001
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Music
TITLE: Amadeus AUTHOR: Peter Shaffer ISBN-13: 978-0-141-18889-8 _____________________ DESCRIPTION: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn’t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Co...
bookshelves: winter-20102011, play-dramatisation, re-read, music, revenge, biography, historical-fiction, teh-brillianz Read on January 02, 2011, read count: 4 A BBC recording with Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart and Felicity Kendal as Constanza. It doesn't get much better than ...
Author's Notes--AmadeusMusic: Salieri's March, Mozart's Transformation Process, 'Non più andrai'Postscript: The Play and the Film
A BBC recording with Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart and Felicity Kendal as Constanza. It doesn't get much better than this. Re -read Peter Shaffer's award-winning play combines fiction and history to detail the final years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Antonio Salieri, an older compo...
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