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Amadeus
Written by Peter Shaffer
Narrated by Steven Brand, James Callis, Michael Emerson and
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Ambition and jealousy — all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards?
The 1981 Tony Award ® winner for Best Play.
Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September, 2016.
- Directed by Rosalind Ayres
- Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
- Steven Brand as Baron van Swieten
- James Callis as Mozart
- Michael Emerson as Salieri
- Darren Richardson as Venticello 2
- Alan Shearman as Count Orsini-Rosenberg
- Mark Jude Sullivan as Venticello 1
- Simon Templeman as Joseph II
- Brian Tichnell as Count Johann Kilian Von Strack
- Jocelyn Towne as Constanze
Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Sound Designer, Recording Engineer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Foley Artist, Jeff Gardner. Production Manager, Tori Burnett. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Music Supervisor, Scott Willis. Foreign Language Consultant, Matthew Wolf. Select Original Sound Design by Darron L. West, performed by Victor Zupnac.
Author
Peter Shaffer
One of the foremost playwrights of our time, Peter Shaffer has had seven plays produced on Broadway. He has won every major dramatic award as well as an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation of his play Amadeus.
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