Amadeus

In 1791, they say , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died accusing a rival composer, Antonio Salieri, of having poisoned him.

In 1823, they say , Salieri confessed to that murder.

AMADEUS represents the substance of that confession, made by a desperate Salieri on the last night of his life. He tells it to the audience, who are taken back to the gilded court of Joseph II in rococo Vienna, a place of constant gossip and intrigue, and introduced to a brilliant young musical genius - or, as Salieri puts it, to a "spiteful, sniggering, conceited infantine Mozart!"