Salierin kunnianhimo ja missio säveltää Jumalan armosta kääntyy häntä vastaan, kun röyhkeä sikaileva Mozart saapuu hoviin. Mozart on lahjakas, mutta heikko ylläpitämään sosiaalisia suhteita. Salierin juonii Mozartin köyhyyden ja hulluuden kuilun reunalle ja sen yli. / Tekstissä oli minun makuuni liikaa suoraa puhuttelua yleisölle.

I had to update one more time because I found the soundtrack online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY4Tq... (excitement overload!!!!)**************************************************Imagine that you are the most successful musician of the age. Youre the court composer. Youve worked so hard for your role, and every action you take is dignified and intelligent. You act sophisticated and regal, as an attempt to match your persona to the music. Everyone respects your opinion and trusts you on all matters music. Your name is Antonio Salieri, and youre about to meet your reckoning.I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!One day you hear rumours of a new composer. He is said to be brilliant in his vibrancy. You go and watch him perform an opera and you collapse. You fall to your knees and you weep. You weep like youve never have before because you know that this man is better than you. He has a gift, a talent sent from god, one you wish for and one that you are mightily jealous of. Nobody else quite understands his brilliance. Everyone is dumb to music. But you know. You have to live with the knowledge that this man is the best musician of the age and nobody else knows.So what do you do with this brilliant man called Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? This man who is a complete natural?"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.Do you serve the music and help this man better himself? Or do you think about your own vain image and try to destroy him so you can remain in your roles? Despite your assertions Salieri of being wronged by this mans existence, youre the villain of this play. You ruin him. You destroy him. And you break him. You turn the individualistic Mozart, he who is essentially a mad genius, into a blubbering wreck. Mainly because your stupid sense of self image is insulted that a man such as him, one who acts like a child and is loud and obnoxious, could be better than you.But, as hard as it is for me to say it, this is only one reading of this play. In a weird sort of way, you could argue that Salieris actions bring the best out of Mozart. He pushes him to the depths of despair and depravity, and although he is destroyed in the process, he produces some wonderful music pieces in the journey. Had this never happened he would still have created fine music, but it wouldnt have been the same music. His later pieces in the play were fuelled by woe and misery; they took on a different shape and form. The two men become bound together through the jealously of the lesser. He tails on Mozarts achievements with the ultimate goal of being remembered as a shaping form in his destiny even if it is for baser reasons. At the core of things Salieri is very human, though a greater man would have realised his folly and acted in the benefits of the arts first. This is a beautifully conflicted play, and whist it is enjoyable to read, it is best to be seen. The version I watched last night in a live screening (the images I have included in this review are from the version) was stunning. Hearing the music alongside the performance is essential.

A brilliant dramatic, whirlwind-like treatment of genius and the desire for glory, _Amadeus_ is a fictionalized portrayal of the rivalry between the prodigy that was Mozart and the merely talented and inexorably envious composer, Salieri. The play starts with Salieri making a bargain with God (always a bad idea): 'make me the most amazing composer who has ever lived and I will sacrifice my life to you - not commit adultery (but just fantasize about it), deprive myself of pleasures, and glorify You through my music.' But when someone more gifted than Salieri appears (i.e. Mozart!), Salieri declares war on God.The playwright, Peter Shaffer, put it best in his postscript: 'To me there is something pure about Salieri's pursuit of an eternal Absolute through music, just as there is something irredeemably impure about his simultaneous pursuit of eternal fame.'

I watched the film couple of years ago for uni and since then always longed to see the play on stage. And finally I had the fortune of seeing it at the National Theatre in London on Feb 1, 2017! <3Obviously I wanted to read the play beforehand and what else to say than that it's as brilliant as the film?!!! Even without music it's really powerful and simply fantastic.

Excellent play! Even the stage direction is intriguing!