Mozart!
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This article is about the Austrian musical concerning the composer. For other uses, see Mozart (disambiguation).
| Mozart! | |
|---|---|
| Music | Sylvester Levay |
| Lyrics | Michael Kunze |
| Book | Michael Kunze |
| Basis | The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Productions |
1999 Austria 2003 Hungary |
Mozart! is an Austrian musical, originally written in German. The original book and lyrics were written by Michael Kunze and the music and arrangements were composed by Sylvester Levay. The show is a new imagining of the struggles of the famous composer.
The original production was directed by the controversial opera director Harry Kupfer. It premiered on October 2, 1999, in the Theater an der Wien, and the final performance was on 7 May 2001. It ran for 419 performances, showing to approximately 420,000 patrons.
Productions
The production appealed especially to younger Viennese audiences. Subsequent productions have been mounted in:
- Germany: Neue Flora (Stage Entertainment), Hamburg (September 21, 2001 – June 30, 2002)
- Japan: Tokyo and Osaka (2002)
- Hungary: Budapest (2003)
- Sweden: Karlstad (2005)
- Japan: Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka (2005)
- Japan: Tokyo (2007)
- Germany: Zwickau, Plauen (2008)
- Czech Republic: Brno (2009)
- South Korea: Seoul (2010)
- Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Kanazawa (2010-2011)
Recordings
The Vienna and Budapest productions released cast albums.[1]
Chart positions
| Chart (1999-2000) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[ 1] | 10 |
References
External links
- Detailed synopsis of the plot
- Website for Vienna concert
- Mozart Bio
- Cast and information about the musical from Budapest Operetta theatre
- Stacy's Musical Village
- A 2006 review in German
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