Sharpe was struck by a realisation while filming a scene where Mozart was playing the piano. He and director Alice Seabright ...

There's a big change to the Amadeus ending from the 1984 movie — and part of it was 'frightening' for the cast to film.

Did Salieri really try to kill Mozart? - Sky’s Amadeus has hit our screens, but what is the truth about the rivalry between ...

Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany’s new TV drama is flat, airless and banal. It’s a crass affair with a thin, half-hearted performance from Sharpe ...

Amadeus right away reveals its ending by tackling the most significant question: Has Salieri killed Mozart? The answer is no.

Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Sky’s new adaptation of Amadeus airs this winter, it will revive Peter Shaffer’s extraordinary play, first ...

Who knew that Alexander Pushkin’s 1830 play Mozart and Salieri would be the gift that kept giving? It fictionalises the famous rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his lesser-known contemporary ...

Yet Barton manages something unexpected. Shaffer’s monologue-laden tale of Mozart’s rival Antonio Salieri’s guilt becomes a ...

What a difference a chromosome makes. Drop the name Mozart, and for most of us what springs to mind is the familiar figure of Wolfgang Amadeus: a musical prodigy and composer whose gifts were ...

As Sky’s five-part drama hits our screens, stars Will Sharpe and Gabrielle Creevy plus writer Joe Barton talk to Patrick Smith about fiction straying from fact, risk-taking television, and whether the ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with an abridged holiday presentation ...