Mozart! — The Musical

Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay cre­ated the musi­cal MOZART! with two goals in mind:

• to do away with mis­con­cep­tions and idol­a­try around the icon Amadeus, and
• to explore the composer’s his­tor­i­cal per­sona from a con­tem­po­rary viewpoint.

Con­sid­er­ing our ongo­ing obses­sion with child stars, this tale is as timely as ever. It’s a story about grow­ing up under pressure…

On one side, an over­bear­ing par­ent and the desires of a self­ish soci­ety. On the other hand, the strug­gle of a young genius on his path to man­hood and cre­ative development.

Mozart!

While all of us have to leave child­hood and find our ways in a world full of dan­ger and seduc­tion, our Wun­derkind faced the most dif­fi­cult obsta­cle of all: He was branded as the great­est child star ever known to soci­ety. Nobody wanted him to change — not even his own father.

As only the audi­ence and Mozart him­self are allowed to wit­ness on stage — the child Amadé forms an ever-present shadow over Wolfgang’s ado­les­cent years. The icon keeps writ­ing furi­ously while the human behaves like any young man in all his­tory: He exper­i­ments with drink­ing, lov­ing, dream­ing, and, well, grow­ing up.

Both Kunze and Levay abhor “Clas­sic Pops”. When­ever the child plays the piano, the audi­ence lis­tens to authen­tic Mozart music. The young man’s strug­gle, how­ever, is accom­pa­nied by Sylvester Levay’s inim­itable mod­ern tunes and arrangements.

Since its 1999 Aus­trian pre­miere, the drama musi­cal Mozart! has con­quered the musi­cal the­ater world via Hun­gary, Ger­many, Swe­den and Japan. Hon­ored with high­est the­atri­cal awards, Mozart! has become a cult musi­cal in its own right.