Music Sylvester Levay Book Michael Kunze | Lyrics 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.
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The original production was directed by the 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:
Recordings
The Vienna and Budapest productions released cast albums, as well as the Japanese and Korean productions. In addition to that, the Korean production released two DVDs with a different cast on each. It was announced that there will be a DVD from the New Vienna production. The DVD will be released at the end of April/ beginning of May.