Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Antonio Salieri
Running time: 2 hours (with one intermission)
Premiered on 17 February 1995
The tragedy is founded on a tradition which charges the composer Salieri with having poisoned Mozart out of envy. Salieri has devoted all his life to the service of music and achieved much, but now realizes that musical talent does not appreciate so much sacrifice and instead rewards a lazy, frivolous and unprincipled individual such as, in his opinion, Mozart. Mozart arrives in the company of a blind musician who he had met in the street whilst he was massacring a piece of Mozart’s music. He sits at the piano and improvizes a short fantasy, full of sad presentiments. Salieri decides to kill Mozart, who has too much talent. He invites him to dinner. At dinner Mozart tells Salieri that three weeks ago a man "all dressed in mourning black" called to see him and requested him to write a Requiem. Since that time the man has never come to claim his order, though the Requiem is ready. Mozart admits that "by night and day my man in black still haunts me." Salieri tries to calm him down. After some hesitation, he secretly puts poison in Mozart’s wine. Mozart drinks, then sits at the piano and plays his Requiem. But soon he feels ill and takes his leave. When left alone, Salieri begins to realize the pointlessness of his crime: he has silenced his jealousy, but he has also destroyed his faith in his own talent. Villainy and genius - he remembers the words that Mozart spoke a short time before - are incompatibles.
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