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BY PETER SHAFFER
“Goodness is nothing in
the furnace of art”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant
musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-
century Vienna doesn’t recognise Mozart’s talents - except for
Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, who is tortured by what
he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant
buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri
declares war and sets out to destroy Mozart, the man he sees
as God’s instrument on Earth.