Mozart!
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.
Mozart! | |
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Music | Sylvester Levay |
Lyrics | Michael Kunze |
Book | Michael Kunze |
Basis | The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Productions | 1999 Austria 2003 Hungary 2015 Vienna revival |
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:
- Germany: Neue Flora (Stage Entertainment), Hamburg (September 21, 2001 – June 30, 2002)
- Japan: Tokyo and Osaka (2002)
- Hungary: Budapest (2003)
- Sweden: Karlstad (2005)
- Japan: Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka (2005)
- Japan: Tokyo (2007)
- Germany: Zwickau, Plauen (2008)
- Czech Republic: Brno (2009)
- South Korea: Seoul (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020)
- Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Kanazawa (2010-2011)
- Japan: Tokyo (2014)
- Austria: Vienna (2015)
- China: Shanghai (2016)
- Belgium: Antwerp (2017)
- Japan: Tokyo (2018)
- China: Beijing (2019)
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. A DVD and a cast album have been released based on the 2015 Vienna production.
Chart positions
Chart (1999-2000) | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[1] | 10 |
References
- "Austriancharts.at – Musical – Mozart!" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 8, 2013.