Mozart! | |
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Music | Sylvester Levay |
Lyrics | Michael Kunze |
Book | Michael Kunze |
Basis | The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Productions | 1999 Austria 2002 Japan 2003 Hungary 2015 Vienna revival |
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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.
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.