Classical genius composer biography series tv

10 April 2024, 14:35

The play that inspired much-loved 1984 film ‘Amadeus’ is set for a TV adaptation. Here’s everything you need to know about Sky’s new Mozart series, from cast and composer to release date.

A new TV drama on the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is due to arrive on small screens later this year.

Titled Amadeus, the Sky series will follow the young composer as he arrives in bustling 18th-century Vienna, full of hopes, dreams and ambitions of great musical success.

In the Austrian capital he makes two fateful acquaintances that will transform the course of his life: young soprano Constanze Weber, who would later become his wife, and fellow composer Antonio Salieri who, in the story famously told in the original play, prays upon Mozart’s downfall.

Like the film before it, the Amadeus series will be a “fresh, intimate and irreverent” reimagining of Peter Shaffer’s original award-winning s Great Composers - DocuWiki WUXEJ