{"id":15183,"date":"2014-07-27T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15183"},"modified":"2014-07-27T20:27:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:27:55","slug":"did-salieri-kill-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15183","title":{"rendered":"Did Salieri kill Mozart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1979, there were the first performances of a play by Peter Shaffer called &#8220;Amadeus&#8221; which postulated that Antonio Salieri drove Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an early death or even poisoned him. I did not see the play but I did view the 1984 American film &#8220;Amadeus&#8221; directed by Milo\u0161 Forman [see my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/clfilms.html#Amadeus\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, after 35 years, I finally saw the play. The venue was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cft.org.uk\/\">Chichester Festival Theatre<\/a> which has just been the subject of a \u00a322 million refurbishment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cft.org.uk\/5014\/AMADEUS\/631\">&#8220;Amadeus&#8221;<\/a> is the first play since the project was completed.<\/p>\n<p>In a fine performance, Rupert Everett played Salieri, while Joshua McGuire was Mozart. In the play, Salieri is the central character as compared to the film. Also, although Shaffer wrote both, the play is ultimately dismissive of the notion of murder while the film seems to give it some credence.<\/p>\n<p>So did Salieri kill Mozart? There is simply no credible evidence as explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2003\/dec\/19\/classicalmusicandopera.italy\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1979, there were the first performances of a play by Peter Shaffer called &#8220;Amadeus&#8221; which postulated that Antonio Salieri drove Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an early death or even poisoned him. I did not see the play but I did view the 1984 American film &#8220;Amadeus&#8221; directed by Milo\u0161 Forman [see my review here]. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15190,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions\/15190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}