MOZART!

The musical

Musical by Michael Kunze & Sylvester Levay
Production: Harry Kupfer
Stage Sets: Hans Schavernoch

World Premiere on 2 October 1999
in the Theater an der Wien
Final Performance on 7 May 2001
419 Performances, approximately 420,000 Patrons.The musical MOZART! is based on the life story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The focal point of the story is an inspired artist who must free himself from his tyrannical but loving father and his system of control in order to develop as a musician and a person. Above all, in Mozart’s struggles for independence, Michael Kunze depicts a drama about growing up. A drama with which we are all familiar. But it was more difficult for Mozart than for most people. After all, his father and an amazed world described him as childhood perfection personified. The cute child made of porcelain, which he allegedly was, continued to pursue him like a shadow when he grew up. In the musical MOZART! this is what actually happens. We see two Mozarts: the person Wolfgang and the genius Amadé. Little Amadé is omnipresent in the life of the adult Mozart.
MOZART! – the musical aims to release the cliché of the historical figure from the sentimentalising and idolisation, to discover the figure afresh from a modern standpoint.

The Leading Team:

Idea, Book and Lyrics: Michael Kunze
Music & Arrangements: Sylvester Levay
Direction: Harry Kupfer
Stage Sets: Hans Schavernoch
Musical Staging: Dennis Callahan
Costumes: Yan Tax
Sound Design: Tony Meola
Lighting Design: Franz Peter David
Musical Direction: Caspar Richter

Premiere Cast:

Mozart: Yngve Gasoy-Romdal
Amadé: Alma Hasun, Simon Schober, Alexej Solovjov
Leopold Mozart: Thomas Borchert
Hieronymus Colloredo: Uwe Kröger
Constanze Mozart: Ruth Brauer
Nannerl Mozart: Caroline Vasicek
Cäcilia Weber: Eva Maria Marold
Baroness von Waldstätten: Lenneke Willemsen
Emanuel Schikaneder: Boris Eder
Count Arco: Dennis Kozeluh

Aloysia Weber: Corinna Porr
Josepha Weber: Lia Andes
Sophie Weber: Tina Schöltzke
Fridolin Weber/Johann Thorwart: Hans Steunzer
Doctor Franz Anton Mesmer: Helmut Ettl
Constanze Nissen: Carin Filipcic

Servants, Members of Viennese Society, Prince-Bishop Servants, Market Women, Passers-by, Visitors to the Prater, Landlord, Lackeys, Masked Persons, Card Players, A Mysterious Stranger, Actors, Souvenir Sellers, Theatre Patrons:

Birge Funke, Kathrin Genitheim, Mona Graw, Lisette Groot, Judith Jakob, Angelina Marihart-Arnold, Carmen Wiederstein

Ulrich Allroggen, Stefan Cerny, Wolfgang DeMarco, Oliver Mülich, Jack Poppell, Sergio-Maurice Vaglio, Jörg Westerkamp

Swings:

Tania Golden, Judith Jakob, Jennifer Mitchell, Ross Antony, Christian Hauser, Michael Kuntze, Rob Pelzer