Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
By: with an introduction by the director Sir Peter Hall and a wholly new preface by the author.
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780060935498
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Drama; Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825 -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Notes: Evening Standard Drama Award, Theatre Critics Award, Tony Award
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sir Peter Hall; title: Preface : Amadeus : the final encounter / Peter Shaffer; title: The set; title: Author's note; title: Characters; title: Act one.; title: Scene 1 : Vienna; title: Scene 2 : Salieri's apartment; title: Scene 3 : Transformation to the eighteenth century; title: Scene 4 : The palace of Schönbrunn; title: Scene 5 : The library of the Baroness Waldstädten; title: Scene 6 : Salieri's apartment; title: Scene 7 : The palace of Schönbrunn; title: Scene 8 : The first performance of The Abduction from the Seraglio; title: Scene 9 : Bonno's salon; title: Scene 10 : The Waldstädten library; title: Scene 11 : Salieri's apartment; title: Scene 12 : The same; title: Act two.; title: Scene 1 : Salieri's apartment; title: Scene 2 : The palace of Schönbrunn; title: Scene 3 : Vienna, and glimpses of opera houses; title: Scene 4 : Salieri's apartment; title: Scene 5 : An unlit theater; title: Scene 6 : The theater; title: Scene 7 : The first performance of Figaro; title: Scene 8 : The Waldstädten library; title: Scene 9 : The two grim chords which open the overture to Don Giovanni sound loudly throughout the theater; title: Scene 10 : Vienna and the palace of Schönbrunn; title: Scene 11 : The Prater; title: Scene 12 : A Masonic lodge; title: Scene 13 : Mozart's apartment; Salieri's apartment; title: Scene 14 : The theater by the Weiden; title: Scene 15 : Salieri's apartment, and outside in Vienna; title: Scene 16 : Mozart's apartment; title: Scene 17 : He moves to one side. Constanze appears upstage, bonnet in hand and wearing a shawl; title: Scene 18 : The citizens of Vienna enter, dressed in black; title: Scene 19 : Salieri's apartment; title: Salieri's march [song]; title: "Non Piu Andrai" [song]; title: About the author