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• Jun 28th 2005 to Jul 1st 2005

Event Details

• Group: Chelmsford Theatre Workshop

Address

• Address:
  
  Old Court Theatre, 233 Springfield Road [Opposite the prison], Chelmsford, Essex
• Location: Eastern

Contact Details

• Contact: info [at] ctw [dot] org [dot] uk

Extra Information

• Notes: In old age, Salieri recalls his successful career as Court Composer, his hatred of Mozart, and how he conceived the brilliant young composer’s demise. With an obnoxious personality totally incongruous with his musical genius, Mozart died neglected and impoverished while the mediocre Salieri lived in a blaze of fame and praise. Salieri’s ironic fate was to be the only man at court to realise that from the ordinary Mozart created legends whereas he, himself, from legends created only the ordinary. Now approaching his own death, Salieri has nothing but the awareness of his own hollow achievements and a terrible intention to achieve another kind of immortality. A gripping
• Webpage: http://www.ctw.org.uk