Szegedi Kortárs Balett: AMADEUS

Mozart was insatiably in love with life. He embraced everything considered “sinful”: wine, cards, billiards. And his passion extended to musical ornaments: flowery acciaccaturas, trills, cadences others dared not risk, and chromatic runs. But there can be no doubt the main objects of his desire were women. He dedicated several of his masterpieces to one or other of his lovers, who were thus immortalised by these concert and opera arias. Mozart did not hold up a mirror to them, he raised halos above their heads. The Szeged Contemporary Dance Company’s production entitled Amadeus is founded on these dedicated works. It is through the subjective memories that spring up from within them, the fragments of sometimes contradictory character sketches bubbling up through them, and the gaze of these women of different ages bonding with him that an image of the man, the love god, forms.

The premiere was a co-production of Szeged Contemporary Dance Company and Müpa Budapest.