Szegedi Kortárs Balett: AMADEUS

A Requiem of Love

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.

But this brilliant genius was also irresistibly attracted to what comes after life. In his works, fate never seizes us simply to carry us off, but instead places us in a new dimension. “As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence,” he wrote to a correspondent, “I have formed such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that its image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.”