Mozart & Salieri - an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Time Zone Theatre presents Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera MOZART & SALIERI as immersive lunchtime opera.

“Villainy and genius can never be compatible?“
The opera follows the apocryphal legend that Antonio Salieri poisoned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out of jealousy over his talent. Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) used the short play Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin as libretto for his opera, which also served Peter Shaffer as inspiration to his famous stage play and film Amadeus.

Using the whole space of Phoenix Artist Club as our stage, the action unfolds around the audience, making them the centre of the performance. The intimate space makes us witnesses, if not conspirators, of Salieri’s plan to poison Mozart. Partly character study, partly crime thriller, Rimsky-Korsakov’s masterpiece will captivate its audience.

Following their successful production of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice at the Rose Playhouse in 2014, Time Zone Theatre's artistic director Pamela Schermann teams up with musical director Andrew Charity (MD of OperaUpClose’s OLIVIER award winning production of La Boheme) once more to present this rarely performed two-hander in new English translation and contemporary setting.

Praise for Time Zone Theatre’s production of Orpheus and Eurydice in 2014:
★★★★ “Musically and theatrically, the opera is one of the most warming in a long time" (Fringe Opera)
★★★★ “With clever co-ordination of the Rose theatre’s space, musical simplicity and gifted singers and musicians, Schermann’s direction executes Gluck’s love story so well that it will be sure to whisk romantics off their feet.“ (LDN Card)