Amadeus

0:00:14 > 0:00:22This programme contains very strong language

0:00:22 > 0:00:24'Mozart!'

0:00:31 > 0:00:33'Mozart!'

0:00:36 > 0:00:37'Your killer confesses.'

0:00:37 > 0:00:41'I confess! I killed you!'

0:00:41 > 0:00:44'I killed you, Mozart!'

0:00:47 > 0:00:52'Pieta! Mozart, pieta! Forgive your assassin!'

0:00:52 > 0:00:55'Forgive me, Mozart!'

0:00:57 > 0:01:00Signor Salieri, open the door. Be good now.

0:01:00 > 0:01:04Signore, I have something for you.

0:01:04 > 0:01:06Something you're going to love!

0:01:10 > 0:01:13Mmmm, is that good!

0:01:13 > 0:01:21Believe me, > this is the most delicious thing I ever ate in my life!

0:01:21 > 0:01:27- Really, Signore, you don't... - A-A-A-A-HHHH! - HEAVY THUD

0:01:31 > 0:01:35All right, that's enough! Open the door!

0:01:37 > 0:01:44Signore, if you don't open the door, we're going to eat everything and leave nothing for you!

0:01:44 > 0:01:48And I'll never come and see you again!

0:01:48 > 0:01:51DISCORDANT PIANO CHORD

0:01:54 > 0:01:58QUIET MOANING

0:02:15 > 0:02:21MOZART: SYMPHONY NO.25 IN G MINOR

0:04:38 > 0:04:41< Good morning, Father.

0:04:49 > 0:04:52HESITANT FORTEPIANO PLAYING >

0:05:08 > 0:05:11Herr Salieri?

0:05:44 > 0:05:46Leave me alone.

0:05:49 > 0:05:54I cannot leave alone a soul in pain.

0:05:55 > 0:05:58Do you know who I am?

0:05:59 > 0:06:05That makes no difference. All men are equal in God's eyes.

0:06:10 > 0:06:14- Are they(?) - Make your confession.

0:06:18 > 0:06:21I can offer you God's forgiveness.

0:06:25 > 0:06:28How well are you trained in music?

0:06:31 > 0:06:35I know a little. I studied it in my youth.

0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Oh, where?- Here in Vienna.

0:06:38 > 0:06:41Ah! Then you must know this...

0:06:41 > 0:06:45PLAYS A MELODY LINE

0:06:49 > 0:06:52I can't say that I do.

0:06:53 > 0:06:58- What is it?- It was a very popular tune in its day!

0:06:58 > 0:07:00I wrote it.

0:07:02 > 0:07:05Here. How about this...?

0:07:05 > 0:07:09It brought down the house when we played it first.

0:07:09 > 0:07:14STARTS PLAYING FRAGMENT OF OPERA

0:07:15 > 0:07:21SOPRANO SINGS ARIA

0:07:41 > 0:07:46TUMULTUOUS APPLAUSE AND CRIES OF 'BRAVO'

0:07:54 > 0:07:55Well?

0:07:58 > 0:08:05- I regret it is not too familiar. - Can you recall no melody of mine?

0:08:05 > 0:08:11I was the most famous composer in Europe! I wrote 40 operas alone!

0:08:12 > 0:08:16Here... What about this one...?

0:08:18 > 0:08:21PLAYS 'EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK'

0:08:21 > 0:08:24PRIEST CONTINUES THE TUNE

0:08:32 > 0:08:34Yes! I know that!

0:08:34 > 0:08:38It's charming! I didn't know you wrote it.

0:08:40 > 0:08:42I didn't.

0:08:48 > 0:08:51THAT was Mozart.

0:08:53 > 0:08:58Wolfgang...Amadeus...Mozart.

0:09:00 > 0:09:03The man you say you killed.

0:09:05 > 0:09:10- You've heard that?- Is it true?

0:09:19 > 0:09:26For God's sake, my son... if you HAVE something to confess,

0:09:26 > 0:09:29do it now!

0:09:29 > 0:09:32Give yourself some peace.

0:09:36 > 0:09:41He...was my idol!

0:09:41 > 0:09:43'KLAVIERSTUCK' BY MOZART, AGED TEN

0:09:45 > 0:09:50Mozart... I can't think of a time when I didn't know his name!

0:09:50 > 0:09:54I was still playing childish games,

0:09:54 > 0:10:02when he was playing music for kings and emperors, even the Pope in Rome!

0:10:02 > 0:10:05I admit, I was jealous

0:10:05 > 0:10:09when I heard the tales they told about him.

0:10:09 > 0:10:16Not of the brilliant prodigy, but of his father who had taught him EVERYTHING!

0:10:16 > 0:10:19MY father did not care for music.

0:10:19 > 0:10:24When I told him I wished I could be like Mozart,

0:10:24 > 0:10:29he would say, "Why? Do you want to be a trained monkey?

0:10:29 > 0:10:34"Would you like me to drag you around Europe doing tricks?"

0:10:37 > 0:10:43How could I tell HIM what music meant to me?

0:10:45 > 0:10:48PERGOLESI'S STABAT MATER

0:10:57 > 0:11:02While my father prayed earnestly to God to protect commerce...

0:11:04 > 0:11:11..I would offer up, secretly, the proudest prayer a boy could think of -

0:11:12 > 0:11:15"Lord, make me a great composer.

0:11:15 > 0:11:21"Let me celebrate Your glory through music... and be celebrated myself.

0:11:23 > 0:11:28"Make me famous through the world, dear God. Make me immortal!

0:11:28 > 0:11:35"After I die, let people speak my name forever with love for what I wrote.

0:11:37 > 0:11:43"In return... I will give You my chastity,

0:11:43 > 0:11:46"and my industry.

0:11:47 > 0:11:52"My deepest humility every hour of my life.

0:11:53 > 0:11:54"Amen."

0:11:55 > 0:12:00And do you know what happened? A miracle!

0:12:00 > 0:12:03< CHOKING SOUNDS

0:12:07 > 0:12:09FRANCESCO!

0:12:11 > 0:12:16# Amen, amen, amen. Amen, amen. #

0:12:16 > 0:12:20My life changed forever.

0:12:21 > 0:12:26I knew God had obviously arranged it all.

0:12:26 > 0:12:31One minute I was a frustrated boy in an obscure little town

0:12:31 > 0:12:36and the next I was here! Vienna! City of musicians...

0:12:36 > 0:12:40..and Emperor Joseph, the musical king!

0:12:40 > 0:12:46In a few years, I was his court composer. Isn't that incredible?

0:12:46 > 0:12:54Night after night, I sat next to the Austrian Emperor, playing duets and correcting his sight-reading.

0:12:56 > 0:12:59Actually, the man had no ear at all.

0:13:01 > 0:13:03But what did it matter?

0:13:03 > 0:13:06He adored my music!

0:13:07 > 0:13:09Tell me.

0:13:09 > 0:13:12If you had been me,

0:13:12 > 0:13:15wouldn't you have thought God had accepted your vow?

0:13:19 > 0:13:21And believe me, I honoured it.

0:13:21 > 0:13:23I was a model of virtue.

0:13:23 > 0:13:25I kept my hands off women.

0:13:25 > 0:13:28I worked hours every day teaching students,

0:13:28 > 0:13:30many of them for free.

0:13:30 > 0:13:35Sitting on endless committees to help poor musicians.

0:13:35 > 0:13:39Work and work and work - that was all my life.

0:13:39 > 0:13:41And it was wonderful.

0:13:41 > 0:13:44Everybody liked me.

0:13:44 > 0:13:47I liked myself.

0:13:50 > 0:13:52Until he came.

0:13:54 > 0:13:59He came to Vienna to play some of his music

0:13:59 > 0:14:04at the residence of his employer, the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg.

0:14:04 > 0:14:07EARLY 18TH CENTURY GYPSY MUSIC

0:14:07 > 0:14:10Eagerly I went to seek him out.

0:14:12 > 0:14:14That night...

0:14:16 > 0:14:18..changed my life.

0:14:22 > 0:14:28As I wandered through the salon I played a little game with myself.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31This man wrote his first concerto at four,

0:14:31 > 0:14:34his first symphony at seven,

0:14:34 > 0:14:37a full-scale opera at 12!

0:14:37 > 0:14:40Did it show?

0:14:41 > 0:14:46Is talent like THAT written on the face?

0:14:49 > 0:14:53Which one of them could he be?

0:14:55 > 0:14:57SCREAM

0:15:55 > 0:15:58YELPS AND GIGGLES

0:16:30 > 0:16:32SCREAM

0:16:32 > 0:16:35HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER

0:16:52 > 0:16:55Mozart is not here.

0:16:59 > 0:17:02- Stop it!- I am stopped!- STOP IT!

0:17:02 > 0:17:05- I am!- STOP IT!- I am stopping.

0:17:05 > 0:17:09Slowly... There. You see?

0:17:09 > 0:17:12I've stopped.

0:17:12 > 0:17:17- We're going back.- No! - Yes! You don't know where you are.

0:17:17 > 0:17:19Here everything goes backwards.

0:17:19 > 0:17:23People walk and dance backwards.

0:17:23 > 0:17:27- They even talk backwards! - That's stupid!

0:17:27 > 0:17:29Why? People fart backwards!

0:17:29 > 0:17:33HE GIVES A HIGH PITCHED BRAY

0:17:33 > 0:17:38- Ssa ym ssik.- Yes, you are sick!

0:17:38 > 0:17:43- No! Say it backwards, shit-wit! - Ssa ym ssik?- Ssa ym ssik.

0:17:43 > 0:17:48Ssik - kiss...ym - my...

0:17:48 > 0:17:52Ssa... Kiss my ass!

0:17:52 > 0:17:54Em yrram!

0:17:54 > 0:17:59- No! I'm not playing!- It's serious. Say it and see.

0:18:02 > 0:18:06Yrram - marry, em - me. Marry me.

0:18:06 > 0:18:10No, I'm not going to marry you! You're a fiend!

0:18:10 > 0:18:16- Uoy evol I tub! Uoy evol I tub! - Tub - but...

0:18:16 > 0:18:20..I... evol - love...

0:18:20 > 0:18:25- But I love you? - (I love you.)

0:18:31 > 0:18:34- Tish ym tea.- What?- Tish ym tea.

0:18:34 > 0:18:37Tish...ym...tea...

0:18:37 > 0:18:40Tea - eat...

0:18:40 > 0:18:43..ym - my...

0:18:44 > 0:18:46..tish...

0:18:46 > 0:18:50Eat my shit! YOU FILTHY BEAST!

0:18:50 > 0:18:55- MUSIC HEARD FAINTLY - Ssh!

0:18:55 > 0:18:57My music!

0:18:59 > 0:19:02They've started without me!

0:19:02 > 0:19:05MOZART: SERENADE FOR WINDS

0:20:11 > 0:20:14THAT was Mozart!

0:20:14 > 0:20:21THAT... That giggling, dirty-minded creature I had just seen crawling on the floor!

0:20:21 > 0:20:26I think that went off remarkably well, don't you?

0:20:26 > 0:20:30The Viennese certainly know good music!

0:20:31 > 0:20:33Your Grace.

0:20:34 > 0:20:37Ah, Mozart.

0:20:40 > 0:20:43- < Why?- Why what, sir?

0:20:43 > 0:20:48Why was I humiliated in front of my guests by one of my servants?

0:20:48 > 0:20:52The more licence I allow you, the more you take!

0:20:52 > 0:20:57If His Grace isn't satisfied, he can dismiss me.

0:20:57 > 0:21:05- I wish you to return immediately to Salzburg. Your father is waiting for you there.- No, Your Grace.

0:21:05 > 0:21:10I'd prefer you dismissed me. I obviously don't satisfy.

0:21:10 > 0:21:17I do not intend to dismiss you. You will remain in my service and learn your place.

0:21:24 > 0:21:27APPRECIATIVE APPLAUSE

0:21:53 > 0:21:57On the page it looked...nothing!

0:21:57 > 0:22:00The beginning simple, almost comic.

0:22:00 > 0:22:07Just a pulse...bassoons, basset horns...

0:22:07 > 0:22:10like a rusty squeeze-box.

0:22:12 > 0:22:15And then...

0:22:15 > 0:22:21..suddenly, high above it... an oboe!

0:22:24 > 0:22:28A single note, hanging there, unwavering.

0:22:29 > 0:22:34Until...a clarinet took it over...

0:22:36 > 0:22:41..and sweetened it into a phrase of SUCH delight!

0:22:42 > 0:22:48This was no composition by a performing monkey.

0:22:51 > 0:22:54This was a music I had never heard!

0:22:56 > 0:23:01Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing!

0:23:01 > 0:23:06It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.

0:23:06 > 0:23:08Excuse me.

0:23:08 > 0:23:11But, WHY...

0:23:11 > 0:23:16Why had God chosen an obscene child to be His instrument?

0:23:17 > 0:23:18It was not to be believed.

0:23:19 > 0:23:21This piece had to be an accident.

0:23:21 > 0:23:22It had to be.

0:23:28 > 0:23:29It better be.

0:23:29 > 0:23:33How good is he, this Mozart?

0:23:33 > 0:23:37He's remarkable, Majesty! I heard his opera,

0:23:37 > 0:23:42- "Idomeneo, King of Crete". - THAT!- >

0:23:42 > 0:23:45I heard it. A most tiresome piece!

0:23:45 > 0:23:47Tiresome?

0:23:47 > 0:23:52A young man trying to impress beyond his abilities.

0:23:52 > 0:23:56Too much spice, too... too many notes!

0:23:56 > 0:24:00Majesty, I thought it the best work I'd heard in years!

0:24:00 > 0:24:09Well, then, we should make efforts to acquire him. We could use a GERMAN composer in Vienna, surely?

0:24:09 > 0:24:11< I'm sure he could be tempted.

0:24:11 > 0:24:18Say...er...an opera in German for our National Theatre?

0:24:18 > 0:24:22- Excellent, Sire. - But not German,

0:24:22 > 0:24:28I beg Your Majesty. Italian is the language for opera.

0:24:28 > 0:24:31All educated people agree on that.

0:24:31 > 0:24:35Mmm-hmm... What do you think, Chamberlain?

0:24:35 > 0:24:42In my opinion, Sire, it's time we had a piece in our own language -

0:24:42 > 0:24:45< plain German for plain people.

0:24:48 > 0:24:50Kapellmeister?

0:24:51 > 0:24:57Majesty, I must agree with Herr Direttore...

0:24:57 > 0:25:01..German is... >

0:25:01 > 0:25:05..scusate...too bruta for singing.

0:25:09 > 0:25:12Court Composer?

0:25:13 > 0:25:16What do you think?

0:25:16 > 0:25:21I think it's an interesting notion to keep Mozart in Vienna.

0:25:21 > 0:25:28- It should infuriate the Archbishop, if that is Your Majesty's intention. - You are cattivo, Court Composer!

0:25:30 > 0:25:37I want to meet this young man. Chamberlain, arrange a pleasant welcome for him.

0:25:37 > 0:25:40Well, there it is.

0:25:49 > 0:25:55HE TRIES OUT VARIATIONS ON A PHRASE

0:26:03 > 0:26:05Grazie, Signore.

0:26:10 > 0:26:16Yes, zis is a beautiful vig for you! It looks zo marvellous!

0:26:16 > 0:26:20- I love it!- The other one!

0:26:22 > 0:26:25I think you vill love it!

0:26:25 > 0:26:27PLAYS "MARCH OF WELCOME"

0:26:27 > 0:26:33Here is ze third one! Zo? How do you like it?

0:26:33 > 0:26:35They're all so beautiful!

0:26:35 > 0:26:38Why don't I have three heads?

0:26:38 > 0:26:41BRAYING LAUGH

0:26:43 > 0:26:46EMPEROR: Gentlemen, good morning.

0:26:48 > 0:26:55What do you have for me today? Your Majesty, Herr Mozart...

0:26:55 > 0:26:59< ..Well, he's here.

0:27:01 > 0:27:05- Well, there it is. Good!- Sire...

0:27:05 > 0:27:12- I hope you won't find it improper, but I wrote a march of welcome in his honour.- A charming idea!

0:27:12 > 0:27:16- May I see it? - It is just a trifle, of course.

0:27:19 > 0:27:21May I try it?

0:27:21 > 0:27:23Majesty!

0:27:24 > 0:27:26Let's have fun!

0:27:33 > 0:27:38HE PLAYS SLOWLY AND WITHOUT FEELING

0:27:41 > 0:27:44Delightful, Court Composer!

0:27:44 > 0:27:51- May I play it when he comes in? - You do me too much honour, Sire.

0:27:51 > 0:27:55Bring in Herr Mozart, please. But, slowly!

0:27:55 > 0:27:58I need a minute to practise.

0:28:00 > 0:28:07THE MARCH IS PLAYED HEAVILY AND BADLY WITH MANY MISTAKES

0:28:15 > 0:28:17It's C.

0:28:24 > 0:28:26G, Your Majesty.

0:28:29 > 0:28:30Excellent.

0:28:32 > 0:28:34Good. Continue.

0:28:35 > 0:28:39Ta-tum-tum-tum... Very good.

0:28:39 > 0:28:42Very good, Majesty.

0:28:42 > 0:28:45Pa-tum-te-ta-tum-te... Tempo!

0:28:45 > 0:28:50Up... Lightly, then STRONGLY - a regal march!

0:28:50 > 0:28:53Again.

0:28:54 > 0:28:57PLAYS SLIGHTLY MORE FLUENTLY

0:29:28 > 0:29:31Bravo, Majesty!

0:29:31 > 0:29:36Gentlemen, please, a little less enthusiasm, I beg you!

0:29:36 > 0:29:40- Ah, Mozart!- Majesty!

0:29:40 > 0:29:45Up...No, please, please! It's not a holy relic!

0:29:47 > 0:29:51We HAVE met before, in this very room.

0:29:51 > 0:29:54You were only six years old. >

0:29:54 > 0:29:59He was giving a delightful concert. As he got off the stool, he slipped.

0:29:59 > 0:30:03My sister, Antoinette, helped him up and guess what he did...

0:30:03 > 0:30:07He said, "Will you marry me? Yes or no?"

0:30:07 > 0:30:11BRAYING, HONKING LAUGH

0:30:11 > 0:30:16You know all these gentlemen? The Baron Van Swieten.

0:30:16 > 0:30:20- I'm a great admirer of yours. - Thank you!

0:30:20 > 0:30:22Kapellmeister Bonno.

0:30:22 > 0:30:27Our director of opera, Count Orsini-Rosenberg.

0:30:27 > 0:30:31Oh, sir, yes, the honour is mine, absolutely!

0:30:33 > 0:30:38And here is our illustrious court composer, Maestro Salieri!

0:30:40 > 0:30:44Such immense joy! Diletto straordinario!

0:30:44 > 0:30:52I know your work well, signore. I actually composed some variations on a melody of yours.

0:30:52 > 0:30:56- Which one? - 'Mio caro Adone.'- I'm flattered.

0:30:56 > 0:31:01A funny tune, but it yielded some good things!

0:31:01 > 0:31:07Now he returns the compliment. Herr Salieri composed this for you.

0:31:07 > 0:31:10Grazie, signore, sono commosso!

0:31:10 > 0:31:15On to business. Young man, we will commission an opera from you.

0:31:15 > 0:31:18What do you say?

0:31:18 > 0:31:20Majesty!

0:31:20 > 0:31:27- Did we vote in the end for German or Italian?- Actually, Sire, we finally inclined to Italian.

0:31:27 > 0:31:30Did we?

0:31:31 > 0:31:33I don't think it was decided.

0:31:36 > 0:31:41- Oh, German! German, please! Let it be German!- Why so?

0:31:41 > 0:31:44Because I have FOUND a libretto!

0:31:44 > 0:31:52- Oh? Have I seen it? - I don't think you have, Herr Director, it's quite new!

0:31:52 > 0:31:58- I'll show it to you, of course! - I think you'd better.- Well...

0:31:58 > 0:32:02Tell us about it, the story.

0:32:03 > 0:32:06Well...it's quite amusing, Majesty!

0:32:08 > 0:32:13It's set...the whole thing is set in...in...in...in a...

0:32:13 > 0:32:17BRAYING

0:32:18 > 0:32:20Yes...where?

0:32:20 > 0:32:22In a harem, Majesty.

0:32:22 > 0:32:27- In a seraglio! - You mean, in Turkey?

0:32:27 > 0:32:33- Yes! Exactly!- Then why especially does it have to be in German?

0:32:33 > 0:32:38It doesn't, especially. It could be in Turkish if you want!

0:32:38 > 0:32:41My dear fellow, >

0:32:41 > 0:32:48the language is hardly the point. Is the subject quite appropriate for a National Theatre?

0:32:48 > 0:32:53Why not...? It's charming...

0:32:53 > 0:32:57I mean, I won't actually show concubines exposing their...

0:32:59 > 0:33:02It's not indecent!

0:33:02 > 0:33:05It's moral - full of German virtues.

0:33:05 > 0:33:12Excuse me, Majesty, what are they? Being a foreigner, I'd love to learn.

0:33:13 > 0:33:17Well, tell him, Mozart.

0:33:17 > 0:33:20Name us a German virtue.

0:33:20 > 0:33:26- Love, Sire.- Oh, love(!) Of course, in Italy we know nothing about love(!)

0:33:29 > 0:33:34No, I don't think you do, watching Italian opera!

0:33:34 > 0:33:41All those male sopranos screeching, fat couples rolling their eyes! That's not love, it's RUBBISH!

0:33:44 > 0:33:46Majesty, YOU choose the language.

0:33:46 > 0:33:52My task will be to set it to the finest music ever offered!

0:33:52 > 0:33:55There it is. Let it be German.

0:33:55 > 0:33:59Here. This is yours. >

0:33:59 > 0:34:01Keep it. It is already in my head.

0:34:01 > 0:34:06- What? On one hearing only? - I think so, Sire, yes.

0:34:11 > 0:34:13Show us.

0:34:20 > 0:34:24HE PLAYS THE MARCH QUICKLY AND FLUENTLY

0:34:41 > 0:34:45The rest is just the same, isn't it?

0:34:48 > 0:34:54- A fourth doesn't work, does it? - CHANGES THE INTERVAL TO A THIRD - Try...

0:34:54 > 0:34:58HE ALTERS THE TIMING SUBTLY

0:34:58 > 0:35:02- Or... - PLAYS THE MELODY WITH BOTH HANDS

0:35:06 > 0:35:09Better? What do you think?

0:35:09 > 0:35:16HE EMBELLISHES AND TRANSFORMS IT INTO 'NON PIU ANDRAI' FROM 'THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO'

0:35:54 > 0:35:57Grazie, Signore(!)

0:35:59 > 0:36:03All I ever wanted was to sing to God.

0:36:03 > 0:36:06He gave me that longing...

0:36:07 > 0:36:10..and then made me mute! Why?

0:36:11 > 0:36:14Tell me that.

0:36:14 > 0:36:20If He didn't want me to praise Him with music, why implant the desire...

0:36:21 > 0:36:24..like a LUST in my body...

0:36:24 > 0:36:27..and then, deny me the talent?!

0:36:27 > 0:36:28DOOR >

0:36:30 > 0:36:36- Madame Cavalieri is here for her lesson, sir.- Maestro!

0:36:39 > 0:36:42Well...? How do you like it?

0:36:44 > 0:36:51It's Turkish! My hairdresser says everything this year will be Turkish!

0:36:55 > 0:36:58What else did he tell you today?

0:36:58 > 0:37:03Come, come, come, give me some gossip.

0:37:04 > 0:37:08Well, I heard you met Herr Mozart.

0:37:12 > 0:37:15Oh. News travels fast in Vienna.

0:37:15 > 0:37:19And he's been commissioned to write an opera. Is it true?

0:37:19 > 0:37:21Yes.

0:37:21 > 0:37:28- Is there a part in it for me?- No. - How do you know?- Do you know where it's set, my dear?

0:37:28 > 0:37:31- Where?- In a harem.

0:37:32 > 0:37:36- What's that?- A brothel!

0:37:37 > 0:37:39Oh-h-h-h!

0:37:39 > 0:37:40Come...

0:37:40 > 0:37:42..let's begin.

0:37:42 > 0:37:46What does he look like?

0:37:46 > 0:37:49Mozart? You might be disappointed.

0:37:49 > 0:37:50Why?

0:37:50 > 0:37:57- Looks and talent don't always go together! - Looks don't concern me, Maestro.

0:37:57 > 0:38:01Only talent interests a woman of taste.

0:38:03 > 0:38:05Er...shall we continue?

0:38:07 > 0:38:09SINGS A SCALE

0:38:11 > 0:38:15HIGHER SCALE

0:38:15 > 0:38:19ONE HIGHER STILL

0:38:19 > 0:38:21ORCHESTRA JOINS IN

0:38:21 > 0:38:27IT BECOMES THE END OF THE ARIA 'MARTERN ALLER ARTEN'...

0:38:27 > 0:38:32..FROM 'THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO'

0:38:41 > 0:38:44There she was!

0:38:45 > 0:38:48I don't know where or how they met,

0:38:48 > 0:38:55but there she stood, showing off, like the greedy songbird she was!

0:39:02 > 0:39:06# Hurt me! Break me! Kill me!

0:39:06 > 0:39:09# At last I shall be freed by death!

0:39:09 > 0:39:15# At last, at last I shall be freed by death!

0:39:15 > 0:39:20# At last I shall be freed by death! Freed at last...

0:39:20 > 0:39:25# ..At last I shall be freed... #

0:39:27 > 0:39:32Ten minutes of ghastly scales and arpeggios!

0:39:32 > 0:39:37Whizzing up and down like fireworks at a fairground!

0:39:37 > 0:39:39# ..By death! #

0:39:47 > 0:39:50I was in LOVE with the girl!

0:39:50 > 0:39:52Or, at least in lust!

0:39:55 > 0:39:58But I swear I never touched her.

0:40:01 > 0:40:07All the same, I couldn't bear to think of anyone else touching her -

0:40:07 > 0:40:11LEAST of all, the Creature!

0:40:11 > 0:40:15THE FINALE FROM 'THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO'

0:40:21 > 0:40:30# Bassa Selim lives forever, forever! He lives forever!

0:40:30 > 0:40:37# Honour to his regal name! Honour to his regal name!

0:40:37 > 0:40:41# Glory, fortune, joy and fame!

0:40:41 > 0:40:46# Bassa Selim lives forever! Honour to his regal name!

0:40:46 > 0:40:51# Glory, fortune, joy and fame!

0:40:51 > 0:40:56# Bassa Selim lives forever! Honour to his regal name!

0:40:56 > 0:41:05# Bassa Selim lives forever, forever! He lives forever!

0:41:05 > 0:41:10# Honour to his regal name! Honour to his regal name!

0:41:10 > 0:41:18# Glory, fortune, joy and fame! Glory, fortune, joy and fame!

0:41:18 > 0:41:22# Glory, fortune, joy and fame! Glory, fortune, joy and fame!

0:41:22 > 0:41:26# Glory, fortune, joy and fame! #

0:41:30 > 0:41:35WARM APPLAUSE

0:41:42 > 0:41:44PUSH!

0:41:50 > 0:41:55Brava, Madame! You are an ornament to our stage!

0:41:55 > 0:41:59- Your Majesty! - APPRECIATIVE APPLAUSE

0:41:59 > 0:42:02Well, Herr Mozart...

0:42:02 > 0:42:08..a good effort. Decidedly! An excellent effort! You have shown us something...

0:42:10 > 0:42:14- ..quite new! - It IS new! It IS, isn't it?

0:42:14 > 0:42:19- Yes, indeed. - So, then you liked it?

0:42:19 > 0:42:24- You really liked it, Sire? - Of course I did, it's very good!

0:42:24 > 0:42:31Of course, now and then, just now and then, it... it seemed a touch...

0:42:32 > 0:42:38- What do you mean, Sire? - I mean, occasionally, it seems to have...

0:42:39 > 0:42:41..Oh, how shall one say...?

0:42:44 > 0:42:51- How SHALL one say, Director? - Too many notes, Your Majesty? - Yes! Exactly!

0:42:51 > 0:42:58I don't understand. There are just as many notes, Majesty, as I required, no more, no less.

0:42:58 > 0:43:03Dear fellow, there are only so many notes the ear can hear in one evening.

0:43:06 > 0:43:09Am I right in that, Court Composer?

0:43:12 > 0:43:15Yes, you are, on the whole. Yes, Majesty.

0:43:15 > 0:43:20- But this is absurd! - Don't take it too hard.

0:43:20 > 0:43:24Your work is ingenious! It's quality work!

0:43:24 > 0:43:28Cut a few notes and it's perfect!

0:43:29 > 0:43:32Which FEW did you have in mind?

0:43:32 > 0:43:34Wolfgang! >

0:43:36 > 0:43:38¬ Wolfgang! My dear!

0:43:38 > 0:43:40Wolfgang!

0:43:40 > 0:43:45Majesty, this is Frau Weber. She's my landlady.

0:43:48 > 0:43:49Enchanted.

0:43:49 > 0:43:54Oh, Sire...such an honour!

0:43:57 > 0:44:02THIS is my dear daughter, Constanze. She is the fiance of Herr Mozart!

0:44:02 > 0:44:04Really?

0:44:05 > 0:44:07GIGGLES

0:44:07 > 0:44:10How charming! Please...

0:44:26 > 0:44:28Well,

0:44:28 > 0:44:31when do you marry? >

0:44:31 > 0:44:32Well...er...

0:44:34 > 0:44:41..Well, we haven't exactly received my father's consent yet, not entirely, not altogether.

0:44:42 > 0:44:47Excuse me, but...er... how old ARE you?

0:44:47 > 0:44:52- Twenty-six.- Well, my advice is for you to marry this charming lady,

0:44:52 > 0:44:57and stay with us in Vienna. > You SEE!

0:44:57 > 0:45:03I told him that, Your Majesty, but he wouldn't listen! You give such...ooh...

0:45:03 > 0:45:06< ..ROYAL advice!

0:45:06 > 0:45:08May I...?

0:45:16 > 0:45:19Well... There it is!

0:45:20 > 0:45:21< Water!

0:45:24 > 0:45:28Will you get some water, please!

0:45:33 > 0:45:34Get some water!

0:45:43 > 0:45:45Excuse me. Excuse me.

0:45:53 > 0:45:54Did you know?

0:45:56 > 0:45:57What?

0:45:57 > 0:45:58The marriage?

0:46:00 > 0:46:03What does it matter to you?

0:46:04 > 0:46:07Nothing. He can marry who he pleases. I don't give a damn.

0:46:10 > 0:46:12How was I?

0:46:14 > 0:46:16You were sublime!

0:46:16 > 0:46:18And what did you think of the music?

0:46:20 > 0:46:21Extremely clever.

0:46:23 > 0:46:24Catharina. I...

0:46:25 > 0:46:27Oh. Excuse me.

0:46:27 > 0:46:30Is that woman still lying on the floor?

0:46:31 > 0:46:33No. She's fine.

0:46:33 > 0:46:36Oh. I'm so relieved(!)

0:46:37 > 0:46:40Dear Mozart. My sincere congratulations.

0:46:40 > 0:46:43- Did you like it?- How could I not?

0:46:43 > 0:46:45BRAYS

0:46:45 > 0:46:47It really is the best music one can hear in Vienna today.

0:46:47 > 0:46:50- Don't you agree? - She must be dazzling in bed.

0:46:54 > 0:46:57I assume she is the virtuoso in that department.

0:46:57 > 0:47:00There can't be any other reason why you'd marry someone like that.

0:47:00 > 0:47:02KNOCK ON DOOR

0:47:02 > 0:47:04Come in.

0:47:07 > 0:47:10Excuse me. Wolfie, Mum's not feeling very well.

0:47:10 > 0:47:12- Can we go home now?- Of course.

0:47:12 > 0:47:15No, no, no, no. You can't take him away now.

0:47:15 > 0:47:17This is his night.

0:47:17 > 0:47:21Aren't you going to introduce us, Wolfgang?

0:47:21 > 0:47:23Excuse us, Fraulein. Good night, Signore.

0:47:25 > 0:47:26DOOR SLAMS

0:47:26 > 0:47:33At that moment I knew, beyond any doubt, he'd had her!

0:47:33 > 0:47:38The Creature had had my darling girl.

0:47:44 > 0:47:47It was incomprehensible!

0:47:47 > 0:47:49What was God up to?

0:47:51 > 0:47:53Was it possible I was being tested?

0:47:55 > 0:47:59Was God expecting me to offer...forgiveness

0:47:59 > 0:48:02in the face of every offence?

0:48:02 > 0:48:04No matter how painful?

0:48:07 > 0:48:08It's very possible.

0:48:08 > 0:48:11But why...him?

0:48:11 > 0:48:16Why choose Mozart to teach me lessons in humility?

0:48:17 > 0:48:22My heart was filling up with such hatred for that little man!

0:48:24 > 0:48:28For the first time in my life I began to know...

0:48:28 > 0:48:31..really violent thoughts.

0:48:33 > 0:48:37Every day, sometimes for hours, I would pray.

0:48:39 > 0:48:40Lord...

0:48:42 > 0:48:44Please...

0:48:44 > 0:48:46Send him away.

0:48:46 > 0:48:48Back to Salzburg.

0:48:51 > 0:48:53For his sake,

0:48:53 > 0:48:55as well as mine.

0:48:58 > 0:49:02- No. I won't have him back!- But...

0:49:02 > 0:49:07Your son is an unprincipled, spoiled, conceited brat!

0:49:07 > 0:49:12Yes, sir. That...er... that is the truth.

0:49:12 > 0:49:18But don't blame him. The fault is mine!

0:49:18 > 0:49:23Mine entirely! I was too indulgent with him!

0:49:24 > 0:49:27Your Grace, give him another chance.

0:49:30 > 0:49:32You have leave to try.

0:49:32 > 0:49:37God bless Your Grace! I thank Your Grace! I thank you!

0:49:41 > 0:49:44"I write to you with urgent news.

0:49:44 > 0:49:47"I am coming to Vienna.

0:49:47 > 0:49:51"Take no further steps towards marriage until we meet.

0:49:51 > 0:49:58"As you honour the father who has devoted his life to you, do as I bid."

0:49:58 > 0:50:04KYRIE FROM MOZART'S MASS IN C MINOR

0:50:09 > 0:50:14I now join you in the holy bonds of matrimony.

0:50:14 > 0:50:20Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.

0:50:23 > 0:50:27In nomine Patri et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.

0:50:34 > 0:50:39"Most beloved father, you told me Vienna is the city of musicians,

0:50:39 > 0:50:42"conquer her and conquer Europe.

0:50:42 > 0:50:47"With my wife I can. Soon, when I am wealthy, come and live with us."

0:50:59 > 0:51:04- Ah, Court Composer! This is my niece, Princess Elizabeth.- Your Highness.

0:51:04 > 0:51:12- She asked my advice about a suitable music tutor. I have had an idea. - Oh, Majesty, it would be an honour!

0:51:12 > 0:51:15I was thinking of Herr Mozart.

0:51:15 > 0:51:17What is your view?

0:51:19 > 0:51:22It's an interesting idea, but...

0:51:22 > 0:51:26- Yes?- ..My concern...

0:51:26 > 0:51:32..is to protect you from any hint of favouritism.

0:51:32 > 0:51:34Ah-ha.

0:51:37 > 0:51:39Favouritism.

0:51:39 > 0:51:41- What is this?!- What is what?

0:51:41 > 0:51:49- Why must I submit my work to a committee just to teach her?! - Because His Majesty wishes it.

0:51:50 > 0:51:55- Is the Emperor angry with me? - Quite the contrary.

0:51:55 > 0:52:00- Then why not simply APPOINT me?! - You are not the ONLY composer here.

0:52:00 > 0:52:04No, but I'm the BEST!

0:52:04 > 0:52:06Mozart...

0:52:07 > 0:52:10..a little modesty might suit you.

0:52:18 > 0:52:20Who is on this committee?

0:52:20 > 0:52:25Herr Bonno, Baron Orsini-Rosenberg and Herr Salieri.

0:52:25 > 0:52:30Naturally(!) The Italians! Always the Italians!

0:52:30 > 0:52:33They're all musical IDIOTS!

0:52:33 > 0:52:36And THEY are to judge MY music?!

0:52:36 > 0:52:40Young man, the issue is quite simple.

0:52:41 > 0:52:48- If you want this position, you must submit your stuff along with ALL your colleagues.- Must I?

0:52:49 > 0:52:52Well, I won't.

0:52:52 > 0:52:55How are we supposed to live, Wolfie?

0:52:57 > 0:52:59Do you want me to go on the streets and beg?

0:53:00 > 0:53:01It's stupid.

0:53:02 > 0:53:05- All they want to see is your work. - Shit.

0:53:05 > 0:53:07- What's wrong with that?- Shut up. Just shut up.

0:53:10 > 0:53:14One royal pupil and the whole of Vienna will come flocking.

0:53:14 > 0:53:17They'll come anyway.

0:53:17 > 0:53:18No, they won't.

0:53:19 > 0:53:21They love me here.

0:53:21 > 0:53:22I know how things work in this city.

0:53:22 > 0:53:25You always know everything, don't you?

0:53:30 > 0:53:34SHE SINGS

0:53:53 > 0:53:57- Yes?- Excuse me, sir, there is a lady who insists on talking to you.

0:53:57 > 0:54:00- Who is she?- She didn't say but she said it's urgent.

0:54:03 > 0:54:04Excuse me, my dear.

0:54:10 > 0:54:12Your Excellency.

0:54:13 > 0:54:16How can I help you?

0:54:20 > 0:54:21Frau Mozart?

0:54:21 > 0:54:24I've come on behalf of my husband.

0:54:24 > 0:54:28I've brought samples of his work for consideration.

0:54:29 > 0:54:35Well... How charming, but...er... why did he not come himself?

0:54:35 > 0:54:39Well, he's...terribly busy, sir.

0:54:42 > 0:54:44I understand.

0:54:46 > 0:54:51I'll look at them as soon as I can. It's an honour.

0:54:51 > 0:54:54Give him my warmest regards.

0:54:54 > 0:55:00Would it be too much trouble for you to look at them while I wait?

0:55:00 > 0:55:07I'm afraid I'm not at leisure this moment. Leave them with me. They'll be quite safe.

0:55:08 > 0:55:11I really cannot do that, sir.

0:55:13 > 0:55:17You see...he doesn't know I'm here.

0:55:17 > 0:55:20You mean, he didn't send you?

0:55:20 > 0:55:22No, sir.

0:55:22 > 0:55:24This was my own idea.

0:55:26 > 0:55:28I see.

0:55:28 > 0:55:32Sir, we're desperate. We really need this job!

0:55:32 > 0:55:36My husband spends far more than he earns.

0:55:36 > 0:55:41I don't mean that he's lazy, he works all day!

0:55:41 > 0:55:44It's just that...

0:55:44 > 0:55:51..he's not practical! Money simply slips through his fingers. It's ridiculous!

0:55:53 > 0:55:58Let me offer you some refreshments. Do you know what these are?

0:55:59 > 0:56:04Capezzoli di Venere - nipples of Venus.

0:56:04 > 0:56:07Roman chestnuts in brandied sugar!

0:56:07 > 0:56:10Go on, try one.

0:56:10 > 0:56:12They are quite surprising!

0:56:15 > 0:56:18- Mmm!- Mmm...- They're wonderful!

0:56:20 > 0:56:25- Thank you, Your Excellency. - Don't keep calling me that!

0:56:26 > 0:56:30It keeps me at such a distance!

0:56:30 > 0:56:37I wasn't born a court composer, you know. I'm from a small town, just like your husband.

0:56:40 > 0:56:45Are you sure you can't... leave this and come back again?

0:56:48 > 0:56:53It's very tempting, sir... but it's impossible, I'm afraid.

0:56:53 > 0:56:57Wolfgang would be frantic if he found them missing.

0:56:57 > 0:57:00You see, they're all originals.

0:57:00 > 0:57:04- Originals?- Yes, sir. He doesn't make copies.

0:57:15 > 0:57:19These...are ORIGINALS?

0:57:20 > 0:57:25CONCERTO FOR FLUTE AND HARP

0:57:52 > 0:57:55SYMPHONY NO.29 IN A MAJOR

0:57:55 > 0:57:58Astounding! It was beyond belief!

0:57:58 > 0:58:02These were the first, and ONLY drafts of music!

0:58:05 > 0:58:10- CONCERTO FOR TWO PIANOS - But they had no corrections!

0:58:10 > 0:58:17- SYMPHONIE CONCERTANTE - He had simply written down music already finished...

0:58:17 > 0:58:22- MASS IN C MINOR - ..in his head!

0:58:22 > 0:58:26Page after page, as if he were taking dictation!

0:58:26 > 0:58:31SOPRANO SOLO

0:58:31 > 0:58:37And music finished as no music is EVER finished!

0:58:41 > 0:58:46Displace one note and there would be diminishment.

0:58:46 > 0:58:51Displace one phrase and the structure would fall.

0:58:57 > 0:59:05It was clear that the sound I had heard in the Archbishop's palace had been no accident.

0:59:06 > 0:59:10Here again was the very voice of God.

0:59:16 > 0:59:21I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes...

0:59:21 > 0:59:26..at an Absolute Beauty!

0:59:26 > 0:59:33SOARING NOTES FROM THE KYRIE

0:59:40 > 0:59:42Is it not good?

0:59:47 > 0:59:50It is miraculous!

0:59:54 > 0:59:57Oh, yes! He's very proud of his work.

0:59:59 > 1:00:01So you will help us?

1:00:04 > 1:00:06I dine with the emperor tomorrow evening.

1:00:07 > 1:00:09One word from me and the post is his.

1:00:11 > 1:00:13Oh, thank you, Your Excellency, thank you.

1:00:13 > 1:00:15Come back tonight.

1:00:18 > 1:00:20- Tonight?- Alone.

1:00:22 > 1:00:23What for?

1:00:25 > 1:00:27Some service deserves service in return.

1:00:30 > 1:00:31No?

1:00:33 > 1:00:35What do you mean?

1:00:35 > 1:00:36Isn't it obvious?

1:00:38 > 1:00:39It's a post all Vienna seeks.

1:00:41 > 1:00:44If you wish it for your husband, come tonight.

1:00:45 > 1:00:48I'm a married woman, sir.

1:00:48 > 1:00:49Then don't.

1:00:49 > 1:00:51It's up to you.

1:00:53 > 1:00:56Not to be vague. That is the price.

1:01:08 > 1:01:09There is no God of mercy, Father.

1:01:13 > 1:01:15Just a God of torture.

1:01:22 > 1:01:23Evening came.

1:01:25 > 1:01:27I sat not knowing whether she would return or not.

1:01:30 > 1:01:33I prayed as I had never prayed before.

1:01:35 > 1:01:39Dear God. Enter me now.

1:01:39 > 1:01:43Fill me with one piece of true music.

1:01:45 > 1:01:47One piece with your breath in it

1:01:47 > 1:01:49so I know that you love me.

1:01:50 > 1:01:56Show me one sign of your favour and I will show mine to Mozart.

1:01:56 > 1:01:59I will get him the royal position.

1:01:59 > 1:02:04Enter me. Please.

1:02:06 > 1:02:08Please!

1:02:08 > 1:02:09KNOCK ON DOOR

1:02:14 > 1:02:15Yes.

1:02:20 > 1:02:21That lady is back, sir.

1:02:27 > 1:02:28Show her in.

1:03:00 > 1:03:01- Well?- Huh?

1:03:03 > 1:03:04I'm here.

1:03:08 > 1:03:10My husband has gone to a concert.

1:03:12 > 1:03:14He didn't think I would enjoy it.

1:03:25 > 1:03:27Well, where shall we go?

1:03:29 > 1:03:31Should we stay here?

1:03:33 > 1:03:34Well...

1:03:38 > 1:03:40Do you still want to look at these?

1:03:44 > 1:03:45Or don't we need to bother any more?

1:03:49 > 1:03:51I suppose we don't, really.

1:04:36 > 1:04:38BELL RINGS

1:04:46 > 1:04:48Show this woman out.

1:05:09 > 1:05:10Stanzi.

1:05:12 > 1:05:13Stanzi.

1:05:19 > 1:05:20What is it?

1:05:20 > 1:05:21SOBS

1:05:21 > 1:05:23What's the matter?

1:05:23 > 1:05:24Tell me.

1:05:29 > 1:05:30Tell me.

1:05:30 > 1:05:33SOBS

1:05:36 > 1:05:38I love you.

1:05:38 > 1:05:41I love you.

1:05:41 > 1:05:48From now on, we are enemies... You and I!

1:05:48 > 1:05:56Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy,

1:05:56 > 1:06:01and give me for reward only the ability to recognise him!

1:06:01 > 1:06:08Because You are unjust... unfair...unkind!

1:06:08 > 1:06:13I will block You! I SWEAR it!

1:06:15 > 1:06:20I will harm Your creature on earth as FAR as I am able!

1:06:20 > 1:06:22Majesty, I don't like to talk against a fellow musician.

1:06:22 > 1:06:24Of course not.

1:06:24 > 1:06:26I have to tell you.

1:06:28 > 1:06:32Mozart is not entirely to be trusted alone with young ladies.

1:06:34 > 1:06:36- Really? - As a matter of fact,

1:06:36 > 1:06:39one of my own pupils, a very young singer,

1:06:39 > 1:06:44Maria Theresa Paradis, told me she was...

1:06:45 > 1:06:47Well...

1:06:50 > 1:06:52Well, what?

1:06:52 > 1:06:54Molested, Majesty.

1:06:54 > 1:06:58Twice, in the course of the same lesson.

1:07:03 > 1:07:05Sir. There is a Herr Mozart waiting for you in the salon.

1:07:10 > 1:07:11Whom did they choose?

1:07:11 > 1:07:13Herr Zammer.

1:07:13 > 1:07:15Herr Zammer?

1:07:15 > 1:07:16But the man's a fool.

1:07:16 > 1:07:18He's a total mediocrity.

1:07:18 > 1:07:20No, no, no.

1:07:20 > 1:07:23He has yet to achieve mediocrity.

1:07:23 > 1:07:25LAUGHS

1:07:26 > 1:07:28I can't lose this post.

1:07:28 > 1:07:29I simply can't.

1:07:31 > 1:07:33Excellency, please.

1:07:33 > 1:07:35Let's go to the palace

1:07:35 > 1:07:36and you can talk to the emperor

1:07:36 > 1:07:40and tell him that Herr Zammer is an awful choice.

1:07:42 > 1:07:45He could actually do musical harm to the Princess Elizabeth.

1:07:45 > 1:07:47Between you and me, no-one in the world

1:07:47 > 1:07:49could do musical harm to the Princess Elizabeth.

1:07:49 > 1:07:52LAUGHS

1:07:54 > 1:07:56Look. I must have pupils.

1:07:56 > 1:07:59Without pupils, I can't manage.

1:08:01 > 1:08:02You don't mean to tell me that

1:08:02 > 1:08:03you're living in poverty?

1:08:03 > 1:08:06No. But I'm broke.

1:08:06 > 1:08:09Well, how is this possible?

1:08:10 > 1:08:11You give concerts, don't you?

1:08:11 > 1:08:13I hear they're quite successful.

1:08:13 > 1:08:15They're stupendously successful.

1:08:16 > 1:08:17You can't get a seat.

1:08:17 > 1:08:20The only trouble is no-one will hire me.

1:08:20 > 1:08:23They all want to hear me play but they won't let me teach

1:08:23 > 1:08:25their daughters, as if I was some kind of a fiend.

1:08:25 > 1:08:27LAUGHS

1:08:31 > 1:08:35Seriously, is there any chance you could manage a loan?

1:08:38 > 1:08:40Only for six months.

1:08:40 > 1:08:41Eight at the most.

1:08:41 > 1:08:45You expect your fortunes to change in six or eight months?

1:08:46 > 1:08:47As a matter of fact, I do.

1:08:50 > 1:08:53I am working on something that is going to explode like a bombshell

1:08:53 > 1:08:55all over Europe.

1:08:55 > 1:08:57After that, I'll be the richest man in Vienna.

1:08:57 > 1:08:58I'll pay you back double. Anything.

1:09:00 > 1:09:01You name the terms.

1:09:01 > 1:09:03How exciting.

1:09:05 > 1:09:08- Tell me more.- Oh, I...

1:09:09 > 1:09:10I better not. It's a bit of a secret.

1:09:10 > 1:09:12Come come, Mozart. I am interested.

1:09:12 > 1:09:13This is delicious. What is it?

1:09:13 > 1:09:18Oh. It's cream cheese, mixed with granulated sugar,

1:09:18 > 1:09:20suffused with rum.

1:09:20 > 1:09:21Crema mascarpone.

1:09:21 > 1:09:23Speciale.

1:09:23 > 1:09:24Italian.

1:09:25 > 1:09:29Forgive me. We all have patriotic feelings of some kind.

1:09:29 > 1:09:33Two... Two hundred florins, that's all I need.

1:09:37 > 1:09:38A hundred.

1:09:40 > 1:09:42Fifty.

1:09:43 > 1:09:44What exactly are you working on?

1:09:47 > 1:09:50I... I... Really, I can't say.

1:09:52 > 1:09:55I don't think you should be come known in Vienna

1:09:55 > 1:09:57as a debtor, Mozart.

1:10:04 > 1:10:08However. However. I know a very distinguished gentleman

1:10:08 > 1:10:09that I can recommend to you.

1:10:09 > 1:10:11And, he has a daughter.

1:10:11 > 1:10:14DOGS BARK

1:10:17 > 1:10:20Quiet! Quiet! Herr Mozart.

1:10:22 > 1:10:24Pay no attention. They're impossible.

1:10:24 > 1:10:25Just ignore them.

1:10:25 > 1:10:27Treat them just like my own children.

1:10:29 > 1:10:30Which of them do you wish me to teach?

1:10:34 > 1:10:36Ha! Ha! That's funny!

1:10:36 > 1:10:38LAUGHS

1:10:38 > 1:10:41You're a funny fellow!

1:10:41 > 1:10:43This is the instrument, Herr Mozart.

1:10:43 > 1:10:45I hope it will be to your satisfaction.

1:10:45 > 1:10:47Of course it'll be to his satisfaction.

1:10:47 > 1:10:49Come! Come! Let's listen to some music.

1:10:49 > 1:10:52Come! Come on!

1:10:53 > 1:10:55Good boy!

1:11:00 > 1:11:04Now. Please play me something, just to give me an idea.

1:11:07 > 1:11:09Anything will do.

1:11:09 > 1:11:13Just go ahead. Just as if we weren't here!

1:11:13 > 1:11:15DOGS BARK

1:11:15 > 1:11:18Part of music, getting used to an audience.

1:11:18 > 1:11:19Aren't I right, Herr Mozart?

1:11:20 > 1:11:23Perhaps it would be better if we were left alone.

1:11:24 > 1:11:27- I think we're both a little shy. - Play.

1:11:27 > 1:11:29- I said play!- Michael!

1:11:29 > 1:11:33- Please.- Perhaps if I were to play something first

1:11:33 > 1:11:34it would encourage the fraulein.

1:11:44 > 1:11:48DOG HOWLS

1:11:48 > 1:11:51Stop it! Stop! He always howls when he hears music.

1:11:51 > 1:11:53He's got to break that habit.

1:11:53 > 1:11:56Yes. We've got to break that habit.

1:11:57 > 1:11:59Play, please, please.

1:11:59 > 1:12:00Herr Mozart, play.

1:12:00 > 1:12:02Please. I beg you.

1:12:10 > 1:12:11That's it. That's it.

1:12:15 > 1:12:16Play!

1:12:23 > 1:12:26Keep playing! That's it! That's it!

1:12:30 > 1:12:34DOGS BARK

1:12:45 > 1:12:47Mozart, that's wonderful! Wonderful!

1:12:48 > 1:12:51Well, next time you wish me to instruct

1:12:51 > 1:12:53another one of your dogs, please let me know.

1:12:53 > 1:12:55Goodbye, Fraulein, goodbye Madam, goodbye, Sir.

1:12:59 > 1:13:00DOG BARKS

1:13:51 > 1:13:52Papa?

1:13:52 > 1:13:57CRASHING OPENING CHORDS OF 'DON GIOVANNI'

1:13:57 > 1:13:59Papa!

1:14:02 > 1:14:05- Why are you here?- Am I not welcome?

1:14:05 > 1:14:07Of course welcome.

1:14:07 > 1:14:11Papa! Welcome! Welcome!

1:14:13 > 1:14:15TINKLE OF GLASS

1:14:30 > 1:14:35You are thin. Doesn't your wife feed you?

1:14:35 > 1:14:39Of course she does! She stuffs me like a goose!

1:14:39 > 1:14:46- <- Is she not here? - No, she had to help her mother. She's like that.

1:14:46 > 1:14:48Her mother's sweet, you'll...

1:14:52 > 1:14:55NERVOUS GIGGLE

1:14:55 > 1:15:01I didn't know you were home... ..Stanzi, this is my father.

1:15:04 > 1:15:07We'll wait. We'll wait!

1:15:08 > 1:15:12(Why don't you get UP, now, dear!)

1:15:19 > 1:15:23She's tired. You know me - I'm such a pig!

1:15:23 > 1:15:28- It's hard cleaning after me! - Don't you have a maid?

1:15:28 > 1:15:36Oh, no. We could if we wanted, but Stanzi wouldn't hear of it. She insists on doing it herself!

1:15:36 > 1:15:39How is your...er...

1:15:40 > 1:15:43..financial situation?

1:15:43 > 1:15:46Couldn't be better!

1:15:46 > 1:15:48That's not what I hear.

1:15:48 > 1:15:54What do you mean? It's marvellous! Really. People love me here.

1:15:55 > 1:15:57They say you have debts.

1:15:59 > 1:16:02Who...? Who says that?!

1:16:02 > 1:16:06- That's a malicious lie! - Do you have pupils?

1:16:07 > 1:16:10I don't WANT pupils!

1:16:10 > 1:16:13They get in the way!

1:16:14 > 1:16:17I need time for composition!

1:16:17 > 1:16:20Composition doesn't pay!

1:16:20 > 1:16:24- You know that.- That one will. - What is that?

1:16:25 > 1:16:28It's a secret.

1:16:28 > 1:16:31Secret(!) You don't have secrets from ME.

1:16:31 > 1:16:34No! No, no, no!

1:16:35 > 1:16:38I don't want anyone to see it!

1:16:38 > 1:16:43But you'll be so proud of me, Papa. It will be the best thing...

1:16:45 > 1:16:51There she is! Look at her! Isn't she beautiful?!

1:16:51 > 1:16:56- Father, confess, could you find a prettier daughter-in-law?- Stop!

1:16:57 > 1:17:03- I look dreadful! - Are you...er...expecting?

1:17:05 > 1:17:09- Yes, I am.- Isn't it marvellous? We're delighted!

1:17:09 > 1:17:14- Would you like tea, Herr Mozart? - Who wants tea? Let's go out!

1:17:14 > 1:17:17This calls for a feast!

1:17:17 > 1:17:22- Wolfie...!- I know! Let's go dancing. Papa loves parties!- Wolfie!

1:17:22 > 1:17:25How can you be so boring? Tea(!)

1:17:25 > 1:17:31GENISSARIES MARCH FROM 'ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO'

1:17:48 > 1:17:53MUSIC: 'THE KAISER MARCH'

1:18:22 > 1:18:24'I name the penalty!'

1:18:27 > 1:18:32- It is...- Make it good! - ..show your legs!

1:18:50 > 1:18:52It's just a game, Papa.

1:19:24 > 1:19:28- No! No! - BRAYS

1:19:31 > 1:19:36Herr Mozart, why don't you name your son's penalty?

1:19:37 > 1:19:43Yes, Papa... Name it. I'll do anything you say!

1:19:45 > 1:19:48I want you to come back to Salzburg.

1:19:48 > 1:19:54Papa! You have to give a penalty that can be performed in the room!

1:19:54 > 1:19:59- I'm tired of this game.- My penalty! I've GOT to have one!

1:20:04 > 1:20:07'I'll name a penalty!'

1:20:11 > 1:20:16'Your penalty is to play a tune in the manner of Bach!'

1:20:44 > 1:20:47Now, turn him over! Turn him over!

1:20:47 > 1:20:50Now, play it backwards!

1:20:57 > 1:21:02HE PLAYS IT BACKWARDS FAULTLESSLY

1:21:18 > 1:21:20Give me another one!

1:21:20 > 1:21:23- Play it like Gluck!- Boring!

1:21:23 > 1:21:27- Play Handel.- I don't like him! Another one!

1:21:27 > 1:21:29Salieri.

1:21:29 > 1:21:32Now, THAT...is a challenge!

1:21:32 > 1:21:34That IS a challenge.

1:21:34 > 1:21:37- RASPBERRIES - Please...please!

1:21:42 > 1:21:46PLAYS LUMBERINGLY

1:21:58 > 1:22:01FARTS

1:22:10 > 1:22:13Go on! Mock me! Laugh!

1:22:18 > 1:22:20That was not Mozart laughing.

1:22:20 > 1:22:27That was God. That was GOD laughing at me through that obscene giggle!

1:22:29 > 1:22:32Go on, Signore, LAUGH!

1:22:32 > 1:22:35Show my mediocrity for all to see!

1:22:37 > 1:22:39One day I will laugh at You.

1:22:43 > 1:22:48Before I leave this earth I will laugh at YOU!

1:23:10 > 1:23:13- Wolfie...?- What?

1:23:13 > 1:23:16There's a young girl here to see you.

1:23:16 > 1:23:22- Well, what does she want? - She won't talk to me. She wants to talk to you.

1:23:23 > 1:23:25Damn!

1:23:29 > 1:23:31Yes?

1:23:32 > 1:23:34Are you Herr Mozart?

1:23:34 > 1:23:36Yes.

1:23:37 > 1:23:40My name is Lorl, sir.

1:23:40 > 1:23:44I'm a maid. I was asked to offer you my services.

1:23:44 > 1:23:52They will be paid for by a great admirer of yours who wishes to remain anonymous.

1:23:52 > 1:23:55Is this your idea, Papa?

1:23:56 > 1:24:01- Mine?- Is this a trick on me? - I've never seen this girl before!

1:24:03 > 1:24:06- Is this some joke?- Not at all, sir!

1:24:06 > 1:24:09Young woman, this won't do at all!

1:24:09 > 1:24:15My son cannot accept such an offer unless he knows who is behind it.

1:24:15 > 1:24:19- But I can't tell you that, sir. - It's ridiculous!

1:24:19 > 1:24:21What?

1:24:22 > 1:24:28Wolfie has many admirers in Vienna. They send us gifts often.

1:24:28 > 1:24:31But she has no references!

1:24:31 > 1:24:33This is none of your business.

1:24:33 > 1:24:38Whoever sent you will pay, no? < That's right, ma'am.

1:24:38 > 1:24:42Splendid(!) We'll let strangers into our house!

1:24:42 > 1:24:45Who is "WE"?! Who is letting...?

1:24:46 > 1:24:51Could you please wait outside? Er...yes, ma'am.

1:24:53 > 1:24:58'Look, old man! We spend a fortune on you and all you do is criticise!'

1:24:58 > 1:25:01- You just...- Stanzi!- He SHOULD hear!

1:25:01 > 1:25:07I'm SICK of it! We can't do ANYTHING right for you, can we?!

1:25:07 > 1:25:13You won't have to do anything for me AGAIN! I'm leaving!

1:25:13 > 1:25:18- Papa!- I won't be a BURDEN to you! - No-one calls you that!

1:25:18 > 1:25:24- SHE does! She says I sleep all day! - And so you DO!

1:25:24 > 1:25:30- The only time you come out is to eat!- What do you expect?!

1:25:31 > 1:25:37Do you expect anyone to walk out into a MESS like THIS every day?!

1:25:37 > 1:25:42- So now I'm a bad housekeeper?! - You are! The place is like a pigsty all the time!

1:25:44 > 1:25:46When can you start? Right away, ma'am.

1:25:52 > 1:26:00'AH TUTTI CONTENTI' FROM 'THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO' PLAYS IN HIS HEAD, DROWNING THE ROW

1:26:14 > 1:26:17They are out every night, sir.

1:26:17 > 1:26:20Thank you, sir.

1:26:20 > 1:26:24Do any pupils come to the house?

1:26:25 > 1:26:28Not that I've seen.

1:26:28 > 1:26:30Then how does he pay for all this?

1:26:30 > 1:26:33Does he work at all?

1:26:33 > 1:26:37Oh, YES, sir, all day long!

1:26:37 > 1:26:42He never leaves the house till night. He just sits there, writing.

1:26:42 > 1:26:44Really?

1:26:45 > 1:26:48What is it he's writing?

1:26:50 > 1:26:53I wouldn't know that, sir.

1:26:53 > 1:26:59Of course not. You're a good girl. You're very kind to do this.

1:26:59 > 1:27:06The next time you are sure they'll be out of the house, let me know.

1:27:11 > 1:27:13Thank you, sir!

1:27:38 > 1:27:43PLAYS PIANO CONCERTO IN E FLAT

1:28:48 > 1:28:52I think I've found out about the money, sir.

1:28:52 > 1:28:55Yes? What?

1:28:55 > 1:29:00He kept seven snuff-boxes in here. I could swear they were all gold.

1:29:00 > 1:29:07- And now, look, there's only one left. - Where does he work?

1:29:09 > 1:29:10There.

1:29:55 > 1:29:59Gentlemen, I have heard something interesting.

1:30:01 > 1:30:06- What?- Mozart is writing a new opera. An Italian opera.

1:30:07 > 1:30:11- Italian?!- Oh! - And that's not all.

1:30:11 > 1:30:14His subject is...Figaro!

1:30:14 > 1:30:17The marriage of Figaro.

1:30:17 > 1:30:21He is setting THAT play to music?!

1:30:21 > 1:30:22Yes.

1:30:22 > 1:30:27Er...what is this "Marriage of Figaro"?

1:30:27 > 1:30:30It's a French play, Kapellmeister.

1:30:30 > 1:30:33It has been BANNED by the Emperor.

1:30:33 > 1:30:36You are absolutely sure?

1:30:39 > 1:30:42'Herr Mozart.'

1:30:42 > 1:30:44Gentlemen, sit down.

1:30:50 > 1:30:57Mozart, are you aware that I have declared the play "Figaro" unsuitable for our theatre?

1:30:59 > 1:31:01Yes, Sire.

1:31:01 > 1:31:05Yet we hear you are making an opera from it.

1:31:05 > 1:31:08< Is this true?

1:31:09 > 1:31:11Who told you this, Majesty?

1:31:11 > 1:31:16It is not your place to ask questions.

1:31:16 > 1:31:21- Is it true?- Well, yes, I admit it is.

1:31:23 > 1:31:25Would you tell me why?

1:31:25 > 1:31:31Well... Majesty, it is only a comedy!

1:31:31 > 1:31:36That's YOUR opinion! His Majesty's opinion is what counts!

1:31:36 > 1:31:39But, Your Majesty...!

1:31:40 > 1:31:43Mozart, I am a tolerant man.

1:31:43 > 1:31:50I do not censor things lightly. When I do, I have good reason!

1:31:50 > 1:31:56"Figaro" is a BAD play. It stirs up hatred between the classes.

1:31:56 > 1:32:03In France it has caused trouble. My sister, Antoinette, is frightened of her own people!

1:32:04 > 1:32:09Sire, I swear, I have taken out everything that may give offence!

1:32:09 > 1:32:12I...I HATE politics!

1:32:12 > 1:32:15I'm afraid you're rather innocent.

1:32:15 > 1:32:23In these dangerous times, I cannot afford to provoke our nobles or people simply over a theatre piece!

1:32:23 > 1:32:26Majesty, this is just a frolic!

1:32:26 > 1:32:29- It's about love!- Love, again(!)

1:32:30 > 1:32:36And it's new! It's entirely new! It's SO new, the people will go mad for it!

1:32:36 > 1:32:39I have scenes...!

1:32:39 > 1:32:46The end of the second half starts as a duet, just a husband and wife quarrelling.

1:32:46 > 1:32:50Suddenly, the wife's scheming maid comes in...

1:32:50 > 1:32:53..duet turns into trio.

1:32:53 > 1:32:58Then the husband's valet comes in, trio turns into quartet!

1:32:58 > 1:33:03Then a stupid gardener comes in, quartet becomes quintet!

1:33:03 > 1:33:08And on and on! Sextet, septet... How long can I sustain that, Sire?

1:33:08 > 1:33:11I have no idea.

1:33:11 > 1:33:14Guess, Sire!

1:33:14 > 1:33:18Imagine the longest time it could be sustained

1:33:18 > 1:33:21and then DOUBLE it!

1:33:21 > 1:33:24Well...six...

1:33:25 > 1:33:27< ..seven minutes.

1:33:29 > 1:33:34- Eight minutes? - Twenty, Sire! Twenty minutes!

1:33:34 > 1:33:39Twenty minutes of continuous music! No recitatives!

1:33:39 > 1:33:41MOZART GIGGLES

1:33:41 > 1:33:48Only opera can do this! In a play, if people speak together, it's NOISE, no-one can understand!

1:33:48 > 1:33:51But with opera, with MUSIC...

1:33:51 > 1:33:58..you can have 20 individuals talking at once and it's not noise, it's a perfect harmony!

1:34:00 > 1:34:06Music is not the issue. It's your judgement of literature that is in question.

1:34:06 > 1:34:13< Even with the politics removed, this thing would still remain a vulgar farce.

1:34:13 > 1:34:18Why waste your spirit on this? You COULD choose elevated themes.

1:34:18 > 1:34:22Oh, ELEVATED(!) What does that mean?

1:34:22 > 1:34:28I am fed to the TEETH with all of these...ELEVATED things!

1:34:28 > 1:34:30Old dead legends(!)

1:34:30 > 1:34:37- Why must we go on forever writing about them?! - Because THEY do.

1:34:37 > 1:34:40They go on FOREVER!

1:34:40 > 1:34:43They represent the eternal in US!

1:34:43 > 1:34:47< Opera is here to enoble us!

1:34:47 > 1:34:50You and me, just like His Majesty.

1:34:50 > 1:34:53Bello, bello! Veramente.

1:34:53 > 1:34:58Oh, bello(!) Come on, be honest...

1:34:58 > 1:35:04..who wouldn't rather listen to his hairdresser than Hercules, or Orpheus?!

1:35:04 > 1:35:08People so lofty, they shit marble!

1:35:09 > 1:35:10WHAT?!

1:35:10 > 1:35:14GIGGLES Hold your tongue, Mozart!

1:35:18 > 1:35:21Forgive me, Majesty.

1:35:23 > 1:35:28I am a vulgar man... but, I assure you, my music is not!

1:35:31 > 1:35:34You ARE passionate, Mozart.

1:35:37 > 1:35:39But, you do not...persuade.

1:35:42 > 1:35:44Sire, the whole opera is finished.

1:35:44 > 1:35:47Do you know how much WORK that is?

1:35:49 > 1:35:54His Majesty has been more than patient, signore.

1:35:54 > 1:36:02- How can I persuade you, if you won't let me show it? - That will do, Herr Mozart.

2:59:50 > 2:59:57.

3:00:02 > 3:00:04Just let me tell you how it begins!

3:00:04 > 3:00:07May I just show you that, Majesty?

3:00:07 > 3:00:09Just that?

3:00:13 > 3:00:15Please.

3:00:15 > 3:00:20Look, there's a servant down on his knees.

3:00:20 > 3:00:24Why? Not from oppression - he's measuring a space.

3:00:24 > 3:00:29Do you know what for...? His bed! His wedding bed!

3:00:29 > 3:00:32To see if it will fit!

3:00:32 > 3:00:36OPENING OF "THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO"

3:00:40 > 3:00:42- Cinque...- Late!

3:00:43 > 3:00:45- Dieci!- Late!

3:00:45 > 3:00:48- On the beat!- Venti!- Good!

3:00:49 > 3:00:52- Trenta!- Yes.

3:00:52 > 3:00:55- Trentasei!- Yes.

3:00:55 > 3:00:57Quarantatre!

3:00:57 > 3:01:04- # Orasi...- Early! - ..ch'io son contenta... #

3:01:04 > 3:01:07Well, Mozart is already rehearsing.

3:01:12 > 3:01:17In that case, gentlemen, I think...

3:01:19 > 3:01:21..we should help Mozart all we can.

3:01:24 > 3:01:29And do our best to protect him against the Emperor's anger.

3:01:29 > 3:01:32- What anger?- About the ballet.

3:01:34 > 3:01:36What ballet?

3:01:36 > 3:01:44Excuse me, but...didn't His Majesty specifically forbid the ballet in his opera?

3:01:44 > 3:01:49'ECCO LA MARCIA' FROM 'THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO'

3:02:17 > 3:02:19Mozart...

3:02:19 > 3:02:23- Herr Mozart...!- Yes? - A word, please.

3:02:23 > 3:02:25Certainly, Director.

3:02:25 > 3:02:27Now, Mozart!

3:02:27 > 3:02:31Five minutes, please. Five minutes!

3:02:33 > 3:02:40- Yes?- Do you not know that His Majesty has expressly forbidden ballet in his operas?

3:02:40 > 3:02:45It's not a ballet, it's Figaro's wedding dance.

3:02:45 > 3:02:48Surely His Majesty didn't mean dancing that's part of the story?

3:02:48 > 3:02:53It's dangerous to interpret edicts. Give me your score, please.

3:03:02 > 3:03:04Thank you.

3:03:07 > 3:03:10What are you doing, Herr Director?

3:03:10 > 3:03:15- What are you doing?! - Taking out what should not be in.

3:03:15 > 3:03:19Please... Please, I've no-one else to turn to.

3:03:19 > 3:03:26- What is it?- It's unbelievable. Herr Director has torn up parts of my music!

3:03:26 > 3:03:30They say I have to rewrite the opera!

3:03:30 > 3:03:33But it's PERFECT as it is!

3:03:34 > 3:03:37I can't rewrite what's perfect!

3:03:39 > 3:03:42Please... Can't you talk to them?

3:03:43 > 3:03:48- Please!- Why bother with Rosenberg? He's obviously no friend of yours.

3:03:48 > 3:03:51I could KILL him! REALLY kill him!

3:03:53 > 3:03:59- I threw the whole score on the fire, I was so angry!- You BURNED it?

3:04:00 > 3:04:03No. My wife took it out in time.

3:04:04 > 3:04:06Thank God.

3:04:06 > 3:04:11THAT man should not have power over our work!

3:04:13 > 3:04:16Others have power over him.

3:04:18 > 3:04:22I think I'll take this up with the Emperor.

3:04:22 > 3:04:24Excellency...

3:04:24 > 3:04:27..would you?

3:04:27 > 3:04:30With all my heart, Mozart.

3:04:32 > 3:04:35Oh, thank you! Thank you!

3:04:35 > 3:04:40Please, Herr Mozart. "This is not a holy relic!"

3:04:40 > 3:04:41GIGGLES

3:04:41 > 3:04:46I don't need to tell you I said nothing whatever to the Emperor.

3:04:46 > 3:04:49I went to the theatre to see Mozart.

3:04:49 > 3:04:53'ECCO LA MARCIA' PERFORMED WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT

3:04:53 > 3:04:57Then, suddenly, in the middle of the third act,

3:04:57 > 3:05:03to my astonishment, the Emperor, who never saw rehearsals, appeared!

3:05:10 > 3:05:15THEY DANCE IN SILENCE

3:05:21 > 3:05:23What is this?

3:05:27 > 3:05:31I don't understand. Is it modern?

3:05:32 > 3:05:37Majesty, Herr Direttore has removed uno balleto

3:05:37 > 3:05:42that would have occurred at this place.

3:05:43 > 3:05:47- Why?- It is your regulations, Sire.

3:05:47 > 3:05:49No ballet in your opera.

3:05:56 > 3:05:57Salieri...

3:05:58 > 3:06:01..do YOU like this?

3:06:03 > 3:06:08It's not a question of liking. Your law decrees it.

3:06:10 > 3:06:13Well, LOOK at them!

3:06:15 > 3:06:19Oh, no, no, no! This is nonsense!

3:06:19 > 3:06:23- Let me see the scene with the music. - But, Sire...

3:06:23 > 3:06:26- Oblige me!- Yes, Your Majesty.

3:06:35 > 3:06:42- Can we see the scene with the music BACK, please? - Certainly, Herr Director!

3:06:48 > 3:06:50Bring the palace set back in!

3:06:50 > 3:06:54WEDDING DANCE

3:07:26 > 3:07:31The restored third act was bold, brilliant!

3:07:31 > 3:07:33The fourth...

3:07:35 > 3:07:38..was astounding!

3:07:38 > 3:07:42'AH TUTTI CONTENTI' FROM 'THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO'

3:07:46 > 3:07:50I saw a woman, disguised in her maid's clothes,

3:07:50 > 3:07:56hear her husband speak the first tender words to her in years

3:07:56 > 3:07:59because he thinks she is someone else.

3:07:59 > 3:08:06I heard the music of full forgiveness FILLING the theatre,

3:08:06 > 3:08:11conferring, on all who sat there, perfect absolution.

3:08:11 > 3:08:18God was singing through this little man to all the world.

3:08:18 > 3:08:23Unstoppable! Making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar.

3:08:27 > 3:08:33# Ah tutti contenti

3:08:34 > 3:08:41# Saremo cosi,

3:08:42 > 3:08:50# Saremo cosi,

3:08:50 > 3:09:02# Ah tu-tti contenti saremo cosi, # Ah tutti contenti saremo cosi... #

3:09:02 > 3:09:05Then, do you know what happened?

3:09:08 > 3:09:09A miracle!

3:09:16 > 3:09:20That yawn turned my defeat into victory!

3:09:27 > 3:09:35And Mozart was lucky the Emperor yawned only once! Three yawns and the opera failed that night!

3:09:35 > 3:09:42Two yawns was a week at most. But with one yawn, the composer could still get...

3:09:44 > 3:09:47NINE performances, and withdrawn!

3:09:48 > 3:09:52I know...I know! It's outrageous.

3:09:53 > 3:09:58Still, if the public doesn't like one's work...

3:09:58 > 3:10:03- ..one must accept it. - But WHAT is it they don't like?!

3:10:03 > 3:10:09I can speak for the Emperor. You demand too much from the Royal ear!

3:10:09 > 3:10:14The man can't concentrate for more than an hour - you gave him FOUR!

3:10:19 > 3:10:22What did you think of it?

3:10:22 > 3:10:24Did you like it at all?

3:10:25 > 3:10:28I thought it was marvellous.

3:10:29 > 3:10:33Of course! It's the best opera yet written!

3:10:33 > 3:10:36I KNOW it!

3:10:37 > 3:10:40Why didn't they come?

3:10:40 > 3:10:45I think you overestimate our dear Viennese, my friend!

3:10:45 > 3:10:51You didn't have a bang after songs to let them know when to clap!

3:10:53 > 3:10:57I know! Maybe you should give me some lessons in that!

3:10:58 > 3:11:01(I wouldn't presume.)

3:11:05 > 3:11:10However, at the risk of imposing, I'd like you to see my new piece.

3:11:12 > 3:11:17- It would be a great honour for me. - Oh, no. The honour is all mine!

3:11:19 > 3:11:22Grazie, Wolfgang.

3:11:22 > 3:11:25Grazie a lei, Signor Antonio.

3:11:28 > 3:11:34DRAMATIC, MAJESTIC AND ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE FINALE

3:12:27 > 3:12:30TUMULTUOUS APPLAUSE

3:12:40 > 3:12:42I believe...

3:12:44 > 3:12:48..it is the BEST opera yet written!

3:12:52 > 3:12:59Salieri, you are the brightest star in the musical firmament.

3:12:59 > 3:13:01You bring honour to Vienna and me!

3:13:26 > 3:13:28Herr Mozart!

3:13:28 > 3:13:32- Good of you to come. - How could I not?

3:13:32 > 3:13:36H...h...how... Did my work please you?

3:13:38 > 3:13:42I never knew that music like that was possible!

3:13:43 > 3:13:45You flatter me.

3:13:45 > 3:13:53No. One hears such sounds and what can one say but...Salieri!

3:13:57 > 3:13:59< MOZART'S LAUGH

3:13:59 > 3:14:03Oh! Everybody's here! We've got guests!

3:14:03 > 3:14:08I've brought more! Stanzi, you remember my friend Schikaneder?

3:14:08 > 3:14:13Come in! Don't be shy! This is a very nice girl...

3:14:13 > 3:14:18- And this is also...- Wolfie? - Yes, my love?

3:14:18 > 3:14:22- These gentlemen are from Salzburg. - Salzburg?!

3:14:22 > 3:14:26- We were just TALKING of Salzburg! - Wolfie...

3:14:27 > 3:14:30Your father is dead.

3:14:34 > 3:14:41CRASHING CHORDS FROM 'DON GIOVANNI' SIGNALLING THE COMMENDATORE'S ENTRY

3:14:52 > 3:14:57So rose the dreadful ghost from his next, and blackest, opera.

3:15:03 > 3:15:07On stage, stood a dead commander.

3:15:07 > 3:15:10- And I knew...only- I- understood

3:15:10 > 3:15:16that the horrifying apparition was Leopold raised from the dead!

3:15:16 > 3:15:22# Ma faro quelche potro.

3:15:22 > 3:15:26# Leporello, un altra cena

3:15:26 > 3:15:30# Fache subito si porti! # Ah, padron!

3:15:30 > 3:15:36# Ah, padron! Siam tutti morti!

3:15:36 > 3:15:39# Vanne, dico!

3:15:39 > 3:15:44# Ferma un po... #

3:15:45 > 3:15:47Mozart had summoned up his father

3:15:47 > 3:15:52to accuse his son before all the world!

3:15:53 > 3:15:58It was...terrifying AND wonderful to watch.

3:15:58 > 3:16:10# Chi si pasce di cibo celeste.

3:16:11 > 3:16:17# Altre cure

3:16:17 > 3:16:23# Piu gravi di queste,

3:16:24 > 3:16:30# Altra brama

3:16:30 > 3:16:39# Quaggiu mi guido!

3:16:39 > 3:16:43# Parla dunque: che chiedi?

3:16:43 > 3:16:47# La terzana d'avere mi sembra...

3:16:47 > 3:16:52# Parlo, ascoltu,

3:16:52 > 3:16:58# Piu tempo non ho... #

3:16:58 > 3:17:02- THE SCENE BUILDS TO A CRESCENDO - And now...

3:17:07 > 3:17:10..the madness began in me!

3:17:12 > 3:17:16The madness of a man split in half!

3:17:16 > 3:17:23Through my influence, I saw to it that 'Don Giovanni' was played only five times.

3:17:23 > 3:17:29But, in secret, I went to EVERY ONE of those five!

3:17:29 > 3:17:35Worshipping the sound that I alone seemed to hear!

3:17:35 > 3:17:38# Cos'hai? # Che gelo e questo mai!

3:17:39 > 3:17:45# Pentiti, cangia vita; e l'ultimo momento!

3:17:45 > 3:17:50# No, no, ch'io non me pento,

3:17:50 > 3:17:54# Vanne lontan da me!

3:17:54 > 3:17:58# Pentiti, scellerato!

3:17:58 > 3:18:02# No, vecchio infatuato!

3:18:02 > 3:18:05# Pentiti! # No!

3:18:05 > 3:18:08# Pentiti! # No!

3:18:08 > 3:18:12# Si! # No!

3:18:12 > 3:18:14# Si! # No!

3:18:14 > 3:18:18# Si! # Si! # No!

3:18:18 > 3:18:20# No! #

3:18:20 > 3:18:23As I stood there, I understood.

3:18:23 > 3:18:31That bitter old man was still possessing his son, even from BEYOND the grave!

3:18:31 > 3:18:38I began to see a way, a TERRIBLE way, I could finally triumph over God!

3:18:40 > 3:18:44# Di foco pien d'orror?

3:18:44 > 3:18:48# Tutto a tue colpe e poco,

3:18:49 > 3:18:55# Vieni, c'e un mal peggior! # Chi l'anima mi lacera?

3:18:55 > 3:18:59# Che ceffo disperato!

3:18:59 > 3:19:03# Che starzio ohime, che smania!

3:19:03 > 3:19:07# Che inferno! # Come mi fa terror!

3:19:07 > 3:19:13# Tutto a tue colpe e poco! # Chi l'anima mi lacera?

3:19:13 > 3:19:19# Vieni, c'e un mal peggior! # Chi m'agita le viscere?

3:19:19 > 3:19:23# Che strazio, ohime, che smania!

3:19:23 > 3:19:26# Ah! # Vieni!

3:19:26 > 3:19:30# Che terror! # Vieni, c'e un mal peggior!

3:19:33 > 3:19:35A-a-a-a-a-h!

3:19:53 > 3:19:56HALF-HEARTED APPLAUSE

3:20:00 > 3:20:05PIANO CONCERTO IN D MINOR

3:21:18 > 3:21:21< KNOCKING

3:21:41 > 3:21:43Herr Mozart?

3:21:45 > 3:21:50- I have come to commission a work from you.- What work?

3:21:50 > 3:21:53A mass for the dead.

3:21:54 > 3:21:57What dead? Who is dead?

3:21:58 > 3:22:01A man who deserved a Requiem Mass,

3:22:01 > 3:22:04- and never got one.- Who are you?

3:22:04 > 3:22:08I am only a messenger. Do you accept?

3:22:08 > 3:22:11You will be well paid.

3:22:18 > 3:22:21Do you accept?

3:22:31 > 3:22:38Work fast, and be sure to tell no-one what you do. You will see me again.

3:23:13 > 3:23:15Wolfie?

3:23:24 > 3:23:27My plan was so simple.

3:23:29 > 3:23:31And it terrified me.

3:23:33 > 3:23:37First, I must get the Death Mass, and then I...

3:23:38 > 3:23:41..I must achieve his death.

3:23:42 > 3:23:44What?

3:23:44 > 3:23:46His funeral!

3:23:47 > 3:23:53Imagine it...the cathedral, all Vienna sitting there,

3:23:53 > 3:23:57his coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle...

3:23:58 > 3:24:02..and then, in that silence...

3:24:04 > 3:24:06..music!

3:24:06 > 3:24:14- REQUIEM STARTS - A DIVINE music bursts out over them all!

3:24:14 > 3:24:17A great Mass of DEATH!

3:24:18 > 3:24:22A Requiem Mass for Wolfgang Mozart...

3:24:22 > 3:24:26..composed by his DEVOTED friend...

3:24:27 > 3:24:30..Antonio Salieri!

3:24:30 > 3:24:37Oh, what sublimity! What depth! What PASSION in the music!

3:24:38 > 3:24:43Salieri has been touched by God at last!

3:24:43 > 3:24:46And God FORCED to listen!

3:24:46 > 3:24:50Powerless to choose! Powerless to stop it!

3:24:50 > 3:24:53I, for once, laughing at HIM!

3:24:53 > 3:24:57REQUIEM SOARS TO A CRESCENDO

3:25:01 > 3:25:06The only thing that worried me was the actual killing.

3:25:06 > 3:25:08How does one do that? Eh?

3:25:08 > 3:25:11How does one kill a man?

3:25:13 > 3:25:16It's one thing to dream about it,

3:25:17 > 3:25:20but very different when you...

3:25:21 > 3:25:24..when you have to do it...

3:25:27 > 3:25:30..with your own hands.

3:25:36 > 3:25:38< KNOCKING

3:25:38 > 3:25:41C-c-c-c...COME IN!

3:25:48 > 3:25:51AUDIENCE SCREAMS WITH LAUGHTER

3:25:51 > 3:25:55# Don Giovanni!

3:25:55 > 3:26:01AUDIENCE CHEERS # I've come for dinner!

3:26:01 > 3:26:06- #- Are you mad?! I'm a nobleman! I only dine with people my height!

3:26:06 > 3:26:10Whoa! Stop it!

3:26:10 > 3:26:15# Oh, be careful! Be careful, papa!

3:26:15 > 3:26:21# I'm a famous horseman!

3:26:21 > 3:26:25# And we're his famous horse!

3:26:26 > 3:26:30# Give me your hoof, my darling,

3:26:30 > 3:26:34# And I'll give you my heart.

3:26:34 > 3:26:40AUDIENCE JOIN IN # Take me to your stable,

3:26:40 > 3:26:43# And never more we'll part. #

3:27:13 > 3:27:18# We're going to make a soprano stew!

3:27:18 > 3:27:23# We're going to make a soprano stew!

3:27:23 > 3:27:28# And when you make... # Oh, shut up!

3:27:28 > 3:27:31I'm sick to death of that tune!

3:27:57 > 3:28:01Good fellow! Some hay! Prestissimo!

3:28:48 > 3:28:54# We hope you're contented,

3:28:54 > 3:29:02# With what we've presented,

3:29:02 > 3:29:09# And love our dove

3:29:09 > 3:29:20# Of peace and love! # And love our dove of peace! #

3:29:30 > 3:29:34So... What did you think of THAT, eh?

3:29:34 > 3:29:40- Wonderful! He liked the little people, didn't you?- All good fun!

3:29:40 > 3:29:43I liked the horse.

3:29:52 > 3:29:57I tell you, if you'd played 'Don Giovanni' here,

3:29:57 > 3:30:01you would've had a great success!

3:30:01 > 3:30:05You belong HERE, not the snobby Court!

3:30:05 > 3:30:11Do as you want! The more fantastic, the better! People want fantasy!

3:30:11 > 3:30:16You write a proper part for me and a couple of catchy songs,

3:30:16 > 3:30:21I GUARANTEE you a Triumph Deluxe!

3:30:22 > 3:30:25- What do you say?- What will you pay?

3:30:26 > 3:30:30Ah! I see you brought your manager with you!

3:30:33 > 3:30:39Well, madame... How about HALF the receipts?

3:30:39 > 3:30:45- Half the receipts?! Stanzi! - I'm talking about NOW. How much NOW?

3:30:45 > 3:30:48- Down payment.- Down payment?!

3:30:49 > 3:30:52Who do you think I am? The Emperor?

3:30:52 > 3:30:57Whoops! I have to go. Stay here and enjoy this next one.

3:30:59 > 3:31:04- You're not going to do this. - Why not? Half the house!- When?

3:31:04 > 3:31:10- We need money now! Either he pays now or you don't do it!- Oh, Stanzi! - I don't trust him.

3:31:10 > 3:31:17- And he made your opera common! - Well, you liked it, didn't you, monkey-punkey?

3:31:17 > 3:31:22Half the house(!) You'll never see a penny! I want it IN my hand!

3:31:22 > 3:31:25Stanzi, I'll put it in your hand!

3:31:25 > 3:31:29Shut up! You won't put anything in my hand, until I see some money!

3:31:29 > 3:31:31It's embarassing

3:31:31 > 3:31:34Can't you think of anyone who could do something for him?

3:31:36 > 3:31:39I'm afraid Mozart is a lost cause.

3:31:41 > 3:31:44He has succeeded in alienating practically the whole of Vienna.

3:31:44 > 3:31:47He never pays his debts.

3:31:47 > 3:31:50I can't think of anyone to whom I dare recommend him.

3:31:50 > 3:31:54Herr Mozart, what a surprise!

3:31:56 > 3:31:58What can I do for you?

3:31:58 > 3:32:03Is my pupil still interested in learning the art of music?

3:32:06 > 3:32:09Your pupil is married and living in Mannheim, young man.

3:32:11 > 3:32:12Really?

3:32:13 > 3:32:14HE LAUGHS

3:32:17 > 3:32:23Perhaps your dear wife might care to profit from my instruction.

3:32:23 > 3:32:27What is it, Mozart? What's the matter with you?

3:32:27 > 3:32:33Well, since it appears no one is eager to hire my services,

3:32:33 > 3:32:37could you favour me with a little money instead?

3:32:42 > 3:32:43What for?

3:32:45 > 3:32:47If a man cannot earn, he must borrow.

3:32:52 > 3:32:54It's hardly the way to go about it.

3:32:55 > 3:32:57You are right, sir.

3:32:57 > 3:32:58You are right.

3:32:58 > 3:33:03But, you see, I am endowed with talent and you with money.

3:33:03 > 3:33:07If I offer mine, you should offer yours.

3:33:11 > 3:33:13I'm sorry. No.

3:33:16 > 3:33:18Please.

3:33:18 > 3:33:21My answer is no, Mozart.

3:33:27 > 3:33:29Please!

3:33:33 > 3:33:35Please!

3:33:49 > 3:33:52REQUIEM BOOMS OUT

3:33:52 > 3:33:56< KNOCKING AT THE DOOR

3:33:58 > 3:33:59Wolfie?

3:33:59 > 3:34:02REQUIEM AND KNOCKING CONTINUE

3:34:03 > 3:34:05WOLFIE!

3:34:05 > 3:34:07SILENCE

3:34:07 > 3:34:10KNOCKING RESUMES

3:34:10 > 3:34:12Don't answer it!

3:34:14 > 3:34:15Why?

3:34:18 > 3:34:20Tell him...

3:34:21 > 3:34:23Tell him I'm not here!

3:34:23 > 3:34:27Tell him I'm... Tell him I'm working on it!

3:34:30 > 3:34:33He can come back later!

3:34:46 > 3:34:49- Am I interrupting something?- No.

3:34:49 > 3:34:52Good. Where's our friend?

3:34:52 > 3:34:55He's not here.

3:34:55 > 3:35:00- But he's working on it, he told me to tell you.- Is that it?

3:35:06 > 3:35:08Happy with it?

3:35:12 > 3:35:17What's this? A REQUIEM Mass? Think I'm an undertaker?!

3:35:17 > 3:35:23LEAVE THAT ALONE! PUT IT DOWN! IT'S NOTHING FOR YOU!

3:35:23 > 3:35:27Sorry. Have you got it finished?

3:35:30 > 3:35:31What?

3:35:31 > 3:35:34The vaudeville, what did you think?

3:35:35 > 3:35:36Yes.

3:35:36 > 3:35:39- May I see it?- No.

3:35:41 > 3:35:44- Why not?- There's nothing to see!

3:35:53 > 3:35:55Look...

3:35:55 > 3:36:00You said that we could start rehearsals next week!

3:36:00 > 3:36:05- Well, you can.- Then, let me see it! Where IS it?

3:36:07 > 3:36:11Here... It's all right here in my noodle!

3:36:13 > 3:36:17The rest is just scribbling. Scribbling-bibbling!

3:36:21 > 3:36:24- Would you like...- You LITTLE ant!

3:36:24 > 3:36:30- DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I'M PAYING?!- LEAVE HIM ALONE!

3:36:30 > 3:36:33- He's doing his best! - It's RIDICULOUS!

3:36:33 > 3:36:37It's your libretto that's ridiculous!

3:36:37 > 3:36:41- Oh?- Only an idiot would ask for it!

3:36:41 > 3:36:4412-foot snakes! Magic flutes!

3:36:44 > 3:36:49- What's so INTELLIGENT about writing a Requiem?- Money! Money.

3:36:52 > 3:36:54You're mad!

3:36:54 > 3:36:58- She's mad, Wolfie.- Oh, yes(?)

3:36:58 > 3:37:00Wolfie, write it down.

3:37:00 > 3:37:03Write it down on paper.

3:37:03 > 3:37:08It's no use to anybody in your head.

3:37:08 > 3:37:12To hell with your...DEATH MASS!

3:37:12 > 3:37:15Calm yourself. What's the matter?

3:37:15 > 3:37:19- I'm not working there any more! - Why?

3:37:19 > 3:37:24You don't know what it's like! Herr Mozart frightens me!

3:37:24 > 3:37:31He drinks ALL day, then takes all that medicine and it makes him WORSE!

3:37:31 > 3:37:33Is he working?

3:37:34 > 3:37:42- Oh, I'm frightened, sir, really! When he speaks, he makes no sense! - Is he WORKING?!

3:37:44 > 3:37:46I suppose so.

3:37:47 > 3:37:50He sits doing some silly opera!

3:37:52 > 3:37:58- Opera?!- Please, don't ask me to go back! I'm VERY frightened!

3:37:58 > 3:38:00Are you SURE it's an opera?

3:39:25 > 3:39:27KNOCKING >

3:39:40 > 3:39:42I don't have it yet.

3:39:42 > 3:39:45Are you neglecting my request?

3:39:45 > 3:39:51No! No...I...I...I promise you!

3:39:52 > 3:39:56I'll give you a wonderful piece, the best I ever...

3:39:58 > 3:40:00This is my wife.

3:40:05 > 3:40:10- I've been sick, but I'm fine now, aren't I?- Yes, sir, he's fine.

3:40:10 > 3:40:13And he's working on it very hard.

3:40:13 > 3:40:16Give me two more weeks.

3:40:16 > 3:40:22- Please.- The sooner you finish, the greater your reward.

3:40:22 > 3:40:23Work.

3:40:32 > 3:40:34Wolfie...

3:40:36 > 3:40:39..I think you really are going mad.

3:40:41 > 3:40:46You work like a slave for that idiot actor who won't pay you,

3:40:46 > 3:40:49and here... THIS IS NOT A GHOST!

3:40:49 > 3:40:53He's a REAL man who puts down REAL money!

3:40:55 > 3:40:58Why on earth won't you FINISH it?!

3:40:58 > 3:41:02Can you give me one reason I can understand?

3:41:02 > 3:41:05It's killing me.

3:41:10 > 3:41:15You're drunk, aren't you? Be honest, tell me, you're DRUNK!

3:41:18 > 3:41:20It's not fair!

3:41:20 > 3:41:23I worry about you all the time,

3:41:23 > 3:41:25I do everything I can to help you,

3:41:25 > 3:41:31and all you can do is drink, talk nonsense and FRIGHTEN ME!

3:41:31 > 3:41:34Go back to bed!

3:41:42 > 3:41:48REQUIEM BURSTS INTO LIFE Please... Let me sit here.

3:41:50 > 3:41:53Let me stay here with you.

3:42:28 > 3:42:33PAPAGENO'S SONG FROM 'THE MAGIC FLUTE'

3:43:13 > 3:43:17THE SOARING NOTES OF THE REQUIEM

3:43:53 > 3:43:55Stanzi?

3:44:04 > 3:44:06Stan...

3:44:21 > 3:44:28I was PROUD to do it! "Leave," I said, "and take the child! Here's money. Go to the spa."

3:44:28 > 3:44:32"Get your health back!"

3:44:32 > 3:44:37I was SHOCKED when I saw her! Couldn't believe my eyes, poor thing!

3:44:37 > 3:44:45You monster! No-one exists but YOU, do they? You and your MUSIC!

3:44:45 > 3:44:52I warned her! I said, "If you marry him, you won't have a pot to piss in!"

3:44:52 > 3:44:55SOPRANO SINGS IN HIS HEAD

3:44:55 > 3:44:58HER RANTING TURNS INTO SONG

3:44:58 > 3:45:03THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT ARIA FROM 'THE MAGIC FLUTE'

3:45:32 > 3:45:38# Rejected be forever! Forsaken be forever!

3:45:38 > 3:45:40# Sundered be forever

3:45:40 > 3:45:46# From the bonds of kin and blood.

3:45:46 > 3:45:51# Rejected, forsaken, sundered

3:45:51 > 3:45:55# From the bonds of kin and blood!

3:46:00 > 3:46:06TRILLING ARPEGGIOS

3:46:17 > 3:46:21# From the bonds of kin and blood!

3:46:21 > 3:46:24# If not through this,

3:46:24 > 3:46:32# Sarastro's life be taken!

3:46:32 > 3:46:40# Hark! Hark! HARK!

3:46:40 > 3:46:42# Gods of vengeance!

3:46:42 > 3:46:45# Hark!

3:46:45 > 3:46:49# My mother's curse! #

3:47:11 > 3:47:18'DAS KLINGET SO HERRLICH, DAS KLINGET SO SCHON' STARTS ON THE GLOCKENSPIEL

3:47:24 > 3:47:26- #- A sweetheart or a pretty wife,

3:47:26 > 3:47:30- #- Is Papageno's wish.

3:47:30 > 3:47:35- #- A willing, billing lovey-dovey would be my most tasty little dish!

3:47:35 > 3:47:39- #- Be my most tasty little dish!

3:47:39 > 3:47:42- #- Be my most tasty little dish!

3:47:48 > 3:47:54- #- That would be eating and drinking. I'd live like a prince without thinking.

3:47:54 > 3:47:57- #- The wisdom of old would be mine.

3:47:57 > 3:48:00- #- A woman's much better than wine!

3:48:00 > 3:48:06- #- Then that would...be eating... and drinking!

3:48:08 > 3:48:14- #- The wisdom of old would be mine. A woman's much better than wine!

3:48:15 > 3:48:19- #- Much better than wine... Much better than wine...- #

3:48:31 > 3:48:34Pick him up! PICK HIM UP!

3:48:37 > 3:48:40Come with me! You, follow me!

3:49:06 > 3:49:10- Is it over?- Yes, yes, it's over.

3:49:12 > 3:49:13GO!

3:49:21 > 3:49:25- #- Pa! Pa-pa!- Pa! Pa-pa!

3:49:25 > 3:49:29- #- Pa, pa, pa, pa!- Pa, pa, pa, pa!

3:49:29 > 3:49:37CLUCK AND ANSWER IN DIFFERENT RHYTHMS

3:49:37 > 3:49:43- #- Will you be mine forever? - Yes, I will be yours forever... #

3:49:53 > 3:49:55Go, go!

3:49:56 > 3:49:59GO! GO!

3:50:25 > 3:50:27(Where is your wife?)

3:50:30 > 3:50:32Where is your wife?

3:50:32 > 3:50:37She's not well either. She went to the spa.

3:50:41 > 3:50:44You are so good to me...truly.

3:50:44 > 3:50:49- Thank you.- No, please, please.

3:50:49 > 3:50:52No, I mean, to come to my opera.

3:50:55 > 3:50:58You are the only colleague who came.

3:51:01 > 3:51:06Oh, Mozart! Mozart, I would never miss ANYTHING you had written!

3:51:06 > 3:51:13- It's just vaudeville! - No, no! It's a SUBLIME piece!

3:51:13 > 3:51:17The grandest Oberon!

3:51:25 > 3:51:31I tell you, you are the greatest composer known to me!

3:51:34 > 3:51:36(Do you mean it?)

3:51:36 > 3:51:40< KNOCKING

3:51:40 > 3:51:43It's him!

3:51:43 > 3:51:47- Who?- The man. - < LOUDER KNOCKING - He's here.

3:51:49 > 3:51:52Tell him to go away.

3:51:52 > 3:51:57Tell him I'm still working on it. Don't let him in!

3:51:58 > 3:51:59Wait!

3:51:59 > 3:52:06Ask him if he'd give me some money. Tell him if he could it would help me to finish it.

3:52:26 > 3:52:29- Salieri?!- Yes.

3:52:29 > 3:52:34- C-could we come in? - You'd better not. He's sleeping.

3:52:34 > 3:52:40- He's all right though?- Oh, yes. He's just exhausted. He became dizzy.

3:52:40 > 3:52:44- That's all. - Well, tell him we came by.

3:52:44 > 3:52:50- Of course.- Oh...and give him this. That's his share.

3:52:50 > 3:52:58- That should cheer him up!- Indeed! And now, goodnight to you all. It was...perfection, truly!

3:53:09 > 3:53:12What happened?

3:53:19 > 3:53:22He said to give you this.

3:53:22 > 3:53:29And, if you finish the work by tomorrow night, he will pay you another 100 ducats.

3:53:31 > 3:53:33Another...?

3:53:33 > 3:53:37That's too soon, tomorrow night!

3:53:37 > 3:53:39It's impossible!

3:53:42 > 3:53:45Did he say a hundred?

3:53:45 > 3:53:46Yes.

3:53:51 > 3:53:54It's too soon!

3:53:56 > 3:53:59- (Can I...) Could- I- help you?

3:54:02 > 3:54:04Would you?

3:54:06 > 3:54:09Actually, you could.

3:54:16 > 3:54:20I want to go! Where? To Vienna!

3:54:20 > 3:54:24STANZI: I want to go now!

3:54:24 > 3:54:27Why? I feel wrong!

3:54:28 > 3:54:31I feel wrong being here!

3:54:33 > 3:54:37- Where did I stop? - At the end of the Recordare.

3:54:37 > 3:54:42So... Confutatis maledictis flammis acribus addictis...

3:54:42 > 3:54:45..flammis acribus addictis...

3:54:45 > 3:54:48How would you translate that?

3:54:48 > 3:54:54- Consign to flames of woe. - Do you believe in it?

3:54:54 > 3:54:59- What?- A fire which never dies, burning you forever.

3:55:01 > 3:55:04Oh, yes!

3:55:04 > 3:55:06Is it possible?

3:55:06 > 3:55:08Come, let's begin.

3:55:10 > 3:55:13- We ended in F major.- Yes.

3:55:13 > 3:55:15So, now... A minor...

3:55:22 > 3:55:24A minor...

3:55:24 > 3:55:25Yes...?

3:55:27 > 3:55:30Confutatis, A minor...

3:55:33 > 3:55:39- Start with the voices. Bass - second beat...- Time, time?

3:55:39 > 3:55:43Common time. Second beat, first measure...

3:55:43 > 3:55:45..on A...

3:55:45 > 3:55:48- #- Con-futa-tis...

3:55:48 > 3:55:51- Second measure, second beat - - #- Ma-ledic-tis...

3:55:51 > 3:55:54- Yes, yes. D sharp?- Of course!

3:55:54 > 3:56:01- Second beat, third measure - - #- Flammis acribus addictis, rest, maledictis flammis...

3:56:01 > 3:56:05- #- acribus addictis... Do you have me?

3:56:05 > 3:56:08Show me!

3:56:12 > 3:56:18CHOIR SINGS THE BASS PART IN HIS HEAD

3:56:25 > 3:56:28Good...good!

3:56:28 > 3:56:33Now the tenors. Fourth beat of the first measure, on C...

3:56:33 > 3:56:35- #- Con-futa-tis...

3:56:35 > 3:56:40- Second measure, fourth beat, D... - #- Ma-ledic-tis...

3:56:40 > 3:56:45- Do you have it?- Yes! Continue! - Second beat, fourth measure, F...

3:56:45 > 3:56:52- #- Flammis acribus addictis, flammis acribus addic-tis...

3:56:52 > 3:56:56The orchestra - second bassoons with the basses,

3:56:56 > 3:57:00- identical notes and rhythm... - BASSOON PART PLAYS

3:57:00 > 3:57:04Tenor trombone with the tenors.

3:57:04 > 3:57:07THE TWO PARTS PLAY TOGETHER

3:57:07 > 3:57:11- MOZART HUMS IT - Not too fast!

3:57:11 > 3:57:14- Do you have it?- Too fast!- DO you?

3:57:14 > 3:57:18- Tenor trombone...? - With the tenors!- Identical?

3:57:18 > 3:57:23- Yes, they double the voices! Now, trumpets and timpani...- No!

3:57:23 > 3:57:26- I don't UNDERSTAND!- Listen to me!

3:57:26 > 3:57:34Trumpets in D, tonic and dominant, first and third beats... It goes with the HARMONY!

3:57:34 > 3:57:38THE TRUMPET PART PLAYS

3:57:40 > 3:57:44YES! Yes! Yes, yes!

3:57:51 > 3:57:54I understand! And that's all?

3:57:54 > 3:57:58No, now for the fire! Strings in unison, ostinato on A.

3:57:58 > 3:58:01- Like this... - VIOLINS BURST INTO LIFE

3:58:02 > 3:58:05The next measure is rising...

3:58:05 > 3:58:08- Do you have it?- Yes, I think so!

3:58:08 > 3:58:13- Show me! - THEY BOTH SING WITH THE VIOLINS PLAYING IN THEIR HEADS

3:58:16 > 3:58:19- It's wonderful!- Yes, yes. Go on. Voca me.

3:58:22 > 3:58:24Sotto voce.

3:58:25 > 3:58:29- Write that down! Sotto voce... - Yes, yes.

3:58:29 > 3:58:32- Pianissimo?- Yes.

3:58:34 > 3:58:41C major. Sopranos and altos in thirds. Altos on C, sopranos above.

3:58:41 > 3:58:47ANGELIC VOICES SING VOCA ME

3:58:47 > 3:58:53- #- Voca me cum benedictis...

3:58:53 > 3:59:00- Sopranos on F on the second 'voca'? - Yes, and on 'dictus'! Underneath, violin arpeggios.

3:59:00 > 3:59:05Descending scale in eighth notes and then back to the ostinato.

3:59:05 > 3:59:11- That's it! Do you have it? - You go too fast!- Do you HAVE it? - One moment!

3:59:13 > 3:59:14Yes.

3:59:14 > 3:59:17Good! Show me the whole thing!

3:59:23 > 3:59:29THE PARTS FUSE TOGETHER AND THE CONFUTATIS FLARES INTO LIFE

3:59:42 > 3:59:49MOZART SINGS VOCA ME WITH THE HEAVENLY CHOIR

4:01:15 > 4:01:17(Do you want to rest a bit?)

4:01:18 > 4:01:21No! No, I'm not tired at all!

4:01:26 > 4:01:33- We'll stop a moment, then finish the Lacrymosa. - I can keep going!

4:01:33 > 4:01:36Will you stay while I sleep?

4:01:37 > 4:01:40I'm not leaving you.

4:01:48 > 4:01:50I'm so ashamed!

4:01:51 > 4:01:53Of what?

4:01:53 > 4:02:00I was foolish! I...I thought you did not care for my work!

4:02:00 > 4:02:02Or me either.

4:02:05 > 4:02:07(Forgive me.)

4:02:11 > 4:02:13(Forgive me.)

4:03:08 > 4:03:10What are YOU doing here?

4:03:13 > 4:03:16Your husband took sick.

4:03:17 > 4:03:20I brought him home.

4:03:20 > 4:03:22Why you?

4:03:23 > 4:03:26- Because, madame,- I- was at hand.

4:03:31 > 4:03:34Well, thank you. You can go now.

4:03:36 > 4:03:42- He needs me, ma'am. - No, he doesn't. And I don't want you here.

4:03:42 > 4:03:44Just go.

4:03:44 > 4:03:48- He asked me to stay.- And I'm...

4:04:04 > 4:04:06Wolfie.

4:04:11 > 4:04:13Wolfie?

4:04:15 > 4:04:17I'm back!

4:04:21 > 4:04:23I missed you SO much!

4:04:28 > 4:04:33If you'd just... show me that you need me!

4:04:39 > 4:04:42< And I'll try and do better, too.

4:04:54 > 4:04:56What is this?

4:04:58 > 4:05:01No, Wolfie, not this!

4:05:01 > 4:05:03Not THIS!

4:05:05 > 4:05:09You're not to work on this ever again!

4:05:11 > 4:05:13I've decided!

4:05:15 > 4:05:18This is not his handwriting.

4:05:21 > 4:05:24It's mine! I was assisting him.

4:05:25 > 4:05:29Well, he's not to work on this any more!

4:05:29 > 4:05:32- It's making him ill!- But...

4:05:33 > 4:05:35Goodnight.

4:05:39 > 4:05:44I regret we have no servants to show you out, Herr Salieri.

4:05:44 > 4:05:50- Please respect my wish and go. - Madame, I will respect HIS.

4:05:53 > 4:05:55Wolfie?

4:05:57 > 4:05:59Wolfie...

4:06:03 > 4:06:04Wolfie?

4:06:07 > 4:06:10Wolfie!

4:06:12 > 4:06:14Wolfie!

4:06:15 > 4:06:17WOLFIE!

4:06:17 > 4:06:20WOLFIE!

4:06:20 > 4:06:27THE SOLEMN QUIET LACRYMOSA FROM THE REQUIEM MASS

4:08:42 > 4:08:44In nomine Patris,

4:08:44 > 4:08:48et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

4:08:58 > 4:09:00Amen.

4:09:47 > 4:09:50Your MERCIFUL God(!)

4:09:50 > 4:09:54He destroyed His own beloved,

4:09:54 > 4:10:01rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of His glory!

4:10:01 > 4:10:04He killed Mozart,

4:10:04 > 4:10:07and kept me alive to torture!

4:10:07 > 4:10:1532 years of torture! 32 years of slowly watching myself become extinct!

4:10:15 > 4:10:22My music...growing fainter, all the time, fainter.

4:10:22 > 4:10:25Till no-one plays it at all.

4:10:25 > 4:10:28And HIS...

4:10:28 > 4:10:30< 'Morning, Professor!

4:10:30 > 4:10:34Time for the water closet.

4:10:34 > 4:10:39Then we have your favourite - sugar rolls! He loves those!

4:10:39 > 4:10:44- < Fresh sugar rolls. - I will speak for you, Father.

4:10:44 > 4:10:48I speak for ALL mediocrities in the world.

4:10:48 > 4:10:51I am their champion.

4:10:51 > 4:10:54I am their patron saint!

4:11:04 > 4:11:09Mediocrities everywhere, I absolve you!

4:11:11 > 4:11:14I absolve you!

4:11:14 > 4:11:16I absolve you!

4:11:18 > 4:11:21I absolve you!

4:11:22 > 4:11:24I absolve you!

4:11:32 > 4:11:35MOZART'S BRAYING LAUGH

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