Friday, October 28 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, October 29 at 2:00 PM
Experience the multi-Academy Award® winning 1984 motion picture, Amadeus on a vast HD screen while Mozart’s most celebrated music is performed in sync with the film LIVE by full orchestra and choir.
“Amadeus weaves a beautiful, tragic fable, enchanting to children and adults alike. It has gore, a pact with God, celebrity, a masked stranger, murder and some of the best music ever written. What other film offers half as much?” (The Guardian)
Winner of eight Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Amadeus is an aural and visual treat as well as being a screen triumph, a sumptuous period epic, and a soaring celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Adapted from Sir Peter Shaffer’s original stage play, Amadeus highlights the contrast between, as Shaffer himself described, “the sublimity of his [Mozart’s] music and the vulgar buffoonery of his letters” which, “read like something written by an eight-year-old.” What better way to experience the life and music of one of the world’s most recognized and beloved composers then on a 35′ HD screen with a full orchestra and choir performing the award-winning score of Mozart’s masterpieces, live? It’s a larger-than-life concert performance bringing to life on screen the flamboyant genius of Classical music’s most renowned composer.
Amadeus tells the story of court composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and the envy that consumes him upon discovering that his musical talent is completely subsumed by that of Mozart’s (Tom Hulce)—a bawdy, vulgar and impish young composer. Salieri’s envy fuels his plot to destroy the man, all the while unable to tear himself away from the genius of Mozart’s music.
Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in 1984, the soundtrack to Amadeus became the first classical album to make the pop charts in Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US. With Mozart at its core throughout, the score of Amadeus contains some of the composer’s greatest works including excerpts fromMagic Flute, Symphony No. 25 in G minor, Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, and most topically: his Requiem in D minor, a mass for the dead that he is seen and heard composing while on his deathbed in the film.
Music Director of the film, Sir Neville Marriner said of the experience that “one of the good things aboutAmadeus was that the film was shot around the music – not the other way around as is usually the case”. Amadeus LIVE IN CONCERT brings Mozart’s music to the forefront of the movie-going experience, in his 260th birth year.
The Sony Centre has become a favorite place for fans of all ages and backgrounds to see great films with iconic music scores played live. Amadeus LIVE IN CONCERT is for cinephiles and classical music lovers alike; USA Today describes it as, “About as close to perfection as movies get.”
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts and Attila Glatz Concert Productions present
Amadeus LIVE IN CONCERT
Friday, October 28 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, October 29 at 2:00 PM
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front Street East, Toronto
Tickets on sale Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 10:00AM
Ticket prices range from $49-$99. Ticket prices do not include service or delivery fees.
Tickets can be purchased in person at the Sony Centre Box Office,
over the phone at 1-855-872-SONY (7669) or online at www.sonycentre.ca
Discounts for groups of eight or more are available through THE Group Tix Company at 647-438-5559,
toll free at 1-866-447-7849 or via email info@grouptixcompany.com