Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius the most brilliant musician the world will ever see But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talents
- only Antonio Salieri the Court Composer does & he is tortured by what he hears Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon & suddenly aware of his own mediocrity Salieri declares war & sets out to destroy the man he sees as God's instrument on earth Peter Shaffer's award-winning play is a rich exuberant portrayal of a God-like man among mortals & lives destroyed by envy