Taking a Closer Look at Paolo Veronese’s Masterpiece: Feast in the House of Levi (c. 1573), Remarkable Women: The Life and Times of Virginia Hall (Part 2), What’s in a Painting? Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Josefa is the toast of Prague and afterwards in her dressing room, the licentious and predatory Baron Saloka is visiting her with lustful motives. Whilst her heavenly voice rings out into the hushed auditorium another, less pure act is being committed in a dressing room. Tom Hulce’s performance of Mozart in Amadeus was the one that was seared into my mind. If you know the aria and its meaning it has a poignant effect. Audiobook Version of The Virtuoso is Released on Audible! Purefoy’s Baron Saloka made my skin crawl…. Interlude in Prague mirror’s Mozart’s life in a wonderful blend of fact and fiction, written and created by Brian Ashby. Mozart’s last minute completion of his opera is shown at the end of the film in a scene in which the maestro, quill in hand, feverishly completes his autograph score. 4 Fascinating Neurological Processes to Help Fulfill Dreams, Life After Life is a Book That Will Make You Think, Remarkable Women: The Life and Times of Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, (Warrior Princess of Wales), What’s in a Painting? Interlude in Prague (directed by John Stephenson), was wise to focus only on one aspect of the maestro’s iconic and turbulent life: his brief time in Prague in 1787. I had already become a fan of his from his part as the unfortunate Richard III in the television adaptation of Phillipa Gregory’s The White Princess. When Mozart arrives and begins composing at his friend Josefa’s residence he tells her about a “diabolically wicked character for one of your operas”. He preys on servants and nobility alike, assured of their silence out of fear. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. I’ll bid you adieu with a vintage recording of Don Giovanni: I loved this movie too for all the reasons you mentioned. ( Log Out /  In Mozart’s day it was known as the Nostitz Theatre, built in around two years for the aristocrat František Antonín Count Nostitz Rieneck. Compared to Hulce’s performance Barnard’s Mozart has more depth, is more relatable; not as jocular and altogether less flamboyant and hysterical (his baby son has just died and Constanze has retreated to a spa to recover). Interlude in Prague (directed by John Stephenson), was wise to focus only on one aspect of the maestro’s iconic and turbulent life: his brief time in Prague in 1787. In the 230 years since its world premiere in Prague, Don Giovanni continues to serve as an entertaining yet enduring cautionary tale, being one of the most popular and widely performed operas to this day.

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