Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Einstein on the Beach with goats? No, thanks | Letters

Letters: John Coldwell on his first ever walkout from a performance. Plus letters from Ian Garner, David Riley and Tim Edwards on leaving theatres at the interval or even earlier

03, Dec, 2023 @6:14 PM

Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover review – the making of a master

An account of the teenage Mozart’s operatic awakening is packed with humanising detail

Martin Kettle

29, Nov, 2023 @7:30 AM

Mozart: Piano Concertos K238 and 503 album review – Kristian Bezuidenhout

Freiburg Baroque Orch.
(Harmonia Mundi)

Andrew Clements

26, Oct, 2023 @3:00 PM

‘John McEnroe was my reference point’: how we made hit Mozart movie Amadeus

‘I was told my laugh wasn’t extreme enough. So I got through an entire bottle of Jack Daniel’s getting its idiot sound right’

Interviews by Chris Broughton

23, Oct, 2023 @1:58 PM

In brief: Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop; Birdgirl; Mozart in Italy – reviews

The tale of a divorcee embraces its sentimentality; a young birdwatcher proves a gifted memoirist; and Mozart’s Italian job sparkles with detail

Hannah Beckerman

08, Oct, 2023 @3:30 PM

After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

Michael Billington

20, Sep, 2023 @7:06 AM

Music may reduce babies’ pain during jabs or heel-prick tests, study suggests

Newborns suffered less pain during heel-prick blood tests if they heard a Mozart lullaby, researchers report

Linda Geddes Science correspondent

29, Aug, 2023 @12:00 AM

Mozart Piano Quartets review | Erica Jeal's classical album of the week

Violinist Francesca Dego, violist Timothy Ridout, cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Federico Colli combine character and grace in Mozart’s innovative quartets

Erica Jeal

17, Aug, 2023 @2:00 PM

Ingrid Haebler obituary

Quintessentially Viennese pianist who brought delicacy and charm to her performances of Mozart and Schubert

Barry Millington

09, Jul, 2023 @4:33 PM

Don Giovanni review – obsession, distress and danger in uneven new production

Mariame Clément’s thoughtful staging brings depth and insights but feels, at times, at odds with the score’s sensuality and demonic fire. In the pit, conductor Evan Rogister favours speed over dramatic weight.

Tim Ashley

21, May, 2023 @2:14 PM

Rebel, rapist, libertine or libertarian? Staging Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Mozart’s anti-hero can be many things, just as his opera can be read on multiple levels. Ahead of a new production at Glyndebourne, director Mariame Clément considers truth, interpretation and legitimacy

Mariame Clément

19, May, 2023 @8:55 AM

OAE/Bezuidenhout review – on an exemplary Mozart journey

With Kristian Bezuidenhout conducting from the fortepiano, this was a genial celebration of three works written in the year 1784