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DIED. ANTHONY SHAFFER, 75, lawyer turned thriller writer; of a heart attack; in London. Shaffer, whose playwright brother Peter wrote Amadeus, was best known for Sleuth, a brilliant, twisted portrait of double crossing, manipulation and revenge that won a Tony in 1971 and was made into a film starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier...
Such is the message—and the basic plot—of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Set to the libretto of Mozart’s fellow Freemason Emanuel Schikaneder, it offers such an idealistic view of human nature and interpersonal relationships that it seems in danger of being laughed to scorn by modern audiences. But on the March 17 closing night performance of its recent Die Zauberflöte production, New York’s Metropolitan Opera demonstrated just how powerful and convincing Mozart’s final opera really...
written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
Bennett's The Madness of George III and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus both fit these critera. Shaffer's play was at the origin of Milos Foreman's Academy Award-winning film Amadeus, and has recently been staged on Broadway. Although The Madness of King George III came out as a movie in 1993, it has not been recently staged on Broadway. As such, Hood decided to direct The Madness of King George...
...Magic Flute, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart shortly before his death in 1791, features the tale of Prince Tamino's (Sonny Elizaondo '00) quest to find Pamina (Tonia D'Amelio '00), his love. The rather basic storyline is complicated by Pamina's evil mother, the Queen of the Night (Tamara R. Spiewak '02), who commissions Prince Tamino to steal Pamina away from the just and wise Sarastro (John Driscoll '99) and the queen's trusted follower who guards Pamina, Monostatos (Joe Nuccio '00), with the hope of marrying...