Drama on 3 - Amadeus

Peter Shaffer's award-winning play combines fiction and history to detail the final years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Antonio Salieri, an older composer, propelled by jealousy, plots the tragic downfall of his brilliant rival. Sir Peter Hall's production, first broadcast in 1983 and recorded with the original National Theatre cast, is being repeated as part of Radio 3's 'Genius of Mozart' season. Antonio Salieri ..... Paul Scofield Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ..... Simon Callow Constanze Mozart ..... Felicity Kendall Joseph II ..... John Normington Gottfried Baron Van Sweiten ..... Nicholas Selby Count Franz Orsini Rosenberg ..... Willoughby Goddard Johann Killian Von Strack ..... Basil Henson Venticelli ..... Donald Gee, Dermot Crawley Citizens of Vienna ..... Nigel Bellairs, Susan Gilmore, Peggy Marshall, Robin Meredith, Anne Sedgwick, William Sleigh, Glenn Williams Directed by Peter Hall Producer David Spenser.