Mozart and Salieri

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Mozart and Salieri is a play by Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)[]

The original text

Translations and adaptations

In 1897 the play was adapted as a one-act opera called Mozart and Salieri'' by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ()[]

In 1914 is was made into a silent film called Mozart and Salieri by Victor Tourjansky ()[]. .

In 1962 it was made into a Soviet television drama film with the same name.

In 1979 another Soviet television miniseries called Little Tragedies directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on works by Alexander Pushkin. It included an episode based on the play.

Mozart and Salieri was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which Shaffer adapted for the 1984 film of the same name.

Performance history in South Africa

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