The ballet is not an all-inclusive vision of Mozart as genius and man. There is no chronological narrative – only images! Five Mozarts are portrayed by five different dancers – Life and Work in movement. One cannot dance "Mozart", but one can create a ballet about a man who is perhaps like Mozart. Whereby DANCE must be more important than the man Mozart; otherwise the phenomenon MOZART will remain elusive.
Musik: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alfred Schnittke, Max Reger, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Schweinitz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography and Staging: John Neumeier
Set and Costumes: Klaus Hellenstein
3 hours | 1 intermission
PREMIERE:
Hamburg Ballet, Hamburg, April 19, 1991
ORIGINAL CAST:
Mozart the Wonder Child: Radik Zaripov
Wolfgangerl: Patrick Becker
Wolfgang Amadeus: Jean Laban
Wolferl: Eric Miot
W. A. Mozart: Ivan Liska
The Music: Anna Grabka, Gamal Gouda
Leopold Mozart: Ralf Dörnen
Nannerl Mozart: Jessica Funt
Das Bäsle: Gigi Hyatt
Aloisia Weber: Stefanie Arndt
Constanze Weber: Bettina Beckmann (for Chantal Lefèvre)
The Grey Messenger: Anders Hellström
IN THE REPERTORY:
Bavarian State Ballet (Jupiter Symphony)
