For Immediate Release: January 25, 2016
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Sony Centre for the Performing Arts and Attila Glatz Concert Productions
proudly present
Amadeus LIVE IN CONCERT
Friday, October 28 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, October 29 at 2:00 PM
Experience the multi-Academy Award® winning 1984 motion picture, Amadeus on a vast HD screen
while Mozart’s most celebrated music is performed in sync with the film LIVE by
full orchestra and choir.
Tickets on sale January 27 to celebrate Mozart’s 260th birthday!
“Amadeus weaves a beautiful, tragic fable, enchanting to children and adults alike. It has gore, a pact
with God, celebrity, a masked stranger, murder and some of the best music ever written. What other
film offers half as much?” (The Guardian)
Winner of eight Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Amadeus is an aural and visual treat as
well as being a screen triumph, a sumptuous period epic, and a soaring celebration of the music of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Adapted from Sir Peter Shaffer’s original stage play, Amadeus highlights
the contrast between, as Shaffer himself described, “the sublimity of his [Mozart’s] music and the
vulgar buffoonery of his letters” which, “read like something written by an eight-year-old.” What better
way to experience the life and music of one of the world’s most recognized and beloved composers
then on a 35’ HD screen with a full orchestra and choir performing the award-winning score of
Mozart’s masterpieces, live? It’s a larger-than-life concert performance bringing to life on screen the
flamboyant genius of Classical music’s most renowned composer.
Amadeus tells the story of court composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and the envy that
consumes him upon discovering that his musical talent is completely subsumed by that of Mozart’s
(Tom Hulce)—a bawdy, vulgar and impish young composer. Salieri’s envy fuels his plot to destroy the
man, all the while unable to tear himself away from the genius of Mozart’s music.
Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in 1984, the soundtrack to Amadeus became the first classical
album to make the pop charts in Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US. With Mozart at
its core throughout, the score of Amadeus contains some of the composer’s greatest works including
excerpts from Magic Flute, Symphony No. 25 in G minor, Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, and most
topically: his Requiem in D minor, a mass for the dead that he is seen and heard composing while on
his deathbed in the film.
Music Director of the film, Sir Neville Marriner said of the experience that “one of the good things
about Amadeus was that the film was shot around the music – not the other way around as is usually
the case”. Amadeus LIVE IN CONCERT brings Mozart’s music to the forefront of the movie-going
experience, in his 260th birth year.
The Sony Centre has become a favorite place for fans of all ages and backgrounds to see great films
with iconic music scores played live. Amadeus LIVE IN CONCERT is for cinephiles and classical
music lovers alike; USA Today describes it as, “About as close to perfection as movies get.”
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts and Attila Glatz Concert Productions present
Amadeus LIVE IN CONCERT
Friday, October 28 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, October 29 at 2:00 PM
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front Street East, Toronto
Tickets on sale Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 10:00AM
Ticket prices range from $49-$99. Ticket prices do not include service or delivery fees.
Tickets can be purchased in person at the Sony Centre Box Office,
over the phone at 1-855-872-SONY (7669) or online at www.sonycentre.ca
Discounts for groups of eight or more are available through THE Group Tix Company at 647-438-5559,
toll free at 1-866-447-7849 or via email info@thegrouptixcompany.com
Media Contact:
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts: Mary Ann Farrell, Director of Marketing, Communications and
Development, 416-368-6161 x7131, mary_ann@sonycentre.ca
About the Presenters:
Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto’s first performing arts centre, has played a defining
role in the cultural life of Toronto for more than 50 years. Today, the Sony Centre’s mission is to unite
the global citizens of Toronto through great artistic experiences. In addition, the Sony Centre is
dedicated to developing Toronto’s younger audiences through family programming; workshops
targeted towards school-aged audiences, an under-30 membership program, and other community
initiatives.
Attila Glatz Concert Productions produces and promotes classical, jazz, folk and film performances
worldwide. The company’s signature presentation is the beloved New Year’s Concert, SALUTE TO
VIENNA, presented in more than 20 cities across North America over New Year’s. Other highlights
include Bravissimo! Opera’s Greatest Hits, Radio City Music Hall’s performances of Back to the
Future in Concert, and Vienna Mozart Orchestra’s North American Tour in 2016. Attila Glatz Concert
Productions and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts have collaborated on other successful film
concerts such as Gladiator LIVE (December 2014), and The Godfather LIVE IN CONCERT
(upcoming, February 20, 2016).