Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer, which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. First performed in 1979, "Amadeus" was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called "Mozart and Salieri" (which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897). In the play, significant use is made of the music of Mozart, Salieri and other composers of the period. The premieres of Mozart's operas "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Giovanni", and
Conal Coad Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and Roberto Abbado at Tokyo Global Concert at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan. Conal has performed in "Le nozze di Figaro", "Così fan tutte", "Il Seraglio", "Die Zauberflöte", "Don Giovanni", "Don Carlo", "Falstaff", "I vespri siciliani", "Aida", "Rigoletto", "Billy Budd", "Peter Grimes", "The Rape of Lucretia", "A Midsummernight's Dream", "Let's Make an Opera", "Albert Herring", "La damnation de Faust", "Fidelio", "The Barber of Seville", "L'heure espagnole", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Don Pasquale", "L'elisir d'amore", "L'italiana in Algeri", "Il turco in Italia", "The Queen of Spades", "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria", "Norma", "Katya Kabanova", "Roméo et Juliette",