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
Il templario Il templario Il templario is an Italian-language opera by the German composer Otto Nicolai from a libretto written by Girolamo Maria Marini based on Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe". It has been noted that Nicolai's work for the opera stage, which followed the successful "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" ("The Merry Wives of Windsor)" (his only German opera), included three others, all of which were in Italian (two being "Gilippede ed Odoardo" and "Il proscritto") and all "are all firmly cast in the "bel canto" style, with gracefully flowing melodies in the manner of Bellini". Marini was a part-time poet when not