Bavaria Media and Beta Movie have joined forces on Mozart Mozart, a six-hour drama that reimagines the legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart via the eyes of his (real-life) sister, Maria Anna Mozart.
The sequence, from the creators of German costume drama hit Sisi, has obtained a first-season fee from German public broadcaster ARD and Austria’s ORF.
Set within the late 18th century, the sequence facilities on Amadeus’s sister, Maria Anna Mozart, portrayed by Havana Pleasure (Love Sucks), who steps into her brother’s footwear after his dismissal from the Salzburg court docket threatens the household’s future. When Wolfgang, performed by Eren M. Güvercin (Druck, Eldorado), proves too unstable to safe favor on the court docket of Emperor Joseph II, Maria Anna disguises herself as her brother, charming Vienna’s elite and drawing the envy of Mozart’s rival, Antonio Salieri. Her deception grows more and more advanced as she makes an attempt to keep up the ruse, shield her household’s status, and navigate her relationship with Salieri.
The sequence stands aside from the upcoming English-language sequence Amadeus, which Sky has commissioned within the U.Ok., and can see White Lotus actor Will Sharpe play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. That drama is a reimagining of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 stage play, Amadeus, which impressed Milos Forman’s 1984 Oscar-winning adaptation.
“What we positively didn’t need to do was a remake of Amadeus,” Mozart Mozart showrunner Andreas Gutzeit, who created the sequence and co-wrote it with Swantje Oppermann (Dignity), tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The will is to inform a brand new story for a youthful viewers, and to inform the forgotten story of Maria Anna, who was a musical genius of her personal, maybe as gifted, or extra so, than her famous person brother.”
“Mozart’s sister isn’t a secret, however we don’t know a lot about her life, apart from she was additionally a baby prodigy and that she and Amadeus toured collectively to each royal court docket in Europe on the time,” notes Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, who’s directing the sequence. “However she had the misfortune of being a girl after which, when she turned a marriageable age, she was dragged off the stage, within the truest sense of the phrase. There may be plenty of hypothesis on how huge her affect was on Amadeus’ music, on his compositions, through the years.”
Jessica De Rooij, who composed the award-winning music for Sisi, is again for Mozart Mozart, giving Mozart’s iconic compositions a recent edge for the present. Gutzeit and Jens Freels (Dignity) function govt producers, with Simona Weber producing.
The ensemble solid contains Eidin Jalali (The Swarm, Maxton Corridor), Verena Altenberger (Wild Republic), Peter Kurth (Babylon Berlin), Philipp Hochmair (Freud), Sonja Weißer (Maxton Corridor), Lisa Vicari (Subsequent Degree), and Annabelle Mandeng (Vikings: Valhalla).
Produced by Gutzeit’s Story Home Footage in co-production with ARD, ORF, and The Dreaming Sheep Firm, Mozart Mozart is being bought internationally by Bavaria Media and Beta Movie.
Take a look at the teaser trailer for Mozart Mozart beneath.