Sky has ordered a limited series adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s award-winning stage play ‘Amadeus‘ from the brilliant Joe Barton (‘The Lazarus Project’, ‘Giri/Haji’), with BAFTA-winner Will Sharpe (Giri/Haji, The White Lotus S2) taking the title role.
Deftly reimagined from Peter Shaffer’s award-winning stage play, Barton’s adaptation of Amadeus expands and interrogates the mythic rivalry, promising a corrupting symphony of jealousy, ambition and genius. Set within the musical hub of bustling Vienna at the end of the 18th century, twenty-five-year-old Amadeus arrives in the city no longer a child and determined to carve his own path. Recently unemployed and without the management of his father, Amadeus finds an unlikely ally in a young singer who will become his wife, fiery Constanze Weber Mozart. Her connections help bring him into the orbit of the court composer Antonio Salieri, setting the three of them on a collision course that will ultimately define their lives and their legacies for years to come.
As with the play, Barton’s arrangement will be fresh, intimate and irreverent and will feel at times in the hands of the characters themselves. It will ask audiences to bear witness to the making and unmaking of a musical genius by those that loved and envied him most.
The limited series is created by Joe Barton based on the Peter Shaffer stage play. The drama not only reunites him with Giri/Haji’s Will Sharpe, but also with its director, Julian Farino.
Amadeus is produced by Two Cities Television (part of STV Studios) in association with Sky Studios. Paul Gilbert and Megan Spanjian are Executive Producers for Sky Studios. Michael Jackson (Patrick Melrose) and Stephen Wright (Blue Lights) are Executive Producers for Two Cities Television. Julian Farino (Giri/Haji) and Alice Seabright (Chloe, Sex Education) will serve as directors. Barton, Sharpe and Farino also serve as Executive Producers.
‘Amadeus‘ does not yet have a premiere date but is coming to Sky in 2024. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add it via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
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