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Mozart!

Musical about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Field	Value
name	Mozart!
music	Sylvester Levay
lyrics	Michael Kunze
book	Michael Kunze
basis	The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
productions	1999 Austria
2002 Japan
2003 Hungary
2015 Vienna revival

2002 Japan 2003 Hungary 2015 Vienna revival Mozart! is an Austrian musical, originally written in German. The original book and lyrics were written by Michael Kunze and the music and arrangements were composed by Sylvester Levay. The show is a new imagining of the struggles of the famous composer.

The original production was directed by the opera director Harry Kupfer. It premiered on October 2, 1999, in the Theater an der Wien, and the final performance was on 7 May 2001. It ran for 419 performances, showing to approximately 420,000 patrons.

Productions

The production appealed especially to younger Viennese audiences. Subsequent to its world premiere in Vienna, the musical has toured around the world with productions in:

Austria: Theater an der Wien (1999 – 2001), World Premiere
Germany: Neue Flora (Stage Entertainment), Hamburg (September 21, 2001 – June 30, 2002)
Japan: Tokyo and Osaka (2002)
Hungary: Budapest (2003)
Sweden: Karlstad (2005)
Japan: Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka (2005)
Japan: Tokyo (2007)
Germany: Zwickau, Plauen (2008)
Czech Republic: Brno (2009)
South Korea: Seoul (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2023)
: Gwangju: (2010, 2014)
: Busan: (2010, 2014)
: Changwon: (2010, 2014)
: Daegu: (2010, 2014)
Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Kanazawa (2010-2011)
Japan: Tokyo (2014)
Austria: Vienna (2015)
China: Shanghai (2016)
Belgium: Antwerp (2017)
Japan: Tokyo (2018)
China: Beijing (2019)
Japan: Tokyo (2021)
Hungary: Veszprém (2022)
Japan: Tokyo (2024)

Recordings

The Vienna and Budapest productions released cast albums, as well as the Japanese and Korean productions. In addition to that, the Korean production released two DVDs with a different cast on each. A DVD and a cast album have been released based on the 2015 Vienna production. Japanese productions have released DVDs in 2014 and 2021.

Chart positions

Chart (1999–2000)	Peak
position

References

"帝国劇場　ミュージカル『モーツァルト！』".

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