Signalling one in all many best European packages to hit Monday’s Mipcom, “Mozart/Mozart,” the most recent large assortment swing from Germany’s Story House Footage, behind Beta Film/RTL mega-hit “Sisi,” has been boarded by Germany’s ARD and its Austrian public broadcaster counterpart ORF.
In further data, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, co-director of “The Zweiflers,” this yr’s Canneseries most interesting assortment and German TV Awards winner, is able to helm the gathering.
Based on thought-about one in all Europe’s largest IPs and now backed by ARD, the biggest of Europe’s public broadcasters, “Mozart/Mozart” is created by Andreas Gutzeit – co-founder of Story House Footage, the worldwide studio of the Bavaria Film Group, and producer and showrunner on “Sisi” – and Swantje Oppermann, a staff writer on “Dignity” and a Story House enchancment govt.
Bavaria Media Worldwide will convey the six-part current to market at Mipcom.
“Mozart/Mozart” is a component impressed by historic actuality. Maria Anna Mozart was hailed as a toddler prodigy. When performing with little brother Wolfgang Amadeus, she obtained excessive billing. Even when compelled to stop performing in public when she attained a marriageable age, she continued to compose, nonetheless her music was misplaced and under no circumstances carried out in public.
“Far too often, women have been written out of historic previous, ‘Mozart/Mozart’ writes Maria Anna Mozart once more in,” the creators acknowledged. They obtain this in a full-throttle plot that kicks off when, already a rockstar, after a really show-stopping effectivity, Mozart is sacked as composer of the Salzburg courtroom.
The Mozarts face financial wreck besides Maria Anna marries an individual 20 years her senior. Instead, the two flee to Vienna to vie for a gig as a conductor on the Emperor Joseph II’s courtroom. Nonetheless then Amadeus injures his hand, and succumbs to a near madness. To avoid wasting a lot of the family’s funds, Maria Anna steps up and with Amadeus’ help, pretends to be him – beneath these vibrant wigs and crazy costumes, no particular person can inform the excellence.
Maria Anna conducts to wild acclaim, and finds success and freedom as “Mozart,” whereas Amadeus crashes and burns, confined to a clinic. To complicate points, Maria Anna moreover falls in love with Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s rival.
Andreas Gutzeit, Swantje Oppermann, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim
Credit score: Ingo Böhm/René Fitzek
“Mozart/Mozart” will go into manufacturing in 2025, moreover releasing subsequent yr.
“Mozart is a world mannequin that has been worthwhile for over 250 years. ‘Mozart/ Mozart’ continues this success, by telling a wild drama a couple of uncommon musician who was pushed out of the limelight when she was a woman and who reclaims her spot in a most extraordinary method as a woman,” acknowledged Gutzeit.
The gathering is prepared at Vienna throughout the 1780s, dominated by an Emperor who was a uncommon patron of the humanities. The city was the leisure capital of Europe which actually entails life at night, be it on the distinctive after reveals for Vienna’s VIPs or at excessive occasions, the place total livelihoods are gambled away, opium is the coke of its time, and intercourse is a commodity that’s traded freely.
A promo reel suggests “Mozart/Mozart” shall be large, extravagant, flamboyant and wild.
“The aim is to recreate the emotions that people may want felt after they listened to Mozart’s music for the time being, to let the viewers experience what was so specific, touching and so new about this music and to create a specific seen vogue, which requires boldness and some punkiness,” My-Linh von Arnim suggested Choice.
“On the music diploma it’ll convey one factor truly new and edgy to the show, nonetheless it’ll nonetheless be extraordinarily in style and accessible to modern audiences.” she added.
“The seen thought could also be very stylish and customarily poppy nonetheless which will under no circumstances work in the direction of the characters and their emotions. It merely elevates them, brings them and the drama out.”
The costumes and areas of the gathering will, thus, be as current stopping and eye-popping as its characters. “In her brother‘s showy outfits, Maria Anna will convey the house down,” Gutzeit promised.
“Mozart/Mozart” might also have a actually pronounced upstairs/downstairs issue to it and may signify Vienna’s avenue musicians as prominently as a result of the virtuosos at courtroom, acknowledged My-Linh von Arnim. “This distinction is entrance and coronary heart to the gathering,” she seen.
The gathering factors are eminently associated as we converse, they every insisted.
“At its coronary coronary heart, it’s a stylish female empowerment story, nonetheless far more than solely a woman discovering her place. Maria Anna has to think about in herself, think about in her experience, solely then does she come into her private. That could be very relatable to a youthful viewers,” acknowledged Gutzeit.
As Maria Anna, disguised, turns into the star of Vienna, Amadeus returns, his psychological properly being and dependancy worsening as he fears he’s being modified by his sister.
The gathering will be about “easy methods to obtain success and revered as a woman once more in these events whereas moreover discovering your private home in a relationship which is unquestionably a timeless battle, My-Linh von Arnim well-known.
The Mozarts will uncover, nonetheless, collectively they’re a lot better than working apart.
Theirs’ shouldn’t be the one sibling relationship throughout the assortment, nonetheless.
From 1780, Joseph II, thought-about thought-about one in all Europe’s most attention-grabbing monarchs, put into observe the ideas of the Enlightenment, harking back to peasant’s proudly proudly owning small landholdings, which made him additional progressive than many European governments as we converse.
Via his sister Marie Antoinette, married to the French king, he engaged in a philosophical battle between the Austrian and French monarchies as to how Europe is dominated. Arduous partying Marie Antoinette’s privileged existence in Austria is actually threatened by her brother’s political agenda. She torpedoes her brother’s reforms.
Made for mass audiences, nonetheless notably youthful viewers, “Mozart/Mozart” is about “family, and sibling love, and about experience and future, transgression and oppression, vitality and abuse, hate and love, and naturally music… various music,” acknowledged Gutzeit.
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