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00:00the sexual nature and scenes which some viewers may find distressing
00:10the emperor's permission me to write another opera fancy putting some words to the music
00:13but you're working for me he played me some of it from this time on we are enemies they don't
00:20see him much at church on sundays anymore you've stolen my labresses how's the marriage of mozart
00:26you're leaving vienna i saw you sing last year i still think about it you're writing it for your
00:31wife yes you could just talk to her this is how i talk november is a long time to be alone yes it is
00:39he's refusing to reveal what his opera is even about you're the capital master now salieri if
00:44the audience are moved to leave the theater and march on the palace demanding my head then you
00:48have my permission to shut it down our emperor rides to war and you incite a mob couldn't hear it could
00:54do you he had secured great mess
01:24well who could that be knocking up my door at this hour i had your footman call for a doctor on my
01:42way here a kindly physician come to administer a tonic or rough men with rough hands come to drag me away
01:50perhaps your treatment will depend on what i say to them
01:58i'd like you to finish your story capital master we still have time
02:03john would always puzzle me that in the moments of my greatest wickedness i was never punished
02:11the more abhorrent my behavior the more i waited for god's retribution and it never came
02:17in fact the opposite was true i was rewarded for it i watched bono die i was given his position
02:27i committed infidelities and nothing nothing ever happened
02:34but there are always consequences there is always a reckoning
02:48but this is what was wrong for me but i said they made a lot of time and i missed it
02:53so the one of my questions were not only on the one of them i'm going to admit that
02:58i'm going to admit to them that it's a real question but i know i am so
04:04The day has lost more pupils.
04:06Money became so tight he had to downsize his apartment.
04:10Even my introduction of Herr Susmeyer had yielded more than I expected.
04:15Oh, I love his music.
04:17I do.
04:17Ever since I heard it through the flowers of my mother's house, I've loved it.
04:21I don't know.
04:23What?
04:26It's not enough.
04:26Wolfgang?
04:42My leg has been troubling me and the doctor thinks some time away will be good for me.
04:48He thinks I should take the ward to Simbarten.
04:49What does he?
04:53Just for a month or two, maybe.
04:57Carl can go and stay with my mother and sisters for a while.
04:59I'll send for him later on.
05:00And you can have one of these if you like.
05:13I'll send word to you when I get there.
05:18Okay, Carl, before you go, should I show you a little magic trick?
05:21Are you listening?
05:36One more time.
05:37One more time.
05:37You see?
05:52Now that's in your head, when you go down for bed tonight, you might hear it.
05:56And then you'll think of me, won't you?
06:00Yeah.
06:00Yeah.
06:02There we go.
06:03You might hear it too.
06:10Michael.
06:11Oh, my God.
06:41Yes, but no more than the soldiers.
06:54What do you mean, your aunt?
06:55I heard some news this morning from my lodge.
06:59The masons. I'm a brother there, you know.
07:01Yes, I had heard that.
07:02We'd be very keen in having you join us, by the way.
07:05Bless you. But I serve only one master.
07:08Yes, of course.
07:09Well, this morning, I heard that one of our brotherhood had passed away suddenly.
07:15Oh, dear. Who?
07:19Who?
07:22Antonio.
07:23They told me this was, well, they told me this is where you're living now.
07:28Yes, what do you think?
07:30Oh, what?
07:30I'm joking. It's a shithole. I know it is.
07:33Don't worry. We'll be back somewhere nicer soon.
07:36Is, uh, the stanza here? No.
07:38She's in Barden.
07:39Do you know Barden?
07:40It's a lovely spa town.
07:42She gets this thing with her legs that waters help, apparently.
07:45I don't know.
07:46Well, it's sad.
07:50Your father has died.
07:57I received the news this morning from the brotherhood.
08:05Right.
08:06I see.
08:10I see.
08:12Um.
08:21Uh, when? When did he?
08:23Two days ago.
08:24I wanted to be the one to tell you.
08:28I thought it might help to have the news delivered by a friendly face.
08:35Is that where you are?
08:38Not so.
08:40Many composers view the Kappelmeister as an adversary, but I'm not.
08:45I'm really not.
08:48Of course.
08:49Well, thank you for letting me know.
08:58I prefer to be on my own now, though, I think.
09:03Of course.
09:05Absolutely.
09:09If you need anything,
09:12anything,
09:14my condolences, Wolfgang.
09:15I think I could have had a long time.
09:18All right.
09:20How long?
09:22I can't wait.
09:25I can't wait.
09:25I can't wait.
09:25I can't wait.
09:26I can't wait.
09:27I can't wait.
09:28I can't wait.
09:29ORGAN PLAYS
09:59Here rests a bird called Starling, a foolish little darling.
10:04He was still in his prime when he ran out of time,
10:08and my sweet little friend came to a bitter end.
10:13Gentle crowd shed a tear, for he was dear.
10:19I bet he is now up on high, praising my friendship to the sky.
10:25For when he took his sudden leave,
10:30which brought to me such grief,
10:34to a good companion.
10:41CHEERING
10:42That's the first time I've been to a bird's funeral, that's for sure.
10:54Well, he was quite a creature.
10:56CHEERING
10:58So far, I can even drop a if.
11:16Janeiro
15:21Does anyone know if we're winning?
15:24Winning what?
15:26The war.
15:26Of course we're winning.
15:32Yes, of course.
15:33Emphatic.
15:34Well, that's a relief.
15:36What did you think?
15:38I thought he looked pale.
15:40Mozart, did you see him swaying at the podium?
15:42He doesn't look well.
15:43Pulled him in drinking.
15:44Yeah, that's how he spends most of his time these days.
15:47I'm enjoying it.
15:48I found it rather, um...
15:51tuneful.
15:52Tuneful?
15:53Yes, tuneful.
15:55Antonio, wouldn't you agree?
15:57No, I wouldn't.
15:57I'd say the whole thing's rather thin so far.
16:00Let's hope the second half gives us something more to chew on.
16:13Don Giovanni...
16:26Don Giovanni...
16:28I watched that performance on opening night.
16:51I heard those words, I listened to that music, and I knew he'd opened himself up.
16:56Reveal the darkest parts of his being.
17:12I saw it then.
17:14His damaged mind, the naked ugliness, and his grief and guilt.
17:20There, in that demonic figure on the stage, was his own father.
17:26And in that poor, wretched philander of Mozart himself, punished for his sins, his puckish
17:33aboliance, his insolent virility.
17:35CHOIR SINGS
17:36CHOIR SINGS
17:37CHOIR SINGS
17:38COMMENT
17:55THEM
18:01The magical legend
18:04Just what's going on
18:06Make it now
18:08Ah
18:09The fern
18:11The fern
18:13The fern
18:15The fern
18:17The fern
18:19The fern
18:21The fern
18:23The fern
18:25The fern
18:27The fern
18:28The fern
18:32I saw his open wound
18:34And through it
18:36His barely beating heart
18:40And I knew exactly where in time
18:42I would place the final blade
18:48Bravo maestro
18:50It's
18:51Well it's a triumph
18:53Thank you
18:55You don't seem well sir
18:57Don't mind my saying
18:58Oh I'm fine
19:03I
19:04I didn't see your wife in the audience
19:07No
19:09She's still away
19:10Oh she's been gone a long time
19:13Well I hope you're looking after yourself
19:17The
19:19Brotherhood
19:20Has been looking after me
19:22The freemasons
19:24Yes
19:25They've been keeping me afloat
19:26Since
19:27Father died
19:28A few commissions
19:29It's all charity really
19:30But uh
19:31I'll pay them back when I can obviously
19:33Well I'm just glad to see you still have some
19:37Old friends looking out for you
19:38That's
19:39That's wonderful
19:40You really liked it?
19:43You really liked it?
19:49It was as though I were looking into your soul
19:52He had written a masterpiece again
20:06And I was nothing but a spectator
20:09But my power was undiminished
20:12My influence remained
20:13And I used it to ensure that Don Giovanni played only five times
20:22Of course I saw every one of those five performers
20:28And I wasn't the only one
20:29You know
20:35Your Majesty
20:37And I do
20:41I wondered whether you were going to come and say hello
20:43I'm sorry Your Majesty
20:45I didn't know if you want to be disturbed
20:48It's alright
20:52How is the war?
20:56How is the war?
20:59How is the war?
21:03I have all the music manuscripts sent to me
21:06At the front
21:07All the new work
21:10I uh
21:12I sit and try and read and
21:15And hear the music
21:17As I know you can
21:19But uh
21:21In my ears
21:23I'd love to be able to
21:25Have your ear
21:26To be able to sit and
21:27Hear the music and truly understand it
21:31Yeah
21:33My great regret
21:35What about this boy?
21:37What about this boy?
21:40What about this boy?
21:48My god Aunt Daddy had listened to this
21:50Do you ever marvel
21:53How lucky we are
21:55Out of all of human history
21:57To have
21:59Shared our time with music such as this
22:01I do
22:03I do
22:04You promised me one thing
22:16That you'll continue to commission new work
22:20For the people left behind
22:24For the people left behind
22:26And the men who returned
22:30Let there be music for them at least
22:33Of course you'll let us
22:34You'll notice
22:40There was so much trouble to do Antonia
22:43Andiam
22:45Andiam
22:47Andiam
22:49Andiam
22:52Andiam
22:54Andiam
22:55That was the last time I ever saw the Emperor
23:01He returned to the front
23:03And died six months later in his bed
23:09And with him
23:11Went your husband's most powerful ally
23:14Well it's not we have to shut down
23:17We love it, we believe in it
23:19I advocated for it
23:21But...
23:23With budgets as tight as they are
23:25I'm afraid it's just more cost effective to scrap it
23:30Well...
23:32The next one will be even better
23:34The next one?
23:36Yes
23:38Wolfgang
23:40Figaro
23:42Don Giovanni
23:44Your work is strong, we both know that
23:45The Imperial Opera
23:47It's not for everyone
23:49These big old holes
23:51They can be unforgiving
23:53It's not just you
23:55Everything's been cut
23:56I'm sorry
24:00Why can't they hear it?
24:05These are dark times, Mozart
24:08Perhaps the people desire light
24:15Night
24:18Night
24:21Night
24:23Fuck off please
24:25Fuck off
24:31Cheers
24:40High stroke
24:41We would like to formally invite you
24:44To the wake of Don Giovanni
24:47Thank you for inviting us in
24:49Thank you
24:51Thank you
24:55Down gentlemen please
24:57Oh!
24:58Thank you
25:05To another dead darling
25:07Hooray!
25:09To another dead darling
25:11Hooray!
25:13Hooray!
25:15Hooray!
25:17Hooray!
25:19Hooray!
25:21Hooray!
25:23Hooray!
25:25Excuse me?
25:27No, not so...
25:29So I'm sorry, I'm sorry to be bothering you
25:32Why are you doing it then?
25:33Uh...
25:35I'm a huge, huge...
25:37Admirer of yours
25:39He doesn't write the words, you know
25:41Sorry, who are you?
25:43Yeah, sorry, I'm Gregor, sir
25:45I'm...
25:47I'm Gregor Braun, I work backstage
25:49So we've never spoken
25:51Please
25:53So which of my works have you seen?
25:55Uh...
25:57I mean as many as I've been able to
25:59And I bought all of the pieces that I couldn't...
26:01That I could find
26:02So I've bought, um...
26:04The...
26:05The six piano sonatas
26:06published in Paris
26:07Uh...
26:08And the twelve various chansons
26:10Um...
26:11And then the Turkish march
26:13The piece from the A major sonata
26:15Wow, you really are an expert on him
26:18What did he have for dinner last night?
26:20Ooh!
26:21How low do his balls hang?
26:23Uh...
26:26I don't...
26:27I don't know everything about you, Maestro
26:29I...
26:30I just really, um...
26:32I really dream of emulating you
26:35Hm?
26:36I was ten years old
26:37When I first heard your work
26:40And it just felt as though...
26:44Yes?
26:49It felt as though the heavens were talking to me
26:52As though God was speaking through me
27:00Yes
27:05Well, let's see if you can speak back, shall we?
27:08Be rude not to
27:09What did you say your name was again?
27:10Um...
27:11Gregor
27:12Ah!
27:13Gregor, that's funny
27:14My father had a dog named Gregor
27:15Can you do tricks too?
27:16Uh...
27:17Come on, make yourself comfortable
27:18Show us what you can do
27:19Gather round, everyone!
27:20This is Gregor
27:21He's gonna play us some tunes
27:23Please!
27:24Don't be shy
27:25Come forward!
27:26Come forward!
27:28In your own time
27:29Shhh...
27:30...
27:40Mambe
27:41Ooh...
27:42...
27:43Bow
27:44I'm
27:45I'm
27:46I'm
27:47I'm
27:48I'm
27:49I'm
27:50I'm
27:51I'm
27:52I'm
27:53I'm
27:54Oh, gosh, well, there it is.
28:21What did everybody think?
28:22I'll tell you what I made of that.
28:24I recognize the notes, but very little else, as if the soul had been ripped out of it.
28:28Go on, please.
28:29Let's try another one.
28:30Surprise me.
28:31Uh, okay, I, uh, actually, this one's quite fun.
28:35I just, um, had an arrangement of one of your, uh, serenades for forte piano.
28:40Please.
28:41No, no, no, no, no, no.
28:48You're going to play that one, it's not like that, is it?
28:52It's like this.
28:54Can you hear the difference?
28:55Okay, start again.
28:56Wolfgang, why don't...
28:57Start again.
28:58Gregor, you tell me that you want to be a musician, and then you embarrass us both with this
29:09half-baked shit.
29:10I didn't say stop, keep playing, but for fuck's sake, Gregor, do it properly.
29:14I thought you liked my music.
29:16Why are you butchering it?
29:17Not like that.
29:18You're getting distracted.
29:19You have to focus on the music.
29:21Do you want my advice, Gregor?
29:25Find another dream.
29:26Find something you can actually do, and find some other composer to fawn over.
29:30Maybe you can waste his time instead.
29:43Did it make you feel good, humiliating that poor boy in front of everyone?
29:49When did you get back?
29:50This afternoon.
29:51So did you see it?
29:52What?
29:53From Giovanni, my opera, did you see it?
29:57Yes.
29:58And?
29:59What did you think?
30:021003 in Spain.
30:04Well, Lorenzo writes the words, so...
30:08Well, I know how you inspire him.
30:12Your leg seems much better.
30:15How was Barden?
30:17Good.
30:18How was Franz?
30:21Oh, so I'm the subject of gossip, am I?
30:23Well, you make yourself the subject of gossip.
30:25Do I?
30:26Yes.
30:27How?
30:28By carrying on.
30:29Like a...
30:30Like a what?
30:31Like a whore.
30:32Like a cheap...
30:33a fucking whore.
30:34Well, a cheap fucking whore is the only kind of whore you'd be able to afford, Wolfgang.
30:39Mother said you haven't been to see Carl but once.
30:44She said she saw you one morning and you were too drunk to even recognize your own son.
30:48Well, I would see more of my son if his mother wasn't constantly running off to moisten the balls of every inadequate fucking student musician to look her way.
30:55Well, yes, Franz did.
30:56He did look my way.
30:57He looked at me, yeah.
30:58He saw me.
30:59He spoke to me.
31:00He...
31:01He bothered to ask my opinion on things in the world beyond what you think of my fucking opera.
31:08What did you think of my fucking opera?
31:11I thought it was too fucking long.
31:25It made me sad.
31:31I was intruding on something I wasn't supposed to see.
31:38It made me realize everything I know about you.
31:40I've had to learn through your characters.
31:48And I wondered if you...
31:50If you could ever open up to me or...
31:53Just be stuck hoping that...
31:55Tigguro or Don Giovanni will tell me the things that you won't.
31:58You are supposed to see it.
32:02You're supposed to see it.
32:07You're supposed to see it.
32:10You can't stay with me.
32:20You can't stay with me.
32:24It isn't good to hear.
33:40And that's as much of a compliment as you'll get out of me, so don't look for any more.
33:49I hate this.
33:52What?
33:52The end of a party.
33:56I mean, obviously, Wolfgang, I'd be delighted to have you put something on here.
34:02I just assumed you'd be staging your next one at the Bird's here again.
34:04Oh, no, it's too stuffy.
34:07I feel like I need something more alive.
34:11Wait, that's us.
34:13Wait, we're alive all right.
34:15No, we're packed every weekend.
34:17Wolfgang, I can guarantee you a full house of excited music lovers.
34:21Desperate, desperate to be entertained.
34:24They won't just sit there like the aristocrats.
34:26No, they sing along.
34:28They dance.
34:29Like, they laugh.
34:30And on the takings, I can give you off.
34:34Oh.
34:36Well, if that's the best you can do, I suppose we'd better shake on that.
34:40I'm so pleased.
34:42He's very excited.
34:43I'm sure it's going to be a hit.
34:44And actually, between you and I, the Brotherhood owns the lease on the place, so it gets a cut of the takings as well.
34:49Well, everyone's doing very nicely.
34:52Mozart might be able to pay off his debts.
34:54Get back into the city.
34:59You're very quiet this morning, dear.
35:03Oh.
35:05Just in my thoughts.
35:08What are you thinking about?
35:12The Masons.
35:14Wolfgang!
35:16Gabble myself.
35:17I wanted to find you and congratulate you on your new commission.
35:20Oh, thank you.
35:21You were right, by the way.
35:22Much better to get away from the Burke Theatre.
35:23Well, I think it's wonderful news.
35:25Let's celebrate.
35:26Yes.
35:27So, tell me.
35:29What have you got so far?
35:31Love, sire.
35:33Excuse me?
35:34Do you remember?
35:35The first time I ever went to the Emperor's Palace, he asked me what a good German virtue might be.
35:40Ah, yes, yes, yes.
35:41You said love, sire.
35:43Yes.
35:45Love.
35:47I want to write about love.
35:49And light.
35:50I think it's a wonderful idea.
35:53Although it strikes me there are different kinds of love, aren't there?
35:57There's romantic love, certainly, but that feels pretty played out at this point.
36:01I mean, but what of maternal love, familial love, fraternal love?
36:07Eternal love, brotherly love.
36:09That's a thought, yeah.
36:10Brotherhood.
36:11I mean, that's what the Masons are all about.
36:13My father used to talk about it all the time.
36:15The sucker that we got from them.
36:16Perhaps...
36:16No, that's too much.
36:20What?
36:21No, no, no.
36:21It's a bad idea.
36:22What?
36:23Well, I was just thinking, why not put them into it?
36:29Into it?
36:30Show them in all their generosity.
36:32Let people see the kindness of the Masons.
36:35Well, the Brotherhood's rituals are a secret, of course.
36:37Needn't copy them exactly.
36:39You could adapt them.
36:40Change a few details here and there.
36:42One step away, but they're still recognisable.
36:44Change a few details, but keep the intention.
36:46I like it.
36:51In fact, I'm going to speak to DuPonte.
37:00Antonio.
37:01What a surprise.
37:04You've caught me at an inopportune time.
37:07Well, it's hard not to.
37:16Oh.
37:19Entertaining.
37:21Very.
37:22Um.
37:23Please.
37:25Sit soft.
37:26No, no.
37:27I think I'll come straight to the point, Lorenzo.
37:30There were people who were disturbed by your presence when you first arrived in Vienna.
37:34But I vouched for you.
37:36I saw something in you, and the Emperor was moved by your work.
37:39We all have been.
37:41Times are changing.
37:43The Emperor is unwell.
37:44He won't recover.
37:45His brother stands ready to take over when the time comes.
37:48It will be a rude awakening for many of us.
37:51He has none of Joseph's love of the arts.
37:55I expect budgets to tighten.
37:57I expect there to be a less liberal outlook.
38:03Formal notice that you were to be removed from your position as court poet and dismissed
38:08from Imperial service.
38:10Now, I'm afraid with the loss of both your patron and your position, questions have been raised
38:14about your continued residence here in Vienna.
38:18Figaro.
38:24Politics.
38:27How long do I have?
38:29Oh, I wouldn't linger.
38:35The mood is changing.
38:39You're a man out of time.
38:40Lorenzo?
38:54Lorenzo?
39:03Lorenzo?
39:03Lorenzo?
39:04Lorenzo?
39:08Let's go.
39:38Let's go.
40:08Hello, Wolfgang.
40:15Hello.
40:15Hello.
40:17Mother took Carl up to Barden to see Stanza.
40:20Oh.
40:20We would have told you, but you haven't been to visit, so...
40:23Would you like a seat, Wolfgang?
40:29How is Carl?
40:44He's well.
40:45He can basically talk now.
40:48And Sophie's been giving him piano lessons.
40:50He's very bad, but so am I.
40:54Have you heard from Constanza?
40:57She writes.
41:00Is she happy?
41:04She is.
41:05He's happy.
41:13He's happy.
41:16He's happy.
41:20He's happy.
47:41guide him over so into the darkness we go
48:11oh
48:37oh
48:41CHOIR SINGS
49:11CHOIR SINGS
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