The British actor has played a tennis champ in Wimbledon opposite Kirsten Dunst, an albino assassin in The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks, and a synthezoid superhero in the Marvel films. And he ...

Paul Bettany has revealed how his own insecurities helped him unlock a raw, anguished portrayal of Antonio Salieri in Sky’s forthcoming Amadeus miniseries. The BAFTA-nominated star of WandaVision and ...

The first time Paul Bettany’s stuffy court composer Salieri sees Mozart is when he’s having sex. Bored and hungry at a Vienna society party, Salieri nips into an ante room where trays of delicacies ...

We sit down with two of the opera world’s leading figures, and masterminds of Brussels’ La Monnaie (De Munt) – how do they ...

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. I’ve been playing piano since I was four years old and I ...

Sky’s new drama Amadeus is an entertaining new take on Peter Shaffer’s original play about the rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (played by Will Sharpe) and the older composer Antonio Salieri ...

No music biopic comes close to Miloš Forman’s 1984 masterpiece, Amadeus. Adapted by Peter Shaffer from his own 1979 stage play – itself inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s poetic 1830 drama, Mozart and ...

‘I wonder if he could feel that he was writing something that would last forever?’ To get into the mindset of a famous historical figure, one who people across the world still know more than two ...

‘I wonder if he could feel that he was writing something that would last forever?’ To get into the mindset of a famous historical figure, one who people across the world still know more than two ...