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44 best classic movies on Netflix right now

Netflix's library contains numerous classic movies for subscribers to rewatch or discover for the first time. Here are our picks for the best to watch right now.

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Amadeus: cast, plot, first looks and everything you need to know about the Mozart drama series

Amadeus is a period drama series starring Will Sharpe as genius music composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Will Sharpe To Portray Mozart In Sky Original Series

Will Sharpe stars as Mozart in Sky Original series Amadeus, exploring rivalry with Salieri in 18th century Vienna.

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‘John McEnroe was my reference point’: how we made hit Mozart movie Amadeus

‘I was told my laugh wasn’t extreme enough. So I got through an entire bottle of Jack Daniel’s getting its idiot sound right’

The Guardian - UK

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

Chicago Sun-Times

Playing Newborn Babies Mozart Relieved Their Pain

Playing Mozart lullabies to babies helped to reduce their discomfort during blood tests.

Zenger

7 best new to Prime Video movies to watch this month august 2023

August 2023's list of new to Prime Video movies features these great gems that deserve a watch

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Five things you can do this weekend

Amadeus, Hay Fever and cabaret are happening.

The Canberra Times

Book Review: ‘Mozart in Motion’ by Patrick Mackie seeks to bring composer to life in new ways

Writing a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nowadays is no easy task

The Independent UK

Is it smart to be a ‘stupid genius’ like Elon Musk?

Personality quirks can be a tactic. Leaders emerge by rising up to group norms–and earn the right to be quite non-conforming.

Fortune

'Chevalier' review: A stirring tribute to a virtuoso nearly erased by history

"Chevalier" begins with a showdown sequence so irresistible it really doesn't matter if it ever actually happened. In a jewel-box Paris theater sometime in the second half of the 18th century, a young violinist (Joseph Prowen) leads an orchestra, practically dancing in his glee at performing. "My name is Wolfgang…

Tribune News Service

Beautiful ‘Chevalier’ fills in the gaps, fictionally, about fascinating Black composer

Film is a worthwhile bio of the scholar, fencer and virtuoso violinist with effective acting, tension and sumptuous production.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ an Erased Figure Gets a Lush Biopic

Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous and sought-after composer who wrote string quartets, symphonies and operas. His influence was vast, but he was all but erased from history books…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chevalier review: Kelvin Harrison Jr. demands your attention in historical drama

Kelvin Harrison Jr. stars in Chevalier, a historical drama about the gifted Black French composer that lived during the French Revolution.

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The Guardian - US

‘Why has this person been erased?’: the untold story of the Black French maestro

In rousing new historical drama Chevalier, the story of Joseph Bologne, often crudely referred to as ‘Black Mozart’, is finally given the spotlight it deserves

Daily Mirror

The grisly deaths of the great composers show how some met an unfortunate end

From murders to parasitic disease and sexually transmitted infections, here’s how some of the most celebrated classical composers in history met their makers

The Conversation

We used DNA from Beethoven's hair to shed light on his poor health – and stumbled upon a family secret

Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve been trying to play Mozart for 60 years. On this, my last recording, I think I’ve finally cracked it’

Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble

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The Hindu

Chromatics Ensemble will perform operatic music from across centuries

Chromatics, an ensemble of soloists, returns to the stage with a concert at Goethe Institut

The Hindu

NCPA musicians come to Chennai with Mozart’s Overture to the ‘Marriage of Figaro’

For the first time since the pandemic began, the Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the national stage with a series of concerts outside of its hometown Mumbai

Bangkok Post

Hear works of three master composers

The Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra will take music lovers to explore the power of the orchestra in a classical programme of works by three of history's most renowned composers of orchestral music.

Total Film

The 25 best Oscar-winning movies you should watch before you die

Make sure you tick these award-winning movies off your watch list this Oscar season

Bangkok Post

RBSO serves up a treat

Roeland Hendrikx, a renowned Belgian clarinetist, enthralled the audience earlier this month at the Thailand Cultural Centre with an engaging performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto In A Major. The concerto was the last instrumental composition Mozart wrote just before his death for Anton Sadler, one of the most…

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