Signalling one of many greatest European packages to hit Monday’s Mipcom, “Mozart/Mozart,” the newest huge collection swing from Germany’s Story Home Footage, behind Beta Movie/RTL mega-hit “Sisi,” has been boarded by Germany’s ARD and its Austrian public broadcaster counterpart ORF.
In additional information, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, co-director of “The Zweiflers,” this yr’s Canneseries finest collection and German TV Awards winner, is ready to helm the collection.
Primarily based on considered one of Europe’s largest IPs and now backed by ARD, the largest of Europe’s public broadcasters, “Mozart/Mozart” is created by Andreas Gutzeit – co-founder of Story Home Footage, the worldwide studio of the Bavaria Movie Group, and producer and showrunner on “Sisi” – and Swantje Oppermann, a employees author on “Dignity” and a Story Home improvement govt.
Bavaria Media Worldwide will convey the six-part present to market at Mipcom.
“Mozart/Mozart” is an element impressed by historic reality. Maria Anna Mozart was hailed as a toddler prodigy. When performing with little brother Wolfgang Amadeus, she obtained high billing. Even when compelled to cease performing in public when she attained a marriageable age, she continued to compose, however her music was misplaced and by no means carried out in public.
“Far too usually, girls have been written out of historical past, ‘Mozart/Mozart’ writes Maria Anna Mozart again in,” the creators stated. They achieve this in a full-throttle plot that kicks off when, already a rockstar, after a very show-stopping efficiency, Mozart is sacked as composer of the Salzburg courtroom.
The Mozarts face monetary wreck except Maria Anna marries a person 20 years her senior. As a substitute, the 2 flee to Vienna to vie for a gig as a conductor on the Emperor Joseph II’s courtroom. However then Amadeus injures his hand, and succumbs to a close to insanity. To save lots of the household’s funds, Maria Anna steps up and with Amadeus’ assist, pretends to be him – underneath these colourful wigs and loopy costumes, no person can inform the distinction.
Maria Anna conducts to wild acclaim, and finds success and freedom as “Mozart,” whereas Amadeus crashes and burns, confined to a clinic. To complicate issues, Maria Anna additionally falls in love with Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s rival.
Andreas Gutzeit, Swantje Oppermann, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim
Credit: Ingo Böhm/René Fitzek
“Mozart/Mozart” will go into manufacturing in 2025, additionally releasing subsequent yr.
“Mozart is a world model that has been profitable for over 250 years. ‘Mozart/ Mozart’ continues this success, by telling a wild drama about a rare musician who was pushed out of the limelight when she was a lady and who reclaims her spot in a most extraordinary approach as a lady,” stated Gutzeit.
The collection is ready at Vienna within the 1780s, dominated by an Emperor who was a rare patron of the humanities. The town was the leisure capital of Europe which really involves life at evening, be it on the unique after exhibits for Vienna’s VIPs or at extreme events, the place entire 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 huge, extravagant, flamboyant and wild.
“The purpose is to recreate the feelings that folks might need felt after they listened to Mozart’s music at the moment, to let the viewers expertise what was so particular, touching and so new about this music and to create a particular visible fashion, which requires boldness and a few punkiness,” My-Linh von Arnim advised Selection.
“On the music degree it’ll convey one thing actually new and edgy to the display, however it’ll nonetheless be extremely popular and accessible to trendy audiences.” she added.
“The visible idea may be very trendy and generally poppy however that may by no means work towards the characters and their feelings. It simply elevates them, brings them and the drama out.”
The costumes and areas of the collection will, thus, be as present stopping and eye-popping as its characters. “In her brother‘s showy outfits, Maria Anna will convey the home down,” Gutzeit promised.
“Mozart/Mozart” may even have a really pronounced upstairs/downstairs factor to it and can signify Vienna’s avenue musicians as prominently because the virtuosos at courtroom, stated My-Linh von Arnim. “This distinction is entrance and heart to the collection,” she noticed.
The collection points are eminently related as we speak, they each insisted.
“At its coronary heart, it is a trendy feminine empowerment story, however way more than only a lady discovering her place. Maria Anna has to consider in herself, consider in her expertise, solely then does she come into her personal. That is very relatable to a younger viewers,” stated Gutzeit.
As Maria Anna, disguised, turns into the star of Vienna, Amadeus returns, his psychological well being and dependancy worsening as he fears he’s being changed by his sister.
The collection can be about “how to achieve success and revered as a lady again in these occasions whereas additionally discovering your home in a relationship which is definitely a timeless battle, My-Linh von Arnim famous.
The Mozarts will uncover, nevertheless, collectively they’re much better than working aside.
Theirs’ shouldn’t be the one sibling relationship within the collection, nevertheless.
From 1780, Joseph II, considered considered one of Europe’s most interesting monarchs, put into observe the concepts of the Enlightenment, reminiscent of peasant’s proudly owning small landholdings, which made him extra progressive than many European governments as we speak.
Through 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 certainly threatened by her brother’s political agenda. She torpedoes her brother’s reforms.
Made for mass audiences, however particularly youthful viewers, “Mozart/Mozart” is about “household, and sibling love, and about expertise and future, transgression and oppression, energy and abuse, hate and love, and naturally music… a number of music,” stated Gutzeit.
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