"CSI: Mozart" investigates the 223-year-old mystery surrounding the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 35. The 85-minute classical music theatre program, artfully blends excerpts from Mozart's symphonies, operas, and concerti with live theatre, musical insight and medical analysis evaluating theories as to possible causes of death: Acute Military Fever? Excessive Bloodletting? Poison? Schonlein-Henoch Syndrome? Bacterial Endocarditis? Rheumatic Fever? Kidney Failure? Or something else? |
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WORLD PREMIERE
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2014 Marin Alsop Music Director & Conductor Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Playwright & Stage Director: Didi Balle February 28 , 2014: Strathmore Performing Arts Center March 1, 2014: Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore Commission: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra CAST William J. Dawson, MD (CSI Medical Expert) Sasha Olinick (Mozart) Tony Tsendeas (Lorenzo Da Ponte) Richard Pilcher (Leopold Mozart and Antonio Salieri) Hyla Matthews (Constanze Mozart and Nannerl Mozart) |