Metro Wines will host a viewing of the director’s cut of the movie Amadeus at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 13, to complement the Asheville Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Festival. Tickets are $20 and include popcorn and a glass of wine. The event is a fundraiser for the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Metro Wines is at 169 Charlotte St.
Here is a press release from Metro Wines about the event:
To celebrate the Mozart Festival hosted by the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, we will show the director’s cut of the movie Amadeus on Friday, March 13 at 6 p.m. at MetroWines. Cost is $20 for a glass of Austrian wine, popcorn and the movie. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Asheville Symphony Orchestra.
The 1984 film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound.
Plot Summary: Claiming to have murdered the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the now elderly Antonio Salieri recounts to a priest his dealings with the brilliant composer. Salieri was court composer to Austrian Emperor Joseph II when Mozart and he first met. The Emperor, a major patron of the arts, immediately commissioned Mozart to write an opera in German, rather than the customary Italian. Mozart is childish, arrogant, annoying and brilliant all at once and Salieri is simultaneously in awe and green with envy at his genius. Salieri uses Mozart’s difficult relationship with his father and his guilt over being a bad son to drive him slightly mad and into a downward spiral of ill health, leading to his death.
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