Amadeus - Theatrical Stage play - Peter Shaffer

Written by Peter Shaffer
Read by Paul Scofield, Simon Callow, Felicity Kendall, full cast
Format: M4B
Dramatization

Peter Shaffer’s award-winning play combines fiction and history to detail the final years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Antonio Salieri, an older composer, propelled by jealousy, plots the tragic downfall of his brilliant rival.

This is Sir Peter Hall’s production, first broadcast in 1983 and recorded with the original National Theatre cast.

- Antonio Salieri ….. Paul Scofield
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ….. Simon Callow
- Constanze Mozart ….. Felicity Kendall
- Joseph II ….. John Normington
- Gottfried Baron Van Sweiten ….. Nicholas Selby
- Count Franz Orsini Rosenberg ….. Willoughby Goddard
- Johann Killian Von Strack ….. Basil Henson
- Venticelli ….. Donald Gee, Dermot Crawley
- Citizens of Vienna ….. Nigel Bellairs, Susan Gilmore, Peggy Marshall, Robin Meredith, Anne Sedgwick, William Sleigh, Glenn Williams

Directed by Peter Hall
Producer David Spenser.

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A Note on Audio Metadata

One of my frustrations with the audio content I download from ABB is the amount of time I always need to spend fixing the metadata and adding cover art to make it work nicely with Plex/Prologue. With that in mind, all audio content I share on ABB will always have complete and correct metadata, including:

- Author and Title
- Description (using the DESCRIPTION field read that can read by Plex)
- Narrator (using the COMPOSER field which can be read by Prologue)
- Genre Tags (I add all relevant Genres typically taken from Goodreads. These can be used to create smart collections in Plex.)
- Cover Art (I always use the highest resolution image I can find. Where none exists, I will find a suitable image from the internet - often r/audiobookcovers - or create one based on existing artwork.

Furthermore, the audio will always be in m4b format (to support chapter markers and ensure Plex can read the Description tag). The audio will always be correctly chapterized, where necessary, and chapter markers will be correctly named.

This means that all content I share here can be considered Plex/Prologue-ready with all metadata and artwork included. I hope this encourages others to do the same.

(FYI: I typically add metadata using kid3 and chapter markers using Ocenaudio.)