Cultural Activity Report: Amadeus Research Assignment

Cultural Activity Report:
AMADEUS
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HUM 111
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Cultural Activity Report
For my cultural activity assignment, I decided to use the alternative assignment that involved the Amadeus play. I could not comfortably attend a cultural event within my area that suits this chapter better than the play. Amadeus is a community theater presentation. In the play, Robert Kowalewski is played by Antonio Salieri while Logan Williams plays Amadeus Mozart. For this report, I will describe the play and lay my opinion later on. Most of the play is narrated by Salieri. Amadeus starts with whispers from all over about the “assassin” and Salieri. This link alerts everyone that Salieri was involved in assassinating Mozart using Poison (Shaked, 2015).
Salieri is retired from working for Emperor Joseph II as a court composer and is of old age. As the crowd mutter, Salieri starts to speak to them promising to explain to them why he had to poison Mozart. Salieri takes the audience out of chronological order by going back to eighteen century; he changes his hair and robe. Now in his early days, performing his earlier role, Salieri is giving instructions to someone, a young lady on singing (Amadeus Part 1, n.d.). He explains how he has failed to touch her apart from pushing her diaphragm as a part of the instructions on the grounds that he is married. Salieri has dismissed all his servants leaving only two servants with him, the one who shaves him and one for cooking purposes.
Despite hearing a lot about Mozart the child prodigy, Salieri is yet to meet him. However, Salieri has two trusted “Whines” as he calls them, who snoop around the town. These “spies’ collect gossips and then report back to him (Shaked, 2015). One of the days, as they tour around, they get news that Mozart will be in town soon and report back to Mozart. In turn, Salieri opines to be nervous about the arrival. Moreover, his “spies” discover that Mozart will be visiting the house of Baroness Von Stiesen and that the same night his music will also be played.
Salieri purposes to attend the event. While at Baroness’ Salieri sits at the library’s high back seat to enjoy the “desolate tract” as usual. While in this room, a lady, Costanza, storm in squealing. Salieri finally meets Mozart. Here, Mozart starts to explain to him how he started working on the German opera that the king wanted to be shown at the National Theater. He further explains how he has completed his first play. Mozart states that he is working on making a love opera, but a “true love...