Editing Antonio Salieri (section)

==Legacy==
Salieri and his music were largely forgotten from the 19th century until the late 20th century. This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in [[Peter Shaffer]]'s play ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' (1979), which was given its greatest exposure in its [[Amadeus (film)|1984 film version]], directed by [[Miloš Forman]]. His music today has regained some modest popularity via recordings. It is also the subject of increasing academic study, and a small number of his operas have returned to the stage. In addition, there is now a Salieri Opera Festival sponsored by the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri and dedicated to rediscovering his work and those of his contemporaries. It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago, where a theatre has been renamed in his honor.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.teatrosalieri.it/index.asp?m0=cartellone&tipo=Salieri_Opera_Festival|title=Salieri Opera Festival| website=Teatro Salieri| language=it|url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606232139/http://www.teatrosalieri.it/index.asp?m0=cartellone&tipo=Salieri_Opera_Festival| archive-date=6 June 2010| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===Modern performances of Salieri's work===
In 2003, [[mezzo-soprano]] [[Cecilia Bartoli]] released ''The Salieri Album'', a CD with 13 arias from Salieri's operas, most of which had never been recorded before. Patrice Michaels sang a number of his arias on the CD ''Divas of Mozart's Day''. In 2008, another female opera star, [[Diana Damrau]], released a CD with seven Salieri coloratura arias. Since 2000, there have also been complete recordings issued or re-issued of the operas ''Axur Re d'Ormus'', ''[[Falstaff (Salieri)|Falstaff]]'', ''[[Les Danaïdes]]'', ''La Locandiera'', ''[[La grotta di Trofonio]]'', ''[[Prima la musica e poi le parole]]'' and ''{{Interlanguage link|Il mondo alla rovescia|de}}''. Salieri has yet to fully re-enter the general repertory, but performances of his works are progressively becoming more regular.

His operas ''Falstaff'' (1995 production from the [[Schwetzingen Festival]]) and ''[[Tarare (opera)|Tarare]]'' (1987 production, also from the Schwetzingen Festival) have been released on DVD. In 2004, the opera ''[[Europa riconosciuta]]'' was staged in Milan for the reopening of [[La Scala]] in Milan, with soprano [[Diana Damrau]] in the title role. This production was also broadcast on television.

In November 2009, ''Il mondo alla rovescia'' was given its first staging in modern times at the Teatro Salieri in Legnago in a co-production between the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri and the Fondazione Arena di Verona for the Salieri Opera Festival.<ref>[http://www.teatrosalieri.it/index.asp?m0=cartellonedett&tipo=Salieri_Opera_Festival&page=0&id=3233 ''Il mondo alla rovescia''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722055405/http://www.teatrosalieri.it/index.asp?m0=cartellonedett&tipo=Salieri_Opera_Festival&page=0&id=3233 |date=22 July 2011 }}, Teatro Salieri – Salieri Opera Festival on teatrosalieri.it</ref> 
From 2009 to 2011 Antonio Giarola directed the Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://it.linkedin.com/in/antonio-giarola-4468693b|title=Antonio Giarola|date=2021-06-08}}</ref> From 2009 to 2012 Antonio Giarola also directed the ''Varietas Delectat'', a contemporary dance show inspired by the music of Antonio Salieri.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbrdancecompany.com/project/varietas-delectat/?lang=en|title=Varietas Delectat|date=2021-06-08}}</ref>

On 14 November 2011 in Graz, Austria, the hometown of the librettist [[Leopold Auenbrugger]], Salieri's ''Der Rauchfangkehrer'' was given its first modern production. In July 2014 there was another modern production of this Salieri opera. This time it was the [[Pinchgut Opera]] of Sydney, Australia, performing it as ''The Chimneysweep''.<ref>{{cite web| title=The Chimney Sweep| url=http://www.pinchgutopera.com.au/the-chimney-sweep/| publisher=Pinchgut Opera| date=2014}}</ref> ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' referred to it as the discovery of "a long-forgotten treasure".<ref>{{cite news| title=Pinchgut Opera rediscovers a long-forgotten treasure| first=Harriet | last=Cunningham| url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/pinchgut-opera-rediscovers-a-longforgotten-treasure-20140706-zsxya.html| date=6 July 2014| newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald| access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref>

===Use of music by Salieri in films===
Salieri has even begun to attract some attention from Hollywood. In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of ''[[The Last Castle]]'', featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jerry Goldsmith's Complete 'The Last Castle' Score to Be Released {{!}} Film Music Reporter |url=https://filmmusicreporter.com/2020/10/26/jerry-goldsmiths-complete-the-last-castle-score-to-be-released/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |language=en-US}}</ref> It is a story that builds on the rivalry between a meticulous but untested officer (Gandolfini) serving as the warden of a military prison and an imprisoned but much admired and highly decorated general (Redford). The Salieri piece is used as the warden's theme music, seemingly to invoke the image of jealousy of the inferior for his superior. In 2006, the movie ''[[Copying Beethoven]]'' referred to Salieri in a more positive light. In this movie, a young female music student hired by Beethoven to copy out his Ninth Symphony is staying at a monastery. The abbess tries to discourage her from working with the irreverent Beethoven. She notes that she too once had dreams, having come to Vienna to study opera singing with Salieri. The 2008 film ''[[Iron Man (2008 film)|Iron Man]]'' used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.<ref>{{Citation |title=Iron Man (2008) – IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/trivia |access-date=2022-11-01}}</ref> The scene where Obadiah Stane, the archrival of Tony Stark, the wealthy industrialist turned Iron Man, tells Tony that he is being ousted from his company by the board, Obadiah plays the opening few bars of the Salieri concerto on a piano in Stark's suite.

===Fictional treatments===
Salieri's life, and especially his relationship with Mozart, has been the subject of many stories, in a variety of media.
*Within a few years of Salieri's death in 1825, [[Alexander Pushkin]] wrote his "little tragedy" ''[[Mozart and Salieri (play)|Mozart and Salieri]]'' (1831), as a dramatic study of the sin of [[envy]].
*In 1898, Russian composer [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] adapted Pushkin's play, ''[[Mozart and Salieri (play)|Mozart and Salieri]]'' (1831), as an [[Mozart and Salieri (opera)|opera of the same name]].
*A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in [[Peter Shaffer]]'s play ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]'' (1979) and its [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-winning [[Amadeus (film)|1984 film adaptation]] directed by [[Miloš Forman]]. Salieri was portrayed in the award-winning play at London's [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] by [[Paul Scofield]], on Broadway by [[Ian McKellen]], and in the film by [[F. Murray Abraham]] (who won the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for the part). Abraham depicts Salieri as a Machiavellian, [[Iago]]-esque character, who uses his connections to keep Mozart as the underdog and slowly destroy Mozart's career.<ref>Grubert, Gernot "The Mozart Myths" (Stanford, California. Stanford University Press, 1991)</ref> 
*Salieri's supposed hatred for Mozart is also alluded to in a [[parody|spoof]] opera titled ''[[A Little Nightmare Music]]'' (1982), by [[P. D. Q. Bach]]. In the opera, Salieri attempts to [[poison]] an [[anachronism|anachronistic]] Shaffer but is bumped by a "clumsy oaf", which causes him to inadvertently poison Mozart instead and spill wine on his favorite coat.
*[[Patrick Stewart]] played Salieri in the 1985 production ''The Mozart Inquest''.<ref>{{cite book| last=Klossner| first=Michael| title=The Europe of 1500–1815 on film and television: a worldwide filmography of over 2550 works, 1895 through 2000| publisher=McFarland & Co| year=2002| page=267| isbn=978-0-7864-1223-5}}</ref>
*[[Florent Mothe]] portrays Salieri in the French musical ''[[Mozart, l'opéra rock]]'' (2009).
* C. Ian Kyer's first work of fiction is the historical novel ''Damaging Winds: Rumours that Salieri Murdered Mozart Swirl in the Vienna of Beethoven and Schubert'' (2013).<ref>{{cite book| last=Kyer| first=Ian C.| title=Damaging Winds: Rumours that Salieri Murdered Mozart Swirl in the Vienna of Beethoven and Schubert| url=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1548986746| date=2013}}</ref> Kyer was the co-author, with Bruce Salvatore, of the singspiel ''Setting the Record Straight: Mozart and Salieri Redux'',<ref>{{cite news| title=Ian Kyer: The man who wants to save Antonio Salieri| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/ian-kyer-the-man-who-wants-to-save-antonio-salieri/article29721844/| last=Harris| first=Robert| date=24 March 2017|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]| location=[[Toronto]]}}</ref> first performed by the [[Adler Fellowship|Adler Fellows]] of the [[San Francisco Opera]] Center in April 2016 under the direction of Erin Neff.<ref>{{cite web| title=Upcoming| url=https://erinneff.com/category/uncategorized| publisher=Erin Neff, Mezzo-Soprano| access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref>
*The [[HBO]] period drama telemovie, ''Virtuoso'' (2015), directed by [[Alan Ball (screenwriter)|Alan Ball]], is largely centred around the early life of Salieri.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alan Ball's Salieri Tale 'Virtuoso' Gets HBO Pilot Order With Elton John Producing |author=Amdreeva, Nellie Andreeva |date=27 January 2015 |url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/alan-ball-virtuoso-pilot-elton-john-salieri-hbo-1201360643/|work=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|4406218|Virtuoso}}</ref>
*Antonio Salieri, alongside Mozart, appears as a playable Avenger-class servant in the mobile game ''Fate/Grand Order''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[Ended] [Summon] Anastasia Pickup 2 Summon {{!}} Fate/Grand Order|url=https://webview.fate-go.us/iframe/2020/0402_anastasia_pu2/|access-date=2022-01-31|website=webview.fate-go.us}}</ref>