First performed in 1925 at the Edouard VII Theater, the musical comédie Mozart was born from the meeting of playwright and actor Sacha Guitry and composer Reynaldo Hahn. Guitry had written the play for his wife, the great actress Yvonne Printemps, and together to she, after the premiere to Paris, successfully took it on tour to cities such as New-York, Montreal and Boston: she as Mozart, he as Baron Grimm.
The subject arose from the intuition to bring together the Parisian salons of the early 1900s, in which both Guitry and Hahn were protagonists, and those that the 22-year-old Mozart frequented during his second stay in Paris, when the French nobility failed to recognize the exceptional maturity he had acquired from that child prodigy they had so applauded years earlier.
The affair takes place in the salons of Baron Grimm, Mozart's protector, where the young genius, finally free from his father's strict control, is the object of interest from by ladies of all ages and walks of life, becoming the protagonist of mild and amusing love games.

"There is Mozart but not his music, there is some Marivauxdage but without Marivaux, there is the Age of Enlightenment but with other lights. In short, what is it? It is an impertinent play, an erudite and elegant pastiche born of Sacha Guitry's decapitating genius with the refined and ironic complicity of Reynaldo Hahn.It all takes place in a 1920s Parisian salon, from which Marcel Proust passed through and in which lost time is found through remote characters and happenings, which are revived in an utterly natural contemporary."
Pier Luigi Pizzi

Sacha Guitry

French actor, director, playwright and screenwriter born to San Pietroburgo in 1885. Author of more than 120 plays, many of which he also starred in. Protagonist of Parisian society and husband of actress and singer Yvonne Printemps. His film production as both actor and director was important. His activity is basically related to the comedy boulevardière. He died to Paris in 1957.

Reynaldo Hahn
French composer, conductor, writer and music critic. Born to Caracas in 1875, he moved with his family to Paris at the age of three. A child prodigy, he studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jules Massenet. Famous for his opera vocals, bound from a deep friendship to Marcel Proust, he wrote operas, operettas, musical comedies, orchestral music, from chamber and stage music. Several times during his career he was conductor in stagings of Mozart's operas, including at the Salzburg Festival. For many years he was music critic of Figaro. At the end of the war, in 1945, he was appointed director of the Paris Opéra, the city in which he died in 1947.

Jean-Luc Tingaud
After studying piano and conducting at the Paris Conservatory of Music, Jean-Luc Tingaud was chosen as an assistant from Manuel Rosenthal, a student of Maurice Ravel, who sparked in him a passion for French music. In 1997 he founded to Paris "OstinatO," an orchestra from chamber composed of from young musicians. The orchestra has performed at many French theaters, including the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Opéra in Bordeaux, the Opéra in Nice, the Imperial Theater in Compiègne, and at many of France's most prestigious music festivals. The orchestra has also been invited to to give a series of concerts for young people at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, and since 2007 it has been commissioned as the permanent orchestra for the series of concerts held at the Bibliotèque Nationale.
opera constitutes one of Jean-Luc Tingaud's main interests: among the many operas from he has conducted are Fauré's Pénélope, Massenet's Sapho and Auber's Manon Lescaut at the Wexford Festival, Hahn's Ciboulette for Opera Zuid, Offenbach's The Island of Tulipatan, The Marriage of Figaro at the Mogador Theater to Paris, and Poulenc's La voce umana and Offenbach's La Périchole to Compiègne.
His most recent engagements include Gounod's Mireille, Elisir d'amore, La Bohème, Così fan tutte and Carmen at the Théâtre d'Herblay to Paris, Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos to Lisbon, Tosca to Besançon, Werther at the Festival della Valle d'Itria to Martina Franca, Poulenc's I dialoghi delle carmelitane to Saint-Etienne, Vaughan Williams' Riders to the sea to Reims, Véronique to Metz, and Debussy's Pélleas et Melisande at the Opéra de Toulon. His recordings include the recording of Sapho made to Wexford, the Werther recorded to Martina Franca, Adam's La Péricole and Le Toréador recorded to Compiègne, The Hidden Treasures of the Frenchopera , recording of arias d'opera performed by soprano Anne-Sophie Schmidt with the Budapest Orchestra ofOpera , and the first recording of Manuel Rosenthal's Chansons du Monsieur Bleu, performed by tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt. From 2002 to 2007 Jean-Luc Tingaud was associate conductor of the Opéra Comique, where he conducted Donizetti's Rita, Adam's Le toréador, Saint-Saëns' La princesse jaune, Boieldieu's Le calife de Bagdad, Offenbach's Les bavards, Poulenc's Le mammelle di Tiresia, and Ibert's Angelique. In 2004 he made his debut at the Barbican in London conducting the English Chamber Orchestra with soloists Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis. Since 2006 he has been associate conductor of the Grand Théâtre de Reims, where this season he conducted Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.

Pier Luigi Pizzi
is an internationally renowned director, set and costume designer. Born to Milan, he trained at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and in theater alongside to Giorgio Strehler. Of particular importance was his 25-year association with Giorgio De Lullo and the "Compagnia dei Giovani." He has a very long career of at least 500 performances to his credit. He opened the Wortham Center in Houston in '87 with Verdi's Aida, and in '90 the Opéra Bastille with Berlioz's Les Troyens, after ten years in Parisian theaters. In 2005 he participated in the reopening of the Teatro alla Scala with Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta. At this theater in more than forty years of activity he has linked his name to memorable performances such as Gluck's Armide to Lehár's recent Die Lustige Witwe. He opened Ancona's Teatro delle Muse with Mozart's Idomeneo, and here he staged Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers and Hindemith's Neues Vom Tage. Of importance is his collaboration with the Teatro Real in Madrid whose 2005 season he opened with Verdi's Traviata and where he is currently staging Monteverdi's Trilogy. He has for thirty years attended the Rossini Opera Festival, at the center of major Rossini rediscoveries. He has also had many years of collaboration with the Teatro La Fenice in Venice where he has created such famous performances as Bach's La Passione Secondo Giovanni, and the more recent Massenet's Thaïs, Britten's Death in Venice, and Korngold's Die Tote Stadt.
His successes at the Opéra de Monte Carlo have earned him the title of Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite Culturel. A great many other honors have been bestowed on him: the title of Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, and Officier des Arts et des Lettres in France, the Rubinstein Prize "A Life in Music," the honorary citizenship of the city of Bibbiena, the keys to the city of Venice, the Laurea Honoris Causa at the University of Macerata, and then at least 8 Abbiati Awards from the Italian Music Critics. A recent return to prose theater of his own with Goldoni's Una delle ultime sere di carnevale was hailed with great acclaim and rewarded by receiving the Olympic and Critics' Awards for best director of the year.
Since 2006 he has been artistic director of the Sferisterio Opera Festival, to Macerata.
He returns to Spoleto after D´amore si muore by Giuseppe Patroni Giffi performed in the Festival´s inaugural year and after Molière´s memorable Malato Immaginario, which starred the unforgettable Romolo Valli.

Jean Sorel
Born to Marseilles, Jean Sorel left his hometown in 1944, just before the German occupation arrived there, and moved to Paris, where he began studies for a diplomatic career at the Ecole Normale Superieure. By a fortuitous chance he substitutes for an actor friend in the theater, and his passion for acting causes him to immediately abandon his studies. His film career debut came in 1959, with a secondary role in the film J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, by Michel Gast, and success came as early as the following year with Jacques Bourdon's Les lionceux. Throughout his brilliant career he was directed from great directors such as Luis Buñuel (Bella di giorno), Sidney Lumet (Vu du pont), Roger Vadim (La ronda), Luchino Visconti (Vaghe stelle dell'orsa), Dino Risi (L'ombrellone), Alberto Lattuada (L'amica), and many others. In theater he starred in Alice par d'obscurs chemins, and in 2001 in Candido, ovvero... by Leonardo Sciascia.

Sophie Haudebourg
She began her musical studies with the study of the violin, before turning to singing at the age of sixteen. A finalist in the "Voix Nouvelles" competition in 1998, she joined to the company of the Opéra Nationale de Lyon, with which she participates to numerous productions: Albert Herring's L'Enfant e les Sortilèges, The Rape of Lucretia, Mozart's The Magic Flute as Papagena, and La Petite Renarde Rusée (Chocholka), a role she will reprise at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. She began her career by performing the role of Sophie in Werther, that of Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Musetta in La Bohème.
In recent years, she has worked in France and abroad; she has performed Jenufa (Jano) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Javotte in Manon at the Opéra de Avignon, La Périchole at the Opéra Comique, Elle in L'Amour Masqué at the Edinburgh Festival, Pauline in La Vie Parisienne at the Opéra de Bordeaux, and Nadia in The Merry Widow at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and the Opéra Comique.
In April 2009, the Opéra de Nice welcomed Sophie Haudebourg for Gluck's Orpheus as Amore.

Orchestra J. Futura
Founded in August 2006 at the behest of Trentino entrepreneur Paola Stelzer and Maurizio Dini Ciacci, who becomes its artistic director, the Orchestra, formed from young people aged between 18 and 30 years, is configured as an ensemble endowed with great stylistic and performing versatility evidenced from an activity among which stand out: the realization of F.Opera . Poulenc's La Voix humaine at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and the Teatro Malibran in Venice in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro la Fenice, a series of concerts in Austria, participation in important festivals and concert events (Verona, Barga, Bertinoro, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Mozart Festival in Rovereto, Festival della Wallonie in Belgium, and two prestigious performances at the European Parliament and the Council of Europe to Brussels). In collaboration with the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Pianistico in Imola, it has initiated a series of concerts accompanying talented young soloists.
In 2009 the Orchestra will be present at the Venice Biennale and, during the summer, under the name J. Futura International, it will give life to an ensemble including Italian, Portuguese and French musicians in order to inaugurate an activity and an extended network of relationships to European level. to from November 2009 until April 2010 the Orchestra will be engaged in a Mozart project to Rome in collaboration with the Philharmonic Academy. All projects that the Orchestra carries out are preceded from a preparatory phase carried out from qualified section teachers. Maurizio Dini Ciacci, as artistic director of the Orchestra, transfers to the ensemble the experience as a musician gained during his career in Italy and abroad.

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