Mozart

About the show

In 1778 Paris, the young Mozart visits the salon of Madame d’Épinay, where Marie-Anne de Saint-Pons is being pressed to marry the Marquis de Chambreuil. Mozart entertains the company and later composes pieces while flirting with the dancer La Guimard and corresponding with Aloysia Weber in Mannheim. His attention to Marie-Anne also angers the Marquis, while Louise’s fiancé reproaches her for flirting with Mozart. Baron Grimm reveals that he arranged with Mozart’s father to hasten the composer’s departure. Mozart reluctantly bids farewell to the women and to Paris.