Michael Sheen plays Salieri opposite Callum Scott Howells’s Mozart in the first major revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus in over a decade, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Michael Sheen plays Salieri opposite Callum Scott Howells as Mozart in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus at the Noël Coward Theatre in Covent Garden from Saturday 17 April 2027. The season runs to Saturday 7 August.
Shaffer’s play opened at the National Theatre in London on 2 November 1979, then moved to the West End and Broadway. It won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play, and Shaffer adapted it for the 1984 film.
It opens in Vienna in 1820, as the court composer Antonio Salieri confesses to a campaign against the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
This is the first major revival of the play in over a decade. It is also the first time two Welsh actors have taken the two roles.
Jeremy Herrin directs. Sheen’s recent stage work includes Nye at the National Theatre, and Scott Howells is known for the television series It’s A Sin and for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.