Amadeus Live

Last night was the MPO live performance of the brilliant, multi award winning movie Amadeus.

I remember watching this movie when I was in the University, sometime in 1984 or 1985. I watched it with my then friend at Lido cinema. I loved the movie and the music. Although I knew some of Mozart’s pieces then, it was through this movie that I got to know many of his works, especially the choral works and his operas. Over the years I have bought so many different versions of this movie in so many formats, the video, LD, DVD and finally the itunes version.

But yesterday was special because the music and chorals were live. The performance by the MPO was very good and it was synchronized so well with the movie. I felt the live performance enhanced the movie and I appreciated the movie so much more.

I can only imagine the amount of time the orchestra and the choir would have spent rehearsing for this one night performance. Especially since there are so many different pieces they needed to play. I remember the CD version of this movie was double disc.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and am so glad that I snagged this once in a lifetime opportunity of seeing one of my all time favorite movies live, played by a very good orchestra conducted by their guest conductor, Benjamin Pope.

ps.. after the performance, I was clapping so hard that I lost my Indian Alexandrite ring which was on my pinky finger. Luckily I realised that it had slipped out and after a very anxious minute or so, I found it. Learning lesson.. resize the ring asap.