Signalling one of the hugegest European packages to hit Monday’s Mipcom, “Mozart/Mozart,” the tardyst huge series sprosperg from Germany’s Story Hoengage Pictures, behind Beta Film/RTL mega-hit “Sisi,” has been boarded by Germany’s ARD and its Austrian accessible widecaster counterpart ORF.
In further novels, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, co-straightforwardor of “The Zweiflers,” this year’s Canneseries best series and German TV Awards prosperner, is set to helm the series.
Based on one of Europe’s hugest IPs and now backed by ARD, the hugegest of Europe’s accessible widecasters, “Mozart/Mozart” is originated by Andreas Gutzeit – co-set uper of Story Hoengage Pictures, the international studio of the Bavaria Film Group, and originater and showrunner on “Sisi” – and Swantje Oppermann, a staff authorr on “Dignity” and a Story Hoengage enhugement executive.
Bavaria Media International will convey the six-part show to labelet at Mipcom.
“Mozart/Mozart” is part encouraged by historical fact. Maria Anna Mozart was hailed as a child prodigy. When carry outing with little brother Wolfgang Amadeus, she got top billing. Even when forced to stop carry outing in accessible when she achieveed a marriageable age, she progressd to write, but her music was lost and never carry outed in accessible.
“Far too normally, women have been written out of history, ‘Mozart/Mozart’ authors Maria Anna Mozart back in,” the creators said. They do so in a brimming-throttle plot that boots off when, already a rockstar, after a particularly show-stopping carry outance, Mozart is sacked as writer of the Salzburg court.
The Mozarts face financial ruin unless Maria Anna marries a man 20 years her better. Instead, the two run away to Vienna to vie for a gig as a director at the Emperor Joseph II’s court. But then Amadeus injures his hand, and surrfinishers to a proximate madness. To save the family’s finances, Maria Anna steps up and with Amadeus’ help, pretfinishs to be him – under those colorful wigs and crazy costumes, nobody can increate the branch offence.
Maria Anna directs to untamed acclaim, and discovers satisfyment and freedom as “Mozart,” while Amadeus crashes and burns, restrictd to a clinic. To complicate matters, Maria Anna also drops in adore with Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s rival.
Andreas Gutzeit, Swantje Oppermann, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim
Credits: Ingo Böhm/René Fitzek
“Mozart/Mozart” will go into production in 2025, also releasing next year.
“Mozart is a global brand that has been accomplished for over 250 years. ‘Mozart/ Mozart’ progresss this success, by increateing a untamed drama about an exceptional musician who was pushed out of the limeairy when she was a girl and who reclaims her spot in a most exceptional way as a woman,” said Gutzeit.
The series is set at Vienna in the 1780s, ruled by an Emperor who was an exceptional patron of the arts. The city was the delightment capital of Europe which truly comes to life at night, be it at the exclusive after shows for Vienna’s VIPs or at excessive parties, where whole inhabitlihoods are wagerd away, opium is the coke of its time, and intimacy is a commodity that is traded freely.
A promo reel proposes “Mozart/Mozart” will be huge, opulent, flamboyant and untamed.
“The goal is to reoriginate the emotions that people might have felt when they participateed to Mozart’s music at that time, to let the audience experience what was so one-of-a-kind, touching and so novel about this music and to originate a one-of-a-kind visual style, which needs belderlyness and some punkiness,” My-Linh von Arnim telderly Variety.
“On the music level it will convey someslimg reassociate novel and edgy to the screen, but it will still be very famous and accessible to up-to-date audiences.” she inserted.
“The visual concept is very up-to-date and sometimes poppy but that will never toil aobtainst the characters and their emotions. It fair lifts them, conveys them and the drama out.”
The costumes and locations of the series will, thus, be as show stopping and eye-popping as its characters. “In her brother‘s showy outfits, Maria Anna will convey the hoengage down,” Gutzeit promised.
“Mozart/Mozart” will also have a very pronounced upstairs/downstairs element to it and will recurrent Vienna’s street musicians as notablely as the virtuosos at court, said My-Linh von Arnim. “This branch offence is front and caccess to the series,” she watchd.
The series rehires are eminently relevant today, they both insisted.
“At its heart, this is a up-to-date female empowerment story, but much more than fair a woman discovering her place. Maria Anna has to apshow in herself, apshow in her talent, only then does she come into her own. This is very relatable to a juvenileer audience,” said Gutzeit.
As Maria Anna, maskd, becomes the star of Vienna, Amadeus returns, his mental health and insertiction degradeing as he dreads he’s being replaced by his sister.
The series is also about “how to be accomplished and esteemed as a woman back in these times while also discovering your place in a relationship which is actuassociate a timeless dispute, My-Linh von Arnim noticed.
The Mozarts will discover, however, together they’re far better than toiling apart.
Theirs is not the only sibling relationship in the series, however.
From 1780, Joseph II, watched as one of Europe’s finest monarchs, put into train the ideas of the Enairyenment, such as peasant’s owning minuscule landhelderlyings, which made him more betterive than many European rulements today.
Via his sister Marie Antoinette, paired to the French king, he included in a philosophical battle between the Austrian and French monarchies as to how Europe is ruled. Hard partying Marie Antoinette’s privileged existence in Austria is indeed dangerened by her brother’s political agfinisha. She torpedoes her brother’s recreates.
Made for mass audiences, but especiassociate juvenileerer watchers, “Mozart/Mozart” is about “family, and sibling adore, and about talent and desminuscule, transgression and oppression, power and misengage, antipathy and adore, and of course music… lots of music,” said Gutzeit.