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Salieri has spent many years working to ruin Mozart’s reputation. Here, toward the end of the play, Mozart has just performed his opera The Magic Flute, which offended his friend Van Swieten, who was giving him money to survive. He has no more money, has a terrible reputation, and his wife has gone away with their child. Salieri goes to visit Mozart, curious about the rumor that Mozart has gone mad. He finds Mozart very ill and impoverished, and eventually admits to ‘poisoning’ Mozart’s
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Start: Salieri: Now for the first time I saw the place to which I had consigned him. A filthy chamber in total disorder. Empty bottles everywhere--discarded linen--and across the floor an inky pavement of fresh manuscripts, stirring in icy gusts from ill-fitting windows.
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End: Salieri: And so finally I left. Refused. Unheard! Of course! (To God) Grazie--per sempre!! And never--never after--could I confess to anyone. Until I summoned You--tonight. My last.
Shaffer, Peter. Amadeus, Samuel French, 1980, pp. 83-88.
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