Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Cast

Ute Lemper

as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

David Thomas

as Leopold

Julian Glover

as Joseph Haydn

Tony Rohr

as Ludwig van Beethoven

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