Amadeus revival a sonorous success

For a play that makes audience members contemplate their own mediocrity, Amadeus is quite the crowd-pleaser.

Britain's National Theatre has a sold-out hit with a revival of Peter Shaffer's play about bad-boy genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his jealous rival Antonio Salieri, composer to the 18th-century Viennese court.

The production, which mixes actors, opera singers and a 20-piece onstage orchestra, is being broadcast in movie theaters around the world this month as part of the NT Live series.