In Casablanca we get to see a mellowdramic story full of emotions however, when we watch the amadeus we find (Jabling 2004) an Emperor was certainly not bored by The Marriage of Figaro, which was actually quite a smash hit, and he himself described Don Giovanni as divine...possibly even more heavenly than Figaro. What drove Figaro off the boards was not the Emperor's indifference or the cabals of Mozart's enemies, though there were such cabals, but the immense popularity of Martini's comic opera Una Cosa Rara, which, incidentally helped popularize the waltz in 1787. The view in Amadeus about the controversial choreography" which almost got Marriage of Figaro ostracised from the stage is based on a historical occurrence, but the movie uses the wrong melodies: Mozart supplied actual promenade melodies (the Fandango acclimatized from Gluck's ballet Don Juan) for the marriage promenade; it was NOT danced to the music to the Third proceed March. The film's conductor Sir Neville Mariner should have known better! And why is the breath-taking damnation scene from Don Giovanni so dully staged and why is the actor playing Don Juan so unattractive when the original actor was a 27-year old hunk? Leopold Mozart's shock and Wolfgang's embarrassment at seeing Constanza stand on a table to display her legs during the Forfeits game (another view founded on an actual incident) is more understandable when one realizes that in truth she would not have been wearing drawers, as she is in the film. In reality, Leopold's apparently mysterious disapproval of his son's marriage to sweet Constanza Weber was likely disapproval of her scheming family, whom he considered as users.
Here afresh, reality is outsider than fiction. Wolfgang had been really been engaged to Constanza's attractive older sister Aloysia, an aspiring juvenile operatic soprano who jilted him soon after receiving her first theatrical contract. Leopold was afraid that Constanza's mother and guardian were trying to re-trap his child into marriage or were considering a break of pledge match - a not unjust suspicion. The guardian really forced Wolfgang into marking an agreement to pay Constanza 300 ducats a year if he didn't marry her (which Constanza, to her borrowing, ripped up). The movie absolutely did a good job of depicting the raucous melodies theater of Emanuel Schikaneder, librettist, producer, and star of Mozart's ...