Mozart: Rise of a Genius

We are only interested in the man Mozart life for one reason, how it impacted his music. This show failed to demonstrate that connection, and whilst proposing to read his letters barely covered them as the show progressed.

The show was then populated by a weird collection of characters that supplied anecdotal comments on their liking of his music. The experts failed to drill down the nature of Mozart's musical uniqueness, or why in basic terms he sits between Haydn and Beethoven. There was little understanding of his instruments, how he composed, who helped him, other major works at the same time, and the role of fashion and taste.

It really was a terrible mess and at best 3 outta 10.