Saving Mozart review: ‘talents squandered on this vapid pop-rock work’

Mostly I felt sorry for the cast, which includes two fine-voiced former queens from Six. Aimie Atkinson is Mozart’s older sibling, musical pathfinder and protector Nannerl, saddled here with a couple of grumpy numbers about a talented woman’s meagre lot in 18th century European life. Erin Caldwell is his beloved wife, muse and buttress Constanze, using what I presume is her own Scottish accent to berate and inspire the brilliant but feckless composer. “Wolfie, they’re lovin’ it!” she reassures him at the premiere of The Magic Flute. To which he responds with a little, streptococcal cough presaging his imminent demise aged 35.