A production of AGS · touring since 2014
I Am Mozart
Music and theatre for young audiences · live piano
The experience
A man in a red coat walks onto a stage, sits down at a grand piano, and starts asking questions.
For the length of the show, several hundred children stop being an audience. They answer out loud. The house lights come up so that he can see them do it. Some of them are hearing a piano properly for the first time in their lives.
The piano is live. The performer is alone on stage. Nothing is projected, nothing is recorded, and no child is asked to sit still and admire anything.
Operating data
Running time
45–90 min, depending on the version performed
Recommended age
6–10 years, adaptable from age 4
Maximum capacity
1,200 children, subject to the venue's PA coverage
Languages
French · English · Spanish
On stage
1 performer, 1 company technician
Get-in · get-out
2–3 h each, plus a one-hour check
Three configurations
The show adapts to your building, not the other way round.
It runs at three levels of technical provision without altering its artistic content. Our technical management confirms which one applies once we have your venue's specification.
Simplified
School, sports hall, multipurpose room
- Up to 300
- Stage 6 × 5 m
- House system · 4 inputs
- 1 multi-skilled technician
- Get-in 1 h 30
Standard
Municipal theatre, arts centre
- 300–800
- Stage 8 × 6 m
- 8-input console · 3 monitors
- 1 sound op · 1 lighting op
- Get-in 2–3 h
Premium
Auditorium, fully equipped theatre
- 800–1,200
- Stage 10 × 8 m or larger
- Digital console · 3 sends
- Sound, lighting, stagehand
- Get-in 3 h
Educational value
What it sets out to do
Give a child a first encounter with live classical music that belongs to them, and let a historical figure appear as a person rather than a monument.
Competencies
Listening and concentration · musical vocabulary · historical context · speaking in public · working out an answer in front of others.
Across subjects
Music, history, language and civics meet in the same hour, which is what makes it usable inside an arts-education pathway.
Any school system
Built around an age range, not a national curriculum. It has been performed for school audiences in Europe and Latin America without adaptation to any single system.
Material for the teaching team, to use before and after the performance, is in preparation and travels with the production.
Accessibility
The performance exists in a version with sign language interpretation.
The interpreter works on stage, in the light, not at the side of the room. Deaf and hearing children watch the same show, in the same place, at the same time.
Why it ends the way it does
A programme does not end with applause. It ends when a child asks a teacher a question nobody had planned for.
Which is why the house lights come up during the show, and why the performer answers children out loud instead of performing over them.
For your technical team
Everything a venue needs, in twelve pages.
Stage plan, lighting plot, patch, running order, set requirements and access. Written for your technical management, in your language.
Download the technical dossier · PDF, 12 pages
Tell us when your season is being built. We will tell you what is possible.