Originally presented at the T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center – Montpelier, VT

Throughout his life Mozart was inspired, fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, disappointed and betrayed by women, but he always loved and respected them.

His mother, his sister, his wife and his lovers all figure prominently in his all-too-brief life, and his observation and his understanding reappear, spectacularly, in the female characters he created in his operas. focusing on the very different women who played significant parts in shaping Mozart’s character and imagination, from his wife Constanze and his Amazingly talented sister, the composer-piano virtuoso pianist, sister Nannerl to the temperamental divas who first created the female roles in the main operas.

Illustrated with some of Mozart’s delightful four hand piano works as well as selections from several of his most well known and the lesser, underappreciated operatic gems that flowed from his fertile imagination.