Salieri

The story is a fictional account of the contentious relationship between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his rival, Antonio Salieri, the court composer of the Austrian emperor.

Rimsky-Korsakov turned to Mozart and Salieri.

For Pearce that sense of yearning insecurity was a familiar one, which he compares to the character of Salieri in “Amadeus,” being talented enough only to recognize true genius.

In “Oppenheimer” he plays this character, Lewis Strauss, who was a sort of a bureaucrat and government official who Christopher Nolan, the director of the film, was described as the Salieri to Robert Oppenheimer’s Mozart — this man who’s sort of overtaken by his own jealousies, his awareness of his own failings.

She has excelled in Baroque roles that veered from the mainstream, releasing recordings devoted to 19th century soprano Maria Malibran, castrati and composers Antonio Salieri and Agostino Steffani.