Salieri

[ suhl-yair-ee, sal-; Italian sah-lye-ree ]

noun

1. An·to·nio [an-, toh, -nee-oh, ahn-, taw, -nyaw], 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor.

Salieri

/ ˌsalˈjeri /

noun

1. SalieriAntonio17501825MItalianMUSIC: composerMUSIC: conductor Antonio (anˈtonjo). 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor, who worked in Vienna (from 1766). The suggestion that he poisoned Mozart has no foundation

Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Seattle Times

“They had a Mozart–Salieri relationship, characterized by slights and pride,” Nolan told Kenneth Turan, longtime Times movie critic.

From Los Angeles Times

He won an Oscar for his role as Antonio Salieri in the 1984 feature “Amadeus” and starred on the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.”

From Seattle Times

Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of “I Am My Own Wife,” described his incarnation of Levant as a Jazz Age Salieri, in thrall to George Gershwin and crushed by a self-imposed perception that he never measured up to his idol.

From New York Times