 The opera premiered on the BBC television miniseries, "Not Mozart", directed by Newson and Gavin.Ute Lemper played the role of Mozart.Nyman appears as a court pianist instructed to play an "offending extract" of the "String Quartet in E flat major, K. 428" when Joseph Haydn (Julian Glover) accuses Mozart of musical plagiarism in court, and Mozart complains that Nyman has slowed down his chords.