Due to this fortuitous twist of fate, Salieri was directed onto the path he had prayed for.He was awarded for his piety - the study of music as the respected court composer for the bland, tone-deaf Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones):(voice-over) My life changed forever.The whispered disembodied, mysterious voice suggested to the astonished farmer:If you build it,hewill come.After his release from incarceration after a little more han a year in prison, the budding rock star and young ex-con was introduced to the record business.The series of ballets are led by fairies, mushrooms in Chinese costumes, flowers and flower petals, underwater fan-tail fish, and thistles:Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies:multi-colored fireflies turn into tiny sparkling blue Dewdrop Fairies and dragonfly sprites who dart and flit among flowers, touching them with their wands and spreading sparkling dew droplets across the forest.Its collaborative screenplay was mainly the result of the efforts of Julius J.and Philip G.Epstein and Howard Koch.In all, six writers took the play""s script, and with the models ofAlgiers (1938)andOnly Angels Have Wings (1939)to follow, they transformed the romantic tale into this quintessential classic that samples almost every film genre.