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.

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

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.”