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Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1987)

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1987)

Music
Release Date: 1987, November 27
Directors: Humphrey Burton
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Royal Opera House, BBC, BBC
Cast: Oliver Tobias, Inga Nielsen, Kurt Moll, Deon van der Walt, Lillian Watson, Lars Magnusson

Overview:

Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.

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