Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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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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Cast
6 people
Deon van der Walt
Belmonte
Also in
La Belle Hélène
Iphigénie en Tauride
Inga Nielsen
Konstanze
Also in
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Wonder Woman
Lillian Watson
Blondchen
Also in
Carmen
The Turn of the Screw
Kurt Moll
Osmin
Also in
Der Rosenkavalier
Die Walküre
Lars Magnusson
Pedrillo
Oliver Tobias
Pasha Selim
Known for
Jesus of Nazareth
Arabian Adventure
Humphrey Burton Director · Johann Gottlieb Stephanie Jr. Writer Christoph Friedrich Bretzner Story
United States release May 1, 1990 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production BBC
Production
Royal Opera House
Production
BBC
Production
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
United Kingdom · November 27, 1987
Premiere · Live performance
United States · May 1, 1990
Theatrical
United Kingdom
November 27, 1987 · Theatrical · TV relay
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