Organization

Conductor

Daniel Carter

Singer

Soprano

Flurina Stucki

Constance

Tenor

Michael Kim

Belmonte

Georgina Fürstenberg (Melville)

Blonde

Matthew Grills

Pedrillo

Bass

Patrick Guetti

Osmin

Spoken

Annabelle Mandeng

Selim

Stage director

Rodrigo García

Lighting designer

Carlos Marquerie

Costume designer

Hussein Chalayan

Set designer

Ramon Diago

Video designer

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Choral Solos

Irene Maas

Kristina Häger

Tadeusz Milewski

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

German

Die Entführung aus dem Serail -  (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Berlin

Germany

Die Entführung aus dem Serail Mozart

Public

The Abduction from the Seraglio

English

Approved

Ist sie ein orientalisches Märchenspiel oder ein Aufklärungs-Rührstück? Ein heiteres Singspiel oder eine Tragödie über die Unmöglichkeit, unser Lebensglück z...

Even the contemporaries of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were aware that THE ENTFUTURE FROM THE SERAIL had turned out to be far more important than the generic term “singspiel” would suggest. It was not only the client, Emperor Joseph II, who was irritated by the “enormous number of notes” at the Vienna premiere in 1784, but also Goethe felt compelled to question his own efforts to produce German-language Singspiels in view of the resounding success of Mozart’s piece. The ENTFUHRUNG was soon regarded as the first German national opera: as the first successful attempt to counteract the theatrical affective language of Italian opera with an equivalent work in German. This applies above all to the emotional depth of the characters: in the extreme situation of the stranger, which isolates the couple Belmonte and Konstanze from all external social influences, Mozart succeeds in expressing the fundamental question of interpersonal relationships in an unconditional musical way: Do I really love the other so much that I want to spend my life with him? And do I know myself well enough to make such a commitment with a clear conscience?

The ENTFUHRUNG has repeatedly inspired important theater makers to engage with it - all the more so since its structure, with the alternation of spoken dialogues and musical numbers, is more open to textual adaptations than through-composed operas. In June 2016, one of the most exciting, uncompromising directors on the European theater scene dared to make his music theater debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with ENTFAHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL: The Argentinian Rodrigo García has enjoyed great international success with plays such as “Gólgota Picnic”.

The Abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart, From (2021/2021), Directed by Rodrigo García,, Conductor Daniel Carter, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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