The Abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart, From (2023/2023), Directed by David Bösch,, Conductor Adam Fischer, Opera Stabile, Hamburg, Germany

Konstanze, Blonde and Pedrillo are prisoners of Bassa Selim at the Ottoman court in Istanbul. Belmonte, Konstanze's groom, plans to secretly free her, but the night's action is discovered. Strangely enough, the punishment does not come, Bassa Selim lets the two couples go. The reason: Belmonte's father once deprived the Bassa of office, homeland and wife when the Christians took over the rule in the country. As a renegade, as an apostate Muslim, he now wants to prove to the Christian that he acts more humanely than his father. But the tremendous upheaval in his life and the love for Konstanze, which he gives up, hint at personal experiences behind the demonstrative gesture that have deeply hurt him.