Name: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Start: 2015-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-08-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera House

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Soprano

Sally Matthews

Constance

Tenor

Edgaras Montvidas

Belmonte

Bass

Tobias Kehrer

Osmin

Mari Eriksmoen

Blonde

Brenden Gunnell

Pedrillo

Conductor

Robin Ticciati

Stage director

David McVicar

Set designer

Vicki Mortimer

Lighting designer

Paule Constable

Choreographer

Andrew George

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Spoken

Franck Saurel

Selim

Jonas Cradock

Klaas

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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The Glyndebourne Chorus

Glyndebourne

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

United Kingdom

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Ebert Room

Lewes

An outstanding production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail directed by David McVicar and presented at Glyndebourne in 2015!

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) is a Singspiel opera in three acts, inspired by the 18th century vogue for all things eastern. It is considered Mozart’s first fully mature opera and boasts some of his most spectacularly virtuosic vocal music, in particular for its brave heroine. The opera’s humane and surprising resolution defies all expectations and its explorations of cultural collisions between East and West retain startlingly contemporary resonance.

The opera tells the story of the young Spanish noblewoman Konstanze, who, along with her maid Blonde and her betrothed's valet Pedrillo, has been abducted by pirates and sold as slaves to Pasha Selim. The Turkish despot soon falls in love with Konstanze, and his guard Osmin falls in love with Blonde, who has been given to him as his personal slave. Belmonte arrives to attempt a rescue, joining forces with the equally lovesick Pedrillo to try to outwit the fearsome Osmin. Their plans however quickly fall through, and the two are captured, their fates at the mercy of the Great Pasha

Director David McVicar’s original-period vision for this Mozart gem allows its genius to speak for itself, offering a "mesmerising, sensitive … outstanding" portrayal of Enlightenment-era fascination with the East that is both "exquisitely acted and sung", featuring a Konstanze and a Belmonte sung with "finesse and bravura" and a "sensationally voiced" Osmin (The Guardian, 5 stars). Comic relief in Glyndebourne’s "brilliant production" is provided by "beautifully sung live-wire performances" of Pedrillo and Blonde, and Robin Ticciati leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment through a restored, authentic rendition of the critical score with "lovely fizz" and "poignant gravitas" (The Independent).

An outstanding production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail directed by David McVicar and presented at Glyndebourne in 2015!

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) is a Singspiel opera in three acts, inspired by the 18th century vogue for all things eastern. It is considered Mozart’s first fully mature opera and boasts some of his most spectacularly virtuosic vocal music, in particular for its brave heroine. The opera’s humane and surprising resolution defies all expectations and its explorations of cultural collisions between East and West retain startlingly contemporary resonance.

The opera tells the story of the young Spanish noblewoman Konstanze, who, along with her maid Blonde and her betrothed's valet Pedrillo, has been abducted by pirates and sold as slaves to Pasha Selim. The Turkish despot soon falls in love with Konstanze, and his guard Osmin falls in love with Blonde, who has been given to him as his personal slave. Belmonte arrives to attempt a rescue, joining forces with the equally lovesick Pedrillo to try to outwit the fearsome Osmin. Their plans however quickly fall through, and the two are captured, their fates at the mercy of the Great Pasha.

Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart), 2015
David McVicar creates a hedonistic culture-clash comedy set in an 18th-century Eastern fantasy.

The abduction from the Seraglio
Singspiel en trois acts de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie based on the play by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner
Premiere in Vienna, Burgtheater, July 16, 1782

Recording: July 19, 2015 - Glyndebourne Festival
Directed by: Francois Roussillon
Duration: 02:45

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