De ontvoering uit het serail by Mozart, zo. 28 okt 2018, Van (2018/2018), Geregisseerd door David Hermann,, Dirigent Riccardo Minasi, Opernhaus, Zürich, Zwitserland

The abduction from the Seraglio In Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail there is a reunion with one of the most interesting musicians in the baroque and classical repertoire at the moment, Riccardo Minasi. In Zurich he conducted Mozart's Don Giovanni , now he returns to the podium of our Orchestra La Scintilla. The cast of this revival is also handpicked: as Konstanze, the internationally sought-after soprano Brenda Rae makes her debut at the Zurich Opera House, Belmonte sings the tenor Daniel Behle, who is celebrated for his interpretations of Mozart. Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio is considered by many to be a fresh, optimistic but harmless work by a brilliant composer on the verge of mastery . And the plot about Konstanze, who was kidnapped by pirates and is now stuck in the seraglio of Pasha Selim, seems somewhat naive at first glance, seems to confirm this impression. But Mozart's music makes deeply human characters out of the types of characters that seem to be rooted in the Turkish opera popular in the 18th century. Mozart was more concerned with the inner conflicts of the characters than with the external plot, which he explores in depth psychology with his music. The director David Hermann also understands Belmonte's journey, who wants to free Konstanze from the seraglio, not as a journey into the – external – stranger, but rather as a nightmarish journey of Belmonte to his own fears and spiritual abysses. He sets the action in a very modern environment.