Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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.
Cast
Deon van der Walt
Belmonte
Inga Nielsen
Konstanze
Lillian Watson
Blondchen
Kurt Moll
Osmin
Lars Magnusson
Pedrillo
Oliver Tobias
Pasha Selim
Details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Languages
- German
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
- Age rating
- —
- Quality
- 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
- Production
- Royal Opera HouseBBC
Crew
Director
Humphrey Burton
Writers
Gottlieb Stephanie Jr., Christoph Friedrich Bretzner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Original Music Composer
Elijah Moshinsky
Production Design
