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Mozart, W.A. - DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO) / Opera in Three Acts / Libretto by Bretzner and Stephanie / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Vienna State Opera Chorus / Zubin Mehta, conductor / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 134 Minutes
UPC: 089948452195
- EAN: 0089948452195
- Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Number of Discs: 1
- Media: DVD
- Artist: Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (German: [diː ʔɛntˈfyːʁʊŋ ʔaʊ̯s deːm zeˈʁaɪ̯]) (K. 384; The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is a singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Constanze from the seraglio of Pasha Selim. The work premiered on 16 July 1782 at the Vienna Burgtheater, with the composer conducting.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO
Opera in Three Acts
Libretto by Bretzner and Stephanie
Konstanze Ingeborg Hallstein
Blonde Reri Grist Belmont Luigi Alva
Pedrillo Gerhard Unger
Osmin Fernando Corena Pasha Selim Michael Heltau
Ingeborg Hallstein and Luigi Alva
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Salzburg Festival 1967
Stage Director: Giorgio Strehler Production Design: Luciano Damiani
An ORF Production in Cooperation
with the Salzburg Festival © 1967
Creative content © 2010 Video Artists International, Inc.
Produced for DVD by Allan Altman
Design: Raymond Edwards
Executive producer for DVD: Edward Cardona
All photos courtesy of Archive of the Salzburg Festival
Special thanks to Marion Oberdorfer and
Eveline Kogler of ORF, and to Prof. Gottfried Kraus
