Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1987)
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.
Director: Humphrey Burton
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Deon van der Walt as Belmonte |
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Inga Nielsen as Konstanze |
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Lillian Watson as Blondchen |
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Kurt Moll as Osmin |
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Lars Magnusson as Pedrillo |
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Oliver Tobias as Pasha Selim |
| Sound | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Elijah Moshinsky | Production Design |
| Directing | Humphrey Burton | Director |
| Writing | Christoph Friedrich Bretzner | Original Story |
| Writing | Gottlieb Stephanie Jr. | Writer |
| Sound | Georg Solti | Music Director |
