Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Opera
Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
© Foto: Maximilian Semlinger / Artwork: Laura Buechner
Description
In the summer of 1782, in his twenties, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart celebrated his greatest opera success yet. With Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), he composed an enormously significant, pioneering work for the Deutsches Nationalsingspiel that had been founded by the Habsburg emperor Joseph II in Vienna, with inspired music and impressively rendered characters.
Mozart brought his wealth of experience with Italian opera to this work, always with an eye for creating a lively, exciting opera experience, combining captivating melodies and vocal brilliance with deeply felt emotions and striking profiles for the characters with their different life worlds. In addition, his distinctive sense for timbre and precisely developed musical processes know how to keep our attention at every moment. Just as the language is translated to music in an amazingly sensitive way, the music takes on an extraordinarily rhetorical power.
New version and moderations by Bülent Ceylan, Andrea Moses and Michael Höppner (using the original text by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie)
Introductory talk 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the Apollosaal
Mozart brought his wealth of experience with Italian opera to this work, always with an eye for creating a lively, exciting opera experience, combining captivating melodies and vocal brilliance with deeply felt emotions and striking profiles for the characters with their different life worlds. In addition, his distinctive sense for timbre and precisely developed musical processes know how to keep our attention at every moment. Just as the language is translated to music in an amazingly sensitive way, the music takes on an extraordinarily rhetorical power.
New version and moderations by Bülent Ceylan, Andrea Moses and Michael Höppner (using the original text by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie)
Introductory talk 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the Apollosaal
The performance will be recorded as an audio recording.
Cast
Thomas Guggeis
Musical Director
Andrea Moses
Director
Staatskapelle Berlin
Staatsopernchor
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Bülent Ceylan
Bassa Selim
Adela Zaharia
Konstanze
Serafina Starke
Blonde
Siyabonga Maqungo
Belmonte
Michael Laurenz
Pedrillo
David Steffens
Osmin
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Caroline Staunton / Leander Teßmer
Assistant director
Raimund Bauer
Set Design
Anja Rabes
Costumes
Irene Selka
Light
Andrea Gabriel
Videodesign
Gerhard Polifka
Chorus Master
Michael Höppner / Detlef Giese
Dramaturgy
Dates
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin
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