Word: seraglio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & Bubbling. The festival was not merely a Dutch exposition. Jennie Tourel, perhaps the finest Carmen now singing, gave a performance in the role. The polished Vienna State Opera gave a bright and bubbling performance of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and was scheduled to perform Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Der Rosenkavalier before the festival ends next week...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, with Soprano Eleanor Steber, Tenor Charles Kullmann...
Chronically poverty-stricken Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wanted to be married, decided to compose a light little Singspiel to pay the bills, titled it Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). To make it popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entf...
...Mozart fans who expected another Don Giovanni or Marriage of Figaro, it was a disappointment. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a trifle in which half of the dialogue is spoken, not sung. Its story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
Thirty minutes by subway and bus can easily consummate Miss Bergwall's desires. Park Street, Kenmore station, and the bus to Pilgrim road mark the way to the Simmons seraglio...