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The Abduction from the Seraglio at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Dates: (11/24/2016 - 12/6/2016 )

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Deutsche Oper Berlin


Bismarckstr. 35
Berlin,Berlin 10627

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Tickets: €29.00 - €95.00

Running Time: 3 hrs / 1 interval

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The realisation that THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO was a more significant work than the “musical comedy” label suggested was not long in coming. Not only did the commissioner of the piece, Emperor Joseph II, comment with some puzzlement after the 1784 premiere in Vienna that there were “too many notes”; three years later Goethe, too, responded to the success of Mozart’s piece by questioning his own dabblings in German-language musical comedies. ABDUCTION soon came to be seen as the primordial German opera, the first successful attempt to create a qualitatively comparable German alternative to the affective language of Italian opera. This is especially true of the emotional depth of the characters. Setting the story in an alien, exotic country, which severs Belmonte and Konstanze from all external social influences, Mozart is able to express musically the fundamental question of interpersonal relations: am I so in love that I want to spend the rest of my life with this other person? And do I know myself well enough to commit to the relationship with a clean conscience?

ABDUCTION has inspired a string of accomplished directors to stage the work, especially as its interplay of spoken dialogue and music makes it more tolerant of textual adaptations than through-composed operas are. One of Europe’s most exciting and uncompromising theatre directors is now coming to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he has chosen THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO as the piece with which to make his debut in the genre of musical theatre. Argentinian Rodrigo Garcia has been feted internationally for plays such as “Gólgota Picnic”. In Berlin he has directed at the Schaubühne, where he collaborated with Lars Eidinger.
Ages: aged 16 and over

Cast and Creative team for The Abduction from the Seraglio at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Conductor
Arthur Fagen
Director, Set designer
Rodrigo García
Set designer, Video
Ramon Diago
Costume design
Hussein Chalayan
Light design
Carlos Marquerie
Choir Conductor
Raymond Hughes
Bassa Selim
N. N.
Konstanze
Olga Peretyatko
Blonde
Siobhan Stagg
Belmonte
Matthew Newlin
Pedrillo
James Kryshak
Osmin
Tobias Kehrer
Chorus
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
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