Organization

Singer

Soprano

Irina Simmes

Constance

Tenor

Sungho Kim

Belmonte

Sooyeon Lee

Blonde

Fritz Steinbacher

Pedrillo

Bass

Denis Velev

Osmin

Stage director

Nikolaus Habjan

Conductor

Motonori Kobayashi

Sebastian Engel

Lighting designer

Florian Franzen

Costume designer

Denise Heschl

Set designer

Jakob Brossmann

Video designer

Puppetry

Manuela Linshalm

Theater Dortmund

Orchestra

Dortmunder Philharmoniker

German

Die Entführung aus dem Serail -  (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Dortmund

Germany

Opernhaus Dortmund

Die Entführung aus dem Serail Mozart

Public

The Abduction from the Seraglio

Approved

Die Entführung aus dem SerailSingspiel in drei Aufzügen von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • In einer gekürzten Fassung von Paulus Hochgatterer und Nikolaus Habjan ...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Oper Dortmund

Nikolaus Habjan is a theater magician - whether as a director, puppeteer or artistic whistler, he enchants his audience. It is therefore easy for him to make a virtue out of the necessity of the Corona-related conditions and to present a small opera jewel with his debut as Dortmund resident director: In a version specially designed for this purpose, he brings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's popular Singspiel Die Abduction from the Seragliowith his lovingly designed puppets on the stage of the opera house. However, anyone who thinks of classic marionette theater is wrong - Habjan's characters are extremely human: complex, full of character, highly artificial and each one is unique. Under his skilful guidance they seem to come to life and take their audience deep into the exotic world of Bassa Selim's seraglio.

Together with the singers of the opera ensemble, they tell the adventurous story of the beautiful Konstanze's attempt to free herself: the proud Spaniard, her maid Blonde and her friend Pedrillo fell victim to a pirate attack during a sea voyage. They were sold on a slave market and thus fell into the clutches of Bassa Selim. He seems to be running a strict regime in his palace, in which women's autonomy has been abolished. Will Konstanze's fiancé Belmonte be able to save the unfortunate?

English

The Abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart, From (2020/2021), Directed by Nikolaus Habjan,, Conductor Motonori Kobayashi, Sebastian Engel, Opernhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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