Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées
About the Event
Julien Chauvin conducts Le Concert de la Loge and the Chœur Fiat Cantus in a concert version of Mozart's famous singspiel opera, 'The Abduction from the Seraglio'.
'Die Entführung aus dem Serail' (The Abduction from the Seraglio) premiered in 1782 in Vienna. It is a work that demonstrates all the composer's spontaneity and youth, while still benefitting from his mastery and maturity. With a succession of comic situations in the kingdom of Pasha Selim, in an exotic imaginary land, the opera nevertheless also deals with deep and emotional questions concerning social relationship and what it is to be a stranger.
Sung in German, with French surtitles.
Cast / Production
Albina Shagimuratova | Konstanze
Levy Sekgapane | Belmonte
Florie Valiquette | Blonde
Sulkhan Jaiani | Osmin
Sahy Ratia | Pedrillo
Tchéky Karyo | narrator (adaptation of German texts into French by Ivan Alexandre)
Julien Chauvin | direction
Le Concert de la Loge
Fiat Cantus Choir | direction Thomas Tacquet
