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DESCRIPTION:Jul 31 - Aug 28\, 2026\nDon’t look back! Like Orpheus\, finic
 ky opera fans with cherished memories have a hard time heeding that advice
 . In 2015\, Glyndebourne premiered Mozart’s Oriental fantasy Die Entfüh
 rung aus dem Serail in a David McVicar production that looked glacially fo
 rmal yet blazed with banked fires. Kidnapped by pirates and trafficked to 
 the all-powerful Pasha Selim\, the glamorous Konstanze spurns the amenitie
 s of the seraglio he offers as her personal Shangri-La\, endlessly moping 
 in dialogue and in song for her betrothed Belmonte. The title of the opera
  lets us know which way she’ll jump when Belmonte materializes\, just in
  the nick of time. Yet in McVicar’s production\, the electricity between
  the captive and her smitten jailer turned the B-movie escape adventure in
 to a profound case study of Stockholm Syndrome and Eros Denied. Given that
  this is an opera and that Pasha Selim has not one note to sing\, such a t
 ransformation might seem impossible. Yet without a single change in the st
 ory line\, the animal magnetism of the French actor Franck Saurel’s Pash
 a bent the arc of the drama his way\; never had the “rescued” Konstanz
 e’s departure with his blessing seemed so categorically tragic. This sum
 mer’s revival introduces the exciting Liv Redpath as Konstanze\, whose w
 rong-headed loyalty to Belmonte expresses itself both in laments and firew
 orks. The likeable Anthony León is her Belmonte. The principals in a para
 llel love triangle playing out in the servants’ quarters are Julie Roset
  as Konstanze’s lady’s maid\, Thomas Cilluffo as Belmonte’s valet Pe
 drillo\, and Michael Mofidian as the blustering overseer of the harem who\
 , unlike his master\, sings up a storm\, cutting no ice with the minx he l
 oves whatsoever. Evan Rogister conducts the classy Orchestra of the Age of
  Enlightenment. And Pasha? It’s Saurel again\, owning the seraglio like 
 Yul Brynner on the throne of Siam.
LOCATION:Glyndebourne\, New Rd\, Lewes BN8 5UU\, UK
SUMMARY:Die Entführung aus dem Serail\, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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