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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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- Date Saturday, 11/July/2026 19:00 ( 9 more dates )
- Venue Staatsoper Unter den Linden
- Address Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
- Price from €15.94
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Foto: Maximilian Semlinger / Artwork: Laura Buechner
© Foto: Maximilian Semlinger / Artwork: Laura Buechner
In the summer of 1782, in his twenties, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart celebrated his greatest opera success yet. With Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), he composed an enormously significant, pioneering work for the Deutsches Nationalsingspiel that had been founded by the Habsburg emperor Joseph II in Vienna, with inspired music and impressively rendered characters.
Mozart brought his wealth of experience with Italian opera to this work, always with an eye for creating a lively, exciting opera experience, combining captivating melodies and vocal brilliance with deeply felt emotions and striking profiles for the characters with their different life worlds. In addition, his distinctive sense for timbre and precisely developed musical processes know how to keep our attention at every moment. Just as the language is translated to music in an amazingly sensitive way, the music takes on an extraordinarily rhetorical power.
Mozart brought his wealth of experience with Italian opera to this work, always with an eye for creating a lively, exciting opera experience, combining captivating melodies and vocal brilliance with deeply felt emotions and striking profiles for the characters with their different life worlds. In addition, his distinctive sense for timbre and precisely developed musical processes know how to keep our attention at every moment. Just as the language is translated to music in an amazingly sensitive way, the music takes on an extraordinarily rhetorical power.
Artists/Collaborators: Johann Gottlieb Stephanie (Autor/in), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Komponist/in)
Runtime: Sat, 27/06/2026 to Wed, 17/02/2027
Act One
Somewhere on the Turkish Mediterranean coast, the Spaniard Belmonte arrives at the seraglio of Bassa Selim. He wants to free his fiancée Konstanze, who is being held captive at the countryside home of this Ottoman pasha. The overseer Osmin, who fears nothing more than the women being stolen by others, refuses him entrance.
Belmonte meets his servant Pedrillo who informs him of the situation. Together with Konstanze and her maid, the Englishwoman Blonde, Pedrillo has also been taken prisoner. Bassa Selim, a Spaniard who moved from Christian Europe to Turkey and converted to Islam, tried to seduce Konstanze, according to Pedrillo. In addition, he has given Blonde, who is betrothed to Pedrillo, to Osmin. Pedrillo himself has been forced to work as a gardener in the service of Bassa Selim. Belmonte reports that he has hidden an escape boat and plans with Pedrillo to free the prisoners from the seraglio. At the same time, he worries about Konstanze’s fidelity.
Selim, accompanied by his bodyguard, arrives with Konstanze on a pleasure boat. She rejects Selim once more; he gives her another day to think about it. Pedrillo introduces Belmonte to Selim as an architect, and he is also taken into service.
When Osmin still refuses to allow Belmonte and Pedrillo to enter the seraglio, they break in.
Act Two
Blonde rejects Osmin’s claims on her. She insists on her independence, while he inists that he owns her. In the conflict, Osmin comes up short.
Konstanze mourns her fate and the violent separation from her beloved Belmonte. Selim begins a new extortionary attempt at seduction. But his threats are in vain, since Konstanze fears neither violence nor death.
Pedrillo informs Blonde about Belmonte’s arrival and the planned escape. Both are full of joyful anticipation. Osmin is made drunk, in addition, he is given a sleeping potion.
Before the planned escape at midnight, Konstanze, Belomonte, Blonde, and Pedrillo meet secretly in the seraglio. They all look forward to the imminent end of their separation and coming freedom. But when the men question the women’s fidelity, they are indignant. When the men plead for forgiveness, the women pardon them and the four sing in praise of love.
Act Three
In the night, Belmonte and Pedrillo try to abscond with the women, but Osmin wakes up earlier than planned and thwarts their attempt. Selim confronts the captured prisoners. It turns out that Belmonte is the son of Selim’s archenemy, whose intrigues once ruined him and forced him to leave Spain. Konstanze and Belmonte are ready to die together. When Selim realizes that he can do nothing against their love, he relinquishes Konstanze and refrains from any punishment for their attempt at escape. Instead of carrying out revenge, he frees the prisoners. All praise Bassa Selim, only Osmin remains unforgiving.
New adaptation and presentation by Bülent Ceylan, Andrea Moses, and Michael Höppner (incorporating the original text by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie)
Insight before the premiere on 22nd June 2026Age recommendation: as of 12 years
Somewhere on the Turkish Mediterranean coast, the Spaniard Belmonte arrives at the seraglio of Bassa Selim. He wants to free his fiancée Konstanze, who is being held captive at the countryside home of this Ottoman pasha. The overseer Osmin, who fears nothing more than the women being stolen by others, refuses him entrance.
Belmonte meets his servant Pedrillo who informs him of the situation. Together with Konstanze and her maid, the Englishwoman Blonde, Pedrillo has also been taken prisoner. Bassa Selim, a Spaniard who moved from Christian Europe to Turkey and converted to Islam, tried to seduce Konstanze, according to Pedrillo. In addition, he has given Blonde, who is betrothed to Pedrillo, to Osmin. Pedrillo himself has been forced to work as a gardener in the service of Bassa Selim. Belmonte reports that he has hidden an escape boat and plans with Pedrillo to free the prisoners from the seraglio. At the same time, he worries about Konstanze’s fidelity.
Selim, accompanied by his bodyguard, arrives with Konstanze on a pleasure boat. She rejects Selim once more; he gives her another day to think about it. Pedrillo introduces Belmonte to Selim as an architect, and he is also taken into service.
When Osmin still refuses to allow Belmonte and Pedrillo to enter the seraglio, they break in.
Act Two
Blonde rejects Osmin’s claims on her. She insists on her independence, while he inists that he owns her. In the conflict, Osmin comes up short.
Konstanze mourns her fate and the violent separation from her beloved Belmonte. Selim begins a new extortionary attempt at seduction. But his threats are in vain, since Konstanze fears neither violence nor death.
Pedrillo informs Blonde about Belmonte’s arrival and the planned escape. Both are full of joyful anticipation. Osmin is made drunk, in addition, he is given a sleeping potion.
Before the planned escape at midnight, Konstanze, Belomonte, Blonde, and Pedrillo meet secretly in the seraglio. They all look forward to the imminent end of their separation and coming freedom. But when the men question the women’s fidelity, they are indignant. When the men plead for forgiveness, the women pardon them and the four sing in praise of love.
Act Three
In the night, Belmonte and Pedrillo try to abscond with the women, but Osmin wakes up earlier than planned and thwarts their attempt. Selim confronts the captured prisoners. It turns out that Belmonte is the son of Selim’s archenemy, whose intrigues once ruined him and forced him to leave Spain. Konstanze and Belmonte are ready to die together. When Selim realizes that he can do nothing against their love, he relinquishes Konstanze and refrains from any punishment for their attempt at escape. Instead of carrying out revenge, he frees the prisoners. All praise Bassa Selim, only Osmin remains unforgiving.
New adaptation and presentation by Bülent Ceylan, Andrea Moses, and Michael Höppner (incorporating the original text by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie)
Insight before the premiere on 22nd June 2026Age recommendation: as of 12 years
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