MEDIATHEK

(Oper in 3 Akte + Interviews)

"Johan Simons’ feisty production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail is an intelligently innovative account of Mozart's 1782 comic tale of abduction, love, loyalty and forgiveness."

"Other productions have suggested a mutual attraction between the heroine and her oriental captor. Simons carries this to extremes. His staging is dominated by Konstanze's inner struggle between her loyalty to her betrothed and her disturbing feelings for the man who, we sense, has awakened her sexually. While there are irritating details in Simon's modern-dress production, I found it psychologically credible, often compelling. Laura Aikin vividly portrays Konstanze's fluctuating emotions in dialogue and aria. ...she makes "Marten aller Arten" a graphic embodiment of her conflicting feelings of desire and guilt, charging the stratospheric coloratura with a sense of neurotic desperation. Constantinos Carydis conducts the excellent Netherlands CO with zest and a fair sense of period style. " (Gramophone)


// Credits //

Stage Director: Johan Simons

Laura Aikin (Konstanze)
Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte)
Steven van Watermeulen (Bassa Selim)
Kurt Rydl (Osmin)
Mojca Erdmann (Blonde)
Michael Smallwood (Pedrillo)

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Constantinos Carydis


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