Mozart – Die Entfuhring aus dem Serail / Nielsen, Watson, van der Walt, Magnusson, Moll, Tobias, Solti, Covent Garden Opera
Mozart’s comic masterpiece is set in a Turkish palace and tells the story of the ‘escape from the harem’. In Elijah Moshinsky’s production, the Turkish atmosphere is created by Timothy O’Brien’s set of garden and crumbling palace, strikingly complemented by Sir Sidney Nolan’s colourful front and backcloths. The story tells of Belmonte, a Spanish nobleman (played by Deon...
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