Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
LIVE RECORDING FROM DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN 1976

Selim HANS PETER HALLWACHS
Konstanze ZDZISAWA DONAT
Blondchen BARBARA VOGEL
Belmonte HORST LAUBENTHAL
Pedrillo NORBERT ORTH
Osmin MARTTI TALVELA

DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN
Conductor GARY BERTINI
Stage Director GÜNTHER RENNERT

Mozart composed his Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 1781, encouraged by no one less than the Austrian emperor Joseph II in order to emphasise the importance of this national form of music theatre as opposed to the Italian opera. It was a great success during Mozarts lifetime and has until today lost none of its magic. In 1976 the Deutsche Oper Berlin presented a new stage direction, after Gustav Rudolf Sellners had been played there for many years, by the renowned Günther Rennert. Besides widely known soloists like Horst Laubenthal and Zdzisawa Donat, or the actor Hans Peter Hallwachs as Selim, the star of the evening was undoubtedly the Finnish multi-talented bass Martti Talvela. The premiere in December 1976 was recorded live and broadcast on ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen).

Sound Format: PCM Mono
Picture Format: 4:3
DVD Format: DVD 9 / NTSC
Subtitles: DE (Original Language), GB, FR
Running Time: 130 mins
FSK: 0
Region Code: 0

Arthaus Musik GmbH (Naxos Deutschland GmbH)