Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail / Aga Winska, Richard Croft, Elisabet Hellstrom, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Tamas Szule, Arnold Ostman, Drottningholm Opera

I saw this on a public TV brodcast in my home country of Guatemala when I was 16 or 17 years old, and I just fell in love with it. After a lot of searching around I was able to find this beatifull preformance here, after16 years I get to experience it again.Thanks.

Although Kurt Moll has a star turn as the villain, Osmin, and although Inga Nielsen is fetching and vocally attractive, and although the production is mostly sensible, the performance on the whole does really survive the sludge and surprising rhythmic insecurities of Georg Solti's conducting.

Well recorded good performance of my favorite opera and musician.

great

As advertised and shipped promptly.

I wanted to give a really nice present to my wife, and took advantage of a casual remark she made about Entfuhring -- that it is such a nice opera, but seldom seen in the US. So I went to Amazon, and voila - a lovely present.She loved it, and so did I. All the voices are perfect, and all the acting, scenes, the whole performance -- like Mozart would have wanted.

This is an excellent production of Die Entfuhrung. In this performance it is Kurt Moll who steals the show as Osmin. With his stunning bass voice and his inspired and comic stage presence. A truly great performance by him. The other singers are all top notch. And Solti's conducting is very good.

I found this a very fine production of Mozart's masterwork "The Abduction from the seraglio". What can we say about the music but that it is Mozart at his best, his second master opera (of the seven he wrote in the last decade of his life) and therefore some of the most beautiful music ever composed. The production is lively and colorful, with exquisite sets and costumes: one exception: why is Pasha Selim dressed in western-style clothes when he first appears? Kurt Moll's performance is excellent as usual and I also liked Lillian Watson as a very funny Blondie. The opera is sung in the original German, with English subtitles.