THE ABDUCTION
FROM THE SERAGLIO
Yekta Kara director
Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra
İstanbul Festival Chorus
Peter Talling conductor
Markus Baisch chorus master
24 June Saturday, 21:30, Topkapı Palace
Programme
Konstanze Eva Mei soprano (June 22)
Konstanze Maria Bengtsson soprano (June 24)
Belmonte Daniel Kirsch tenor
Blondchen Ina Schlingensiepen soprano
Pedrillo Cenk Bıyık tenor
Osmin Kurt Rydl bas
Selim Pasha Achim Thorwald
Mozart
Abduction from the Seraglio
Lasts 2’’ 50’ inc. interval.
Recognized as undeniably the most important piece Mozart has composed on Turkish music, the opera of ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ will meet the audience at the Topkapı Palace. The extraordinary story of Belmonte coming to İstanbul in search of his lover Constanze will come alive with the modern interpretation of Yekta Kara in İstanbul, the meeting point for the East and the West.


