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	Encyclopedia: The Abduction from the Seraglio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Abduction from the Seraglio (K. 384; in German Die Entführung aus dem Serail) is a comic opera in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of the Pasha Selim.
		The opera was first produced at the command of the Austrian emperor Joseph II on July 16, 1782 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Abduction-from-the-Seraglio (989 words)

	classical music - andante - fidelio in the seraglio
		The opera's plot bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Beethoven's Fidelio, in that the herione ventures into the heart of the enemy camp disguised as a young man in order to find and rescue her beloved, who is being held prisoner.
		The scenario is, like that of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio from several decades later, an example of 18th-century Europe's craze for turquerie orientalism, Ottoman-style.
		The hero, Prince Ridolfo, has been captured and enslaved by the Sultan of Egypt, where the titular faithful princess, Cunegonda, arrives in search of him; in her male disguise, she is welcomed as a guest at court.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=19323 (1220 words)

	Seraglio by Janet Wallach - read excerpt
		Several of us had been ordered to go to the seraglio pier: a corsairs' ship belonging to the bey of Algiers had docked and word had been sent they had a gift on board for Sultan Abdul Hamid.
		We learned that three weeks before, the Algerian's pirates had captured a boat and presented the bey with the booty: along with gold, silver, and cargo, there were a dozen Christian men and a bud about to blossom.
		Although silence reigns supreme in the seraglio, I could see by the gleam in his fl eyes and the twisted smile that appeared on his mouth that he was pleased by the bey's gift.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/seraglio.htm (2641 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Persian Letters at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the seraglio, there may be no way to separate truth from fiction, and the results of a decision based on uncertain facts can have disastrous results.
		The danger of placing one's trust in someone untrustworthy by position is ever-present within the seraglio.
		The First Black Eunuch is dead, the seraglio is in chaos, and Usbek is receiving conflicting advice.
	www.epinions.com /content_56784686724 (1462 words)

	Signing in the Seraglio: mutes, dwarfs and jestures at the Ottoman Court 1500 ± 1700
		Slight evidence does exist that deaf women were active in the closely guarded women's quarters in a secluded part of the seraglio, but whether they did anything different from the male mutes is not now known.
		The close of the sixteenth century brought to the Ottoman court an English organ-builder, Thomas Dallam, a witness with a different viewpoint from that of the courtiers and diplomats.
		This Language is so much in fashion in the Seraglio, that they who would please there, and are oblig'd to be in the Prince's Presence, learn it very carefully: for it would be a want of the deep Respect they owe him, to whisper one another in the Ear before him.
	www.independentliving.org /docs5/mmiles2.html (9175 words)

	Seraglio - BPAL Madness! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seraglio - Sweet almond and Mysor sandalwood enveloped by a heady veil of Bulgarian Rose, neroli, nutmeg, clove and orange peel.
		Seraglio is another on of my first orders :luv2: and has that ancient spicy middle eastern aroma that Im obsessed with! This is a good one to wear for a date or anything else that one would consider a special occasion.
		Sniffing the bottle all I smelled was that almond but the drydown turns into a tantilizing Rosey smell with the background of clove, nutmeg and sandalwood showering down.
	www.bpal.org /index.php?showtopic=69&hl=seraglio (2400 words)

	Reviews - Yehudi: Jewish Music From The Seraglio/L'Orient Imaginaire
		Released in 1996 on the Elektra/Asylum and Teldec labels, "Yehudi - Jewish Music From The Seraglio" is an album of Jewish Early Music in the Sephardic tradition, specifically, Ottoman art music (Turkish classical music) of the 18th to early 20th centuries by Sephardi Jewish composers at the Ottoman court.
		The selection presented here is excellent in its range, covering as it does a period of some two centuries, as well as in the quality of the compositions, which are among the finest examples of Ottoman art music.
		The liner notes are superb and provide a brief history of the Sephardic Jews in Turkey as well as introductions to the instruments and Ottoman art music, and of course an overview of the composers represented.
	www.rainlore.demon.co.uk /Reviews/LOrientImaginaire-Yehudi.html (396 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: The Abduction From The Seraglio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After she leaves to return to the seraglio (the part of an Asian palace where the women of the house live), Pedrillo introduces Belmonte to the Pasha as a visiting architect.
		The young women forgive them for their doubts, and the rescue is scheduled for that night.
		The Abduction from the Seraglio is an example of the German Singspiel, a form in which all the dialogue is spoken rather than sung.
	www.operaworld.com /special/serag1.shtml (805 words)

	Chapter Septiform <i>to</i> Seraph of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court.
		ï, a palace, a king's court, a seraglio, an inn.
		A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1210/24031/6.html (334 words)

	Powell's Books - Seraglio by Janet Wallach
		Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, "Seraglio" portrays the sensual, savvy persona that made Dubucq, an intimate of several powerful sultans — as a wife to one, a lover and confidante to another, and an adoptive mother to a third.
		As she discovers the erotic secrets that win the favor of kings, Nakshidil (as Dubucq is renamed) also becomes privy to bloodthirsty conspiracies, treading a dangerous yet often thrilling line between sumptuous pleasures and mere survival; eventually, she is even awarded control of the harem and a vital role in the affairs of the Empire.
		Based on the true story of Empress Josephine's cousin, "Seraglio" is a novel of a girl, kidnapped at age 13, who rose through the ranks of the Turkish Sultan's harem to become the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=27576&cgi=product&isbn=0385490461 (323 words)

	JS Online: Review: 'The Abduction from the Seraglio' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The jarring abutments in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" - of spoken dialogue and glorious song, low comedy and tense melodrama, careful plotting and arbitrary twist - bear remarkable resemblance to Hollywood thriller/comdies of the 1940s.
		Director Jon Kretzu ran with that in the Skylight Opera Theatre's "Seraglio," which opened Friday.
		The show, moved from 1782 to 1944, is now about an American girl and her British sidekick held by a Morrocan racketeer/pasha.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/sep04/261603.asp (475 words)

	CONCERT REVIEW: A Turkish Delight -- Boston Lyric Opera Scores High With Mozart’s ‘Seraglio’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mozart was only 25 years old when he wrote the opera, and while it does not rank among his best works, the BLO delivers it in such a fine package that it’s hard to resist its charm.
		Konstanza and Blonde, kidnapped by pirates and sold to the Pasha as wife and maid respectively, are yearning for freedom and love.
		Instead of the Seraglio’s pomp and orientalism, the stage design by Allen Moyer evokes the atmosphere of a luxurious turn-of-the century train ride, complete with mahogany interior and plush seats.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V122/N57/BSO_Seraglio.57a.html (589 words)

	Amazon.com: Seraglio (Thorndike Press Large Print Women's Fiction Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aimee du Buc de Rivery was only 13 when her ship was captured by pirates and she was taken to the seraglio.
		Renamed Nakshidil, she is befriended by the eunuch Tulip, but she fights against her enslavement and the rules of the seraglio.
		Janet Wallach's Seraglio is an enjoyable, engaging read--the story of a young woman, 13 year old Aimee, who is kidnapped and becomes a slave in the Turkish sultan's seraglio.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786254246?v=glance (2092 words)

	Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
		Above, Topkapi Palace on Seraglio Point where the Golden Horn meets the Bosphorus.
		Below,dress rehearsal in front of Topkapi's Gate of Felicity for Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, performed each summer in the International Istanbul Music Festival.
		ome of the Ottoman sultans for nearly 400 years, Topkapi ("Palace of the Cannon Gate") was the seraglio, the heart of the vast Ottoman Empire, ruled by the monarch who lived in Topkapi's hundreds of rooms with hundreds of concubines, children, and white and fl servants.
	www.turkeytravelplanner.com /WhereToGo/Istanbul/Sights/Sultanahmet/TopkapiSaray.html (200 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Illuminated Manuscripts
		The lofty traditions of Byzantine miniature painting were upheld until the fall of Constantinople in 1204.
		The specimen at the Seraglio was composed for Prince Isaac, some of Alexius I Comnenus.
		A manuscript whose picture exercised great influence on Byzantine art is that of the "Homilies on the Virgin", by James, a monk of Coxynobaphos (Vatical 1162; Paris, 1208).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09620a.htm (5223 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Seraglio: a Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The intrigue and drama of the palace are balanced by capable, authoritative prose and admirable restraint, resulting in a novel at once serious and enchanting.
		The details about the life of the seraglio are fascinating and Wallach includes every detail you would want to know - from her descriptions of the vast wealth of the palace to the way in which the women of the seraglio were taught to make love to the sultan and how to bring him pleasure.
		Aimee is renamed Nakshidil, forced to become a muslim and to have sex with an aged and decrepit sultan.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385490461 (1449 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - The Abduction from the Seraglio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A noble maiden (soprano) sold into the Pasha's harem, a romantic tenor to the rescue, a comic villain (basso) to be foiled, and the requisite sub-plot of romance between the servants makes Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio a merry romp indeed, with plenty of gorgeous music to satisfy the most ardent of opera goers.
		The roles of young Belmonte and Constanza are ably sung by Gregory Turay and Jennifer Welch-Babibdge, while Celena Shafer and Jeffrey PicÛn portray the servants.
		Such passages are as integral to the work as anything in the libretto; they have an emotional content-often even a plot content-and a director must use them to further the development of plot or character.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/abduction_from_the_serag.html (686 words)

	Royalty.nu - Ottoman Royal Women & Harems - Aimee Dubucq De Rivery
		Explores life in the world's harems from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, focusing on the fabled and mysterious Seraglio of Topkapi palace in Istanbul.
		The Harem: Inside the Grand Seraglio of the Turkish Sultans by Norman Mosely Penzer.
		An account of the institution as it existed in the palace of the Turkish sultans, with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times.
	www.royalty.nu /history/empires/Ottoman/harems.html (637 words)

	Event Announcement - Seraglio 2002: In the Hall of the Raj UPDATED
		If you would like to merchant at Seraglio 2002, please send a description of your wares to trixiecroft@yahoo.com or call (732) 300-0303.
		Please send $15.00, mundane name, address, membership number (if you are not a member, you will need to sign a waiver) and phone number for everyone in your party.
		If you prefer seraglio style seating, you will need to bring carpets, pillows, or anything you wish to sit upon.
	www.eastkingdom.org /event-detail.html?eid=526&p=1 (1277 words)

	Overture to the Abuduction from the Seraglio Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Overture to the Abducation from the Seraglio comes from the opera that was probably Mozart's most popular during his lifetime.
		The opera itself has some of the most brilliant and demanding music Mozart ever wrote and the overture is no exception.
		Overture to Seraglio can be found under Flute Choir.
	home.earthlink.net /~rgpierce/seraglio.html (142 words)

	Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Die (The Abduction from the Seraglio) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Belmonte, with Pedrillo’s help, plans to abduct Konstanze from the seraglio, but they are caught, much to Osmin's delight.
		The Pasha, however, exercises clemency, the more praiseworthy in that he now knows Belmonte’s father to have been his enemy and the cause of his own exile.
		Blonde too has her own moments, particularly in the scenes in which she repulses and teases Osmin, one of the great comic characters of opera.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Entfuhrung_aus_dem_Serail_Die(The_Abduction_from_the_Seraglio).htm (323 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans of Istanbul: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Freely has written dozens of books about Turkey and Istanbul, and is certainly well qualified to provide an account of the goings-on inside the seraglios of the old Ottoman emperors.
		His earlier Istanbul: The Imperial City is a fascinating guide to the splendours of the city, and Inside the Seraglio is a fitting pendant to that book.
		Scores of sumptuous illustrations, along with extensive selections from contemporary sources, give a rich sense of the "House of Felicity", the Topkapi Sarayi, in which generations of emperors indulged themselves.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140270566 (1054 words)

	Amazon.com: Inside the Seraglio : Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As indicated in the subtitle, "Inside the Seraglio" is about the 'private' lives of the Osmanli Sultans during the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
		Mostly, the author writes about the politics of the seraglio: the power of the Sultan's mother, the 'valide sultan'; the imprisonment and frequent murder of his brothers; the hierarchy of concubines, wives, favorites, and eunuchs.
		Another fascinating book about the Seraglio of Topkapi Palace in Instanbul is, "Harem: The World Behind the Veil," by Alev Lytle Croutier, whose grandmother actually lived in one.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140270566?v=glance (1776 words)

	JS Online: 'Seraglio' evokes '40s thrillers
		The jarring abutments in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" - of spoken dialogue and glorious song, low comedy and tense melodrama, careful plotting and arbitrary twist - bear remarkable resemblance to Hollywood thriller /comedies of the 1940s.
		David Gagnon portrays Belmonte in the Skylight Opera Theatre's production of Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio." The show continues through Oct. 10.
		The show, moved from 1782 to 1944, is now about an American girl and her British sidekick held by a Moroccan racketeer /pasha.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/sep04/261827.asp (580 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Seraglio by Janet Wallach
		But I hope it will provide a glimpse of her mysterious life in the seraglio two centuries ago.
		Perhaps, too, it will shed some light on the Muslim world today, whether it is a handful of rulers ensnared in plots for power and succession or the millions of women who still live cloaked behind the veil.
		Excerpted from Seraglio © Copyright 2005 by Janet Wallach.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/seraglio2.asp (645 words)

	Lalezar, Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Vol. IV: Ottoman Suite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is my second review for Turkish ensemble Lalezar as they continue their series on the Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio released by Traditional Crossroads.
		While each CD is set up to complement the others in the series, these two, at least, can stand on their own as well.
		My only caution is that I would suggest that you only try one to begin with so that you can decide on your own whether this style of music interests you.
	www.rambles.net /lalezar_sultans4.html (376 words)

	SoundStage! Mozart - The Abduction from the Seraglio
		Here we have yet another recording of Mozart’s The Abduction From The Seraglio -- this time by Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus on Telarc.
		His attempts to free them from the Pasha Selim and his overseer Osmin make up the bulk of the opera, and I’ll not spoil the ending by telling it here.
		The Abduction From The Seraglio was Mozart’s second opera (his first being Idomeneo in 1780) and one of the first things he wrote on moving to Vienna in 1781 at the age of 25.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev337.htm (638 words)

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