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seraglio

[si-ral-yoh, -rahl-] / sɪˈræl yoʊ, -ˈrɑl- /


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After making his professional debut in 1959 as First Prisoner in Beethoven's Fidelio at the Dresden State Opera, he saw his big breakthrough in 1962 as Belmonte in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2019

"There's always the need to balance a season between different periods, between what is familiar and what is new," said Conlon, who will conduct "Seraglio" and "Tosca."

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2016

Opera's first performances of Mozart's "The Abduction From the Seraglio" in 21 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2016

Last week she was collecting more bravos in a difficult role in which even her most ardent admirers had feared for her: the vocally acrobatic part of Constanze in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bolted gate of the Seraglio at last went up, and the fair Melechsala again passed through it into the garden, like the gay Sun through the portals of the East.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas




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