– Vienna State Opera, Vienna

About this event

»It's exciting when the singers often let the actors do the talking. Not because they can't, they speak too, but because they address the question of singing and speaking together,« says director Hans Neuenfels in conversation with artistic director and dramaturge Klaus Zehelein. By doubling all the singing roles with actresses and actors, Neuenfels succeeds in making the actors' inner emotional conflicts effective in highly poetic reflections. In The Abduction from the Seraglio, according to the director, Mozart sets existential questions to music; the production takes up this thread and leads the audience deep into the different emotional levels of the actors. Hans Neuenfels: »The different states of perception, of feeling, of being can take place simultaneously through the splitting up of the characters. We are several at the same time, and this becomes visible through this interpretation, but not in the sense of schizophrenia. Identity is not a fixed quantity. The 'I' is fundamentally unreliable.«

Cast & creative

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  Conductor

  Constantin Trinks
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  Stage director

  Hans Neuenfels
• C

  Set designer

  Christian Schmidt
• B

  Costume designer

  Bettina Merz
• S

  Lighting designer

  Stefan Bolliger
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  Dramaturge

  Henry Arnold
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  Selim

  Marcus Bluhm
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  Konstanze - Schauspielerin

  Katharina Pichler
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  Constance

  Nikola Hillebrand
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  Blonde

  Ilia Staple
• S

  Blonde - Schauspielerin

  Stella Roberts
• W

  Osmin - Schauspieler

  Wolfram Ruppert
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  Belmonte

  Sebastian Kohlhepp
• C

  Belmonte - Schauspieler

  Christian Natter
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  Pedrillo

  Matthäus Schmidlechner
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  Pedrillo - Schauspieler

  Ludwig Blochberger