Many operas lose their voluptuous richness when they’re flattened into modern translation and costume. Not so with this sumptuous In Series update. Librettist Bari Biern closely knits Mozart’s German text of The Abduction from the Seraglio by Bretzer and Stephanie, into English, transforming the silly story about the rescue of entrapped heroines from a Turkish […]The post The Abduction from the Sera…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM on September 11, 2013