Word: seraglio
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...machinations of palace politicians back in the days when the Sultan conspired with the Keeper of the Seraglio were mock-tragic attempts to make political play amusing. President Eisenhower's "understanding" with Nixon stirs up fond memories of those Arabian fantasies, and it looks as if the palace guard is once again emerging as a political reality...
...immense shadow box. Callas had committed herself to a murderously difficult concert of eight operatic arias. All week she had kept trying to cut the number down to three, but Impresario Kelly held firm, and eight it was. She opened with a Mozart aria from The Abduction from the Seraglio, which she did in harsh, mediocre style. With two arias from Bellini's I Puritani, Callas hit her stride, rippling down her famed arpeggios, her tone pure and vibrant...
...Boston Symphony couldn't get Presley; they settled for Mozart. Munch is matador to a classical host of bulls: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. The overture to Abduction from the Seraglio, and Strauss' Heldenleben. All seats are in the shade. At Symphony Hall, tonight...
...trills and arabesques of coloraturas as easily as she trumpets out a stinging dramatic climax. Like her operatic sisters of a century ago, La Callas can sing anything written for the female voice. Because of her, La Scala has revived some operas (Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, Verdi's Sicilian Vespers, Cherubini's Medea) that it had not staged for years because no modern diva could carry them...
...room, visiting historic Sintra and going for a ride in his speedboat, is so enraptured that she offers Rains $1,000,000 to deliver her husband dead so that she can inherit his vast fortune and buy Ray a new boat. And spirited Yvonne keeps sneaking out of the seraglio to sigh against Ray's shoulder and warn him to be careful. Ray has scarcely time left over to retrieve the missing husband, dispose of Badman Lederer, spurn Maureen, see Rains led off to jail, and walk into the blue dawn with lovely, cat-eyed Yvonne...