Word: seraglio
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Boston Summer Opera Theater presents Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio. Tickets: $3. Thursday and Friday, February...
...seraglio, however, sex was sometimes secondary to intrigue, and the queen mothers and chief eunuchs often ruled the roost as much as the rooster. Too much ikbal resulted in too many male heirs eligible to succeed as sultan. Aggressive siblings-or their mothers-cut down the rival candidates neatly. As soon as he was named sultan in 1595, for example, Mohammed III murdered 19 half brothers and, to be certain of obliterating all possible competition, also killed seven of his father's concubines who happened to be pregnant at the moment. This was extreme even by Topkapi ground rules...
...army at the age of 27, Ponelle had already done work for every major German opera house as well as the Paris and Vienna operas. Quick and versatile, he has designed everything from a production of Hello, Dolly! to a TV version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, is now talking to the Metropolitan Opera about a 1970 commission. Ponelle earns about $60,000 a year from his designs, lives with his actress wife Margit and son Pierre, 11, in a two-story villa outside Munich...
...program Adams chose for the group demanded a far higher level of musical competence than one can reasonably expect of any undergraduate organization--even one as fine as BSO. The works, Mozart's overture to "The abduction from the Seraglio", Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, the Adagio from Mahler's Symphony No. 5, and Debussy's "L'Apres Midi d'une Faune", would trip up even the most agile professionals...
...purple-bloomer at-home costume or a short white cocktail dress, she slashes the neck well below the bustline and the back even lower, laces the precarious bodice together by wrapping it with 13 feet of jersey string. The seductive effect is straight out of a seraglio...