Похищение из сераля
The scenario of Sallinen's fifth opera, between "Kullervo" (Los Angeles 1992) and "King Lear" (Helsinki 2000) is loosely based on Mozart's 1781 singspiel "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", and on Ryszard Kapuściński's 1978 book "" which described the fall of Haile Selassie, last Emperor of Ethiopia.