It opens as the hero reaches a seaside plaza and finds an old man picking figs in the garden and singing about unreliable lovers.
It opens as the hero reaches a seaside plaza and finds an old man picking figs in the garden and singing about unreliable lovers. At the beginning of Act II, an English girl threatens to scratch this man's eyes out, before the female lead enters singing the arias "Traurigkeit" and "Martern aller Arten" or "All kinds of martyrs." With a libretto by Christoph Bretzner, this opera's last act sees the capture of Blondchen and Pedrillo by the newly awoken old man Osmin, along with the capture of Belmonte and Konstanze. All ends well though when the Pasha Selim pardons everyone in, FTP, this three act comic opera by Mozart about rescuing a lover from the titular Turkish palace.
It opens as the hero reaches a seaside plaza and finds an old man picking figs in the garden and singing about unreliable lovers.
{Abduction from the Seraglio} (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)