Opera emphasizes comedy in Mozart's 'Abduction'

"The Abduction From the Seraglio" is the musical equivalent of the White House Christmas tree: It's bright and ornamented to the hilt. Thankfully, Anchorage Opera has gathered a talented ensemble of singers who are trained to navigate Mozart's intensely embellished work.

The opera's season opener Saturday evening in the Discovery Theatre was heavy on vocal gymnastics, light on plot and positively drenched in comedy.

A pretty basic damsel-in-distress tale, "Abduction" is not Mozart's most compelling story line, but it does contain some of his more interesting characters. A Spanish nobleman named Belmonte tries to rescue his beloved Constanza and their two servants, Blonda and Pedrillo, from a Turkish pasha. No easy task, since the pasha loves Constanza, and his oafish overseer Osmin is obsessed with Blonda (even though she continually threatens to scratch his eyes out).


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