Abduction From The Seraglio at Source

Abduction From The Seraglio

Source
1835 14th Street, NW Washington

A new English adaptation by Bari Biern transplants Mozart's 'Abduction' story to the 19th Century Wild West, and then pushes the envelope even further. Belmont must rescue his beloved, the famous English actress Lillie Langtry-from the clutches of her obsessed admirer, the notorious 'Hanging Judge' Roy Bean, a.k.a. 'The Pasha".

Thru - Sep 22, 2013

Price: $40

Show Type: Performance Art

Running Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes with 1 intermission

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Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

"...Osmin, the harem guard with anger-management problems, is the best adapted, as an ill-tempered Black Bart overseeing the saloon and whorehouse of Judge Roy Bean, largely thanks to the broad Texas drawl and booming low notes of bass Jeffrey Tarr. Soprano Heather Bingham’s Constanze, here British actress Lillie Langtry, was at her best in the showpiece “Martern aller Arten,” happily shortened, and matched by the pleasing soubrette voice of CarrieAnne Winter as her maid with the more-or-less Cockney accent. Tenor Joseph Haughton was painfully earnest and a little shouty as Belmont, the Englishman who rescues Lillie from the judge, who has kidnapped her, with tenor Nephi Sanchez as his foppish valet."

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- Charles T. Downey

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...The In Series, DC’s own pocket opera company, has commissioned a new libretto for Mozart’s famous comic opera, Abduction from the Seraglio in an impressive and truly hilarious start to the season."

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- Jessica Vaughan

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...The result is a sweet-natured and surprisingly faithful adaptation of Mozart’s singspiel, aided by a strong stable of singers. Heather Bingham and Joseph Haughton, as Lillie and Belmont, anchor the production; both have superb voices that easily fill the Source theater’s cramped space. And Jeffrey Tarr, as Roy Bean’s straight-edge enforcer Osmond (who breaks edge for—of course—a girl), dominates every scene with his foghorn baritone and severe Texas drawl. The cast rounds out with a chipper, vaguely cockney CarrieAnne Winter as Blondie and Nephi Sanchez, better than he was in the In Series’ recent Clemenza di Tito, as Pedrillo. As Judge Bean, Scott Sedar mostly doesn’t sing, but he does have a convincingly flinty Clint Eastwood squint."

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- Mike Paarlberg

Washington Times - Recommended

"...Howdy, pardners! If ya gather round that there Source theater place on 14th St. NW some evenings this month, ya might just catch some of the doggondest music thee-ayter that folks in these here parts has ever seen. We’re talkin’ ‘bout that Wild West opera that German fella Mozart wrote, that “Abduction from the Seraglio” show being put on at the Source by them nice, talented In Series people."

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- Terry Ponick

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Many operas lose their voluptuous richness when they’re flattened into modern translation and costume. Not so with this sumptuous In Series update. Librettist Bari Biern closely knits Mozart’s German text of The Abduction from the Seraglio by Bretzer and Stephanie, into English, transforming the silly story about the rescue of entrapped heroines from a Turkish harem into an 1882 Wild West Western with a Hollywood ending.

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- Rosalind Lacy

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