The American Opera Comany will present Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song, at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. Two lovers and the Sultan are the romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element.
This opera has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.
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