Abduction from Hangar 7 – Salzburger Festspiele Fernsehproduktion

On August 26, Hangar-7 at the Salzburg Airport was transformed into an event location resounding with culture, when Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, produced especially for TV viewers in co-production with ServusTV, was broadcast live from there. 

I just found this copy of the broadcast. Watch it before it disappears. We'll chat about it later.

(Updates 9/9/2013: 1. Rebecca Nelsen is Blonde in this production. 2. You can see a much higher quality video at the Servus TV website.) 

Here are some notes about the location:

Ordinarily home to a collection of historic Flying Bulls airplanes as well as Formula 1 race cars, a space for art exhibits, the restaurant Ikarus, the bars of the Outdoor Lounge and a café, Hangar-7 turns into an opera setting and a TV studio for Mozart’s play with music about an abduction – performed not on stage in front of a seated audience, but at various locations embedded in the normal course of evening events at Hangar-7 – a great artistic and technical challenge. In front of your TV at home, you will enjoy the “best seats in the house,” for the individual scenes are meant to form a unified whole when viewed on screen.

It looks like there's a bit of theater-within-a-theater action going on. Here's the list of cast and production folks: 

Desirée Rancatore (Konstanze) 

Javier Camarena* (Belmonte) 

Daniela Fally Rebecca Nelsen (Blonde) 

Thomas Ebenstein (Pedrillo) 

Kurt Rydl** (Osmin) 

Tobias Moretti (Pasha Selim) 

Salzburg Bach Choir

Camerata Salzburg 

Hans Graf, conductor 

Adrian Marthaler, director 

Felix Breisach, television director 

Lena Hoschek, costumes 

Alois Glassner, Chorus 

Ronny Dietrich, Dramaturgy

*Ferrando in the "Don't drink the blue kool-aid, Fiordiligi!" Cosi

**An Osmin among Osmins.