Airs Saturday, May 7, at 12 noon. The 2015-16 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season closes with a live broadcast of Mozart’s Die EntführungausdemSerail – The Abduction from the Seraglio – conducted by Met Music Director James Levine, who will assume the new title of Music Director Emeritus at the conclusion of the Met’s current season. Soprano AlbinaShagimuratova makes her network role debut as Konstanze, opposite rising tenor Paul Appleby as her fiancé, Belmonte. Soprano Kathleen Kim sings the maid Blondchen, with debuting tenor Brenton Ryan as Pedrillo, and bass Hans-Peter König as Osmin, the overseer of the harem. Die EntführungausdemSerail will be heard live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. CT on Saturday, May 7.
Metropolitan Opera: Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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Hans-Peter König as Osmin in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail";
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Kathleen Kim as Blondchen in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail"
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Kathleen Kim as Blondchen and Hans-Peter König as Osmin in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail";
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Kathleen Kim as Blondchen, Brenton Ryan as Pedrillo, Albina Shagimuratova as Konstanze and Paul Appleby as Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail"
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