The Abduction from the Seraglio

This performance from 2017 is a re creation of the famous production first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 1965. It was mounted to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of its director, Giorgio Strehler. That first production featured a cast led by Fritz Wunderlich, Anneliese Rothenberger and Fernando Corena. A television recording of the 1967 revival was issued on DVD: there the leading singers are Luigi Alva and Ingeborg Hallstein, with Corena, Reri Grist and Gerhard Unger repeating their roles. The conductor at Salzburg was Zubin Mehta, with the Vienna Philharmonic; and here he is again, half a century later, this time at La Scala, Milan.