COMPOSERS: Mozart
LABELS: DG
WORKS: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
PERFORMER: Thate, Streit, Winska; Vienna State Opera/Harnoncourt; dir. Ursel & Karl-Ernst Herrmann (Vienna, 1989)
CATALOGUE NO: DG 073 4540
Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann’s austerely self-designed 1989 Viennese production takes itself so seriously that Mozart’s comedy becomes a laughter-free zone. George Hall