El Rapto en el Serrallo y el romanticismo mozartiano

Abstract

Opera composed in his youth, close reflection of the composer’s biography, related to his personal circumstances (the conquer of freedom and his wish of marriage) as well as to his most deep ideals (mercy as a universal human value) and also to his secret fears (jalousie, infidelity), The Abduction from the seraglio points out at a strongly romantic moment in the aesthetic-spiritual itinerary of W. A. Mozart. The sublimation of the beloved woman, her “divinization” through martyrdom and suffering, raises the important issue of love’s truth, that will occupy the dramatic thought of the composer till his last opera.