La Fête du Sérail

Musik aus Europa und dem osmanischen Harem des 18. Jh.

Music from Europe and the Ottoman Seraglio in the 18th century.

There was nothing more fascinating in the 18th century than the imagination of the seraglio and its related culture. Heady feasting, exotic flavours and luxury coined this conception. Women dominated the seraglio through that time and were apprenticed in music, poetry, elocution and science. In contrast to the association, they were not just objects of pure desire.

Woman like Dilhayat Kalfa composed music and dealed in a very intensive way with the culture of the christian europe.

In Christian Europe nobody actually knew, what happend in the seraglio for real. So tales and myths were accrued about life in the harem, and it still stands for the idea of the orient and kept its magical fascination. Cannabich’s ballet „La Fête du Serail“ entertains the idea of this subject, as well as Mozart’s „Zaide“. Music and chanting, tales and lyric poetry combine themselves to a feast for the senses. A vision of the orient...

Program:

Music from,
Cannabich: La Grande Fete du Sérail
Mozart : Zaide
Dilhayat Kalfa
Ali Ufki/Bobowski
Selim III.

Ensemble:

Ensemble L´Arte del Mondo
Pera Ensemble

Conductor Werner Ehrhardt

Pera Ensemble:

Mehmet C. Yeşilçay: UD; M. Ihsan Özer: KANUN; Volkan Yilmaz: NEY; Serdar Bişiren: PERCUSSION; Bekir Ünlüataer: VOICE

Cannabich Nr 3

Pictures from the concerts

Gomatz

Zaide, Sultan, Pera-Ensemble

Sultan