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  • Thus saying, he turned his eyes towards the little point of land that jets out towards Asia from the Turkish city, known as Seraglio Point, a fairy-like cluster of gardens and palaces marking the spot.

    The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

  • Basses can be subdivided into the basso cantante ("singing bass"; Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra), the comic basso buffo (Don Pasquale), or the basso profondo ("deep bass"; Osmin in The Seraglio).

    Who's who: the different voices in opera 2011

  • He cites a particular production of Mozart's The Abduction From the Seraglio set in a Berlin brothel, with Selim as pimp and Konstanze one of the prostitutes.

    Art and Culture 2010

  • Turk Il Turco in Italia is homage to Mozart, a comic cocktail that mixes two parts Così fan tutte with a twist of Abduction from the Seraglio.

    Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

  • He cites a particular production of Mozart's The Abduction From the Seraglio set in a Berlin brothel, with Selim as pimp and Konstanze one of the prostitutes.

    Philosophy and Literature 2009

  • Turk Il Turco in Italia is homage to Mozart, a comic cocktail that mixes two parts Così fan tutte with a twist of Abduction from the Seraglio.

    Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

  • Turk Il Turco in Italia is homage to Mozart, a comic cocktail that mixes two parts Così fan tutte with a twist of Abduction from the Seraglio.

    Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

  • Turk Il Turco in Italia is homage to Mozart, a comic cocktail that mixes two parts Così fan tutte with a twist of Abduction from the Seraglio.

    Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011

  • Some of Mr. Bieito's most controversial productions, like his 2004 staging of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" at Berlin's Komische Oper, depict almost unwatchable scenes of brutality.

    Calixto Bieito's Second Act J. S. Marcus 2011

  • I…hope I shall not be suspected of a wish to supply subjects for romance…but…It is said, then, that Begum-Saheb, although confined in a Seraglio, and guarded like other women, received the visits of a young man of no very exalted rank, but of an agreeable person.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

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