The Met mounts Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
 |
| I've got a tenor on my shoulder: Hans-Peter König (left) clowns as Osmin as Pedrillo (Brenton Ryan) tries to sneak past in a scene from Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Photo by Marty Sohl © 2016 The Metropolitan Opera. |
The James Levine era is ending at the Met. In fact, the company's current revival of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail is the last production that Mr. Levine will lead as music director before he adds "emeritus" to that title and makes way for a new conductor to take over his job. So it was an especially warm and appreciative audience that greeted him Tuesday nigh. It's fitting that Entführung is his last big show, it is an opera that he restored to the company's repertory after a 30-year absence, way back in 1979.
