The Abduction from the Seraglio (1961)

Directed by

Alan Burke

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a television adaptation of Mozart's opera about a Spanish nobleman trying to rescue his beloved from a Turkish pasha's palace. It was sung in English and broadcast on Australian TV in 1961.

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What happens

The Abduction from the Seraglio is an Australian TV version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail and sung in English. It aired on 22 February, 1961, and again on 12 April, 1961, in Melbourne. It was one of a number of operas broadcast by the ABC in the early days of Australian television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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