Mozart in Turkey

British director Elijah Moshinsky traveled to Istanbuls Topkapi Palace with a cast of gifted singers and actors to film a lavish production of Mozarts Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail aka The Abduction From The Harem and this documentary offers a look at both the behindthescenes efforts to put the project on screen and extended highlights from the resulting production Mozart in Turkey also touches on the operas performance history and Mozarts life at the time it was composed