collected in Great Days, Farrar, Strous & Giroux 1979, and in Sixty Stories, 1981) in which Belmonte, as narrator, is reconfigured into a cowboy sculptor (whose arias are Country & Western songs), Constanze into his ex-lover, a counter-culture free spirit seduced by the Pasha, who in turn is a Plymouth automobile dealer worth five million dollars a year. Belmonte's rescue attempt fails as Constanze decides to stay with the Pasha, and he is left bereft. Music professor, composer, and humorist Peter Schickele claims to have "discovered" P. D. Q. Bach's The Abduction of Figaro (1984), a pastiche of the Entführung and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. The Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen wrote an opera called The Palace (first performed 1995); it contains characters whose names are adapted from Abduction and loosely uses elements of the plot of Mozart's opera as the starting point of a satirical fantasy. References Notes Sources [This is a recent edition of a much older work.] Further reading Melitz, Leo, The Opera Goer's Complete Guide, 1921 version. (Synopsis adapted from this source) External links Libretto, critical editions, diplomatic editions, source evaluation (German only), links to online DME recordings; Digital Mozart Edition Score at William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University Libretto (singing parts only) Complete libretto Synopsis, German/English libretto, Opera Folio Die Entführung aus dem Serail, IMDb , Salzburg Marionette Theatre; Rita Streich sings Blonde, Josef Greindl Osmin, RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay, 1954 Operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart German-language operas Singspiele Rescue operas Operas Operas set in Turkey 1782 operas Opera world premieres at the Burgtheater Orientalism 1782 in Austria