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Seraglio: see Istanbul Istanbul , city (1990 pop. 6,748,435), capital of Istanbul prov., NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus at its entrance into the Sea of Marmara. Its name was officially changed from Constantinople to Istanbul in 1930; before A.D. 330 it was known as Byzantium.
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seraglio, serail
1. the harem of a Muslim house or palace
2. a sultan's palace, esp in the former Turkish empire
3. the wives and concubines of a Muslim

seraglio
1. An enclosed or protected place.
2. A palace.


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3 sings along touchingly, and the fifth concerto in A Major ("Turkish") is full of the onomatopoetic jingling and jollity that characterized Mozart in his Janissary moods, as in The Abduction From the Seraglio and the "Turkish" Rondo from the A-Major piano sonata, K 331.
A group of 20 pupils at the Bradley Bar high school were visited by professionals from Opera North for a workshop on Mozart's opera Abduction From The Seraglio.
The Abduction from the Seraglio plays again on Friday after tonight's Paradise Moscow.
 
 
 
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