Editing Die Entführung aus dem Serail (section)

==Adaptations==
The [[Australian Broadcasting Commission]] made a TV production in 1961 as the English-language ''[[The Abduction from the Seraglio (film)|The Abduction from the Seraglio]]'', using outdoor filming in addition to the stage setting.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Age]]|title=Four TV Opera Debuts in ''The Seraglio''|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8qQUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s7EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7385%2C718127|department=TV/Radio Supplement|via=Google News Archive|date=6 April 1961|page=3}}</ref>

The American post-modernist writer [[Donald Barthelme]] wrote a surreal comic short story entitled "The Abduction from the Seraglio" (published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in January 1978,<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/01/30/the-abduction-from-the-seraglio "The Abduction from the Seraglio"] by [[Donald Barthelme]], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', 30 January 1978, p. 30</ref> collected in ''Great Days'', Farrar, Strous & Giroux 1979, and in ''[[Sixty Stories (book)|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.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Music professor, composer, and humorist [[Peter Schickele]] claims to have "discovered" the fictitive composer [[P. D. Q. Bach]]'s ''[[The Abduction of Figaro]]'' (1984), a [[pastiche]] of the {{lang|de|Entführung}} and Mozart's ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/30/arts/opera-peter-schickele-s-abduction-of-figaro.html "Opera: Peter Schickele's ''Abduction of Figaro''"] by [[John Rockwell]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 30 April 1984</ref>

The Finnish composer [[Aulis Sallinen]] wrote an opera called ''[[Palatsi (opera)|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.<ref>[http://composers.musicfinland.fi/musicfinland/fimic.nsf/0/A0D36DCB163557E6C2257537003FB04D?opendocument "Some Thoughts on ''The Palace''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122081800/http://composers.musicfinland.fi/musicfinland/fimic.nsf/0/A0D36DCB163557E6C2257537003FB04D?opendocument |date=2016-01-22 }} by [[Aulis Sallinen]], musicfinland.fi, 1995</ref>