Join Matt and Sierra as they provide a brief engagement with the complicated relationship between Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782) and the opera’s connection to the Ottoman military marching band mehter.

The works referenced in the episode include Eve R. Meyer's “The Image of the Turk in European Performing Arts” in Süleyman the Second and his Time, Halil İnalcık and Cemal Kafadar, eds. (ISIS Press, 1993); Herbert Lindenberger's "On opera and society (assuming a relationship)" in Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception (Cambridge Studies in Opera) (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Libretto: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Music by W.A. Mozart, Original text by C.F. Bretzner, English version, John W. Bloch (G. Schirmer, 1962); and Larry Wolff's “Osmin in Vienna: Mozart’s Abduction and the Centennial of the Ottoman Siege” in The Singing Turk (Stanford University Press, 2016).