Barcelona's Teatre del Liceu presents Mozart's singspiel in an elegant
production by Christof Loy with a splendid cast of top stars headed by
coloratura soprano Diana Damrau in her debut at Spain's largest and most
distinguished opera house. Damrau's "charismatic stage presence
announced... that we were in the presence of a great singer", wrote Opera
News. Starring along with Damrau are Olga Peretyatko, Christoph Strehl,
Norbert Ernst and Franz-Josef Selig. Christof Loy portrays Konstanze and
Blonde as having developed profound feelings of respect, admiration and
even love for their captors.