Die Entführung aus dem Serail

‘Let love live, let love be our treasure,’ sing the couples in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio. Yet love’s happiness in this opera is far from guaranteed: Despite the monogamous promises and the musical heights filled with longing and humor, not everyone knows how to restrain their desires, especially the female characters, who sense in the roulette of romantic love the promises of infidelity. Or does monogamy indeed bring happiness?