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Updated: May 22, 2025
The libretto of 'Die Entführung' is a poor affair at best, but, considering the materials with which he had to work, Mozart never accomplished truer or more delicate work than in the music of Belmont and Constanze, of Pedrillo, and greatest of all, of Osmin.
Osmin has a special motive for disliking Pedrillo, who has forestalled him in the affections of Blondchen, Constanze's maid; nevertheless he is beguiled by the wily servant into a drinking bout, and quieted with a harmless narcotic. This gives the lovers an opportunity for an interview, in which the details of their flight are arranged. The next night they make their escape.
Go and search the hotel for a man named Osmin, and a woman named Zaida, and take them both to the prefecture. "'What! cried the dey; 'this man is to enter my harem? "'He is not a man, replied the minister; 'he is a corporal of gendarmes. But if you do not wish him to go, send for Osmin and Zaida yourself. "'Will you promise to have them punished? enquired the dey.
Mohammed the Left-handed once more resumed his royal seat; but, after thirteen years of misfortune, this unhappy prince was again deposed for the third time, and imprisoned by one of his nephews, named Mohammed XII. the Osmin, who was himself afterward dethroned by his own brother Ismael, and ended his days in the same dungeon in which his uncle Mohammed Abenazar had languished.
Indeed, Osmin, one of the most original characters, is entirely his own creation, at Fischer's suggestion." Weber resembled Wagner, among other things, in the habit of carrying plans for operas in his head for many years. Thus we read that while on the look out for a subject for an opera he and Dusch hit upon "Der Freischütz," a story by Apel, then just published.
'Is it not your intention to cut off Osmin's head? "'That is no crime, answered the dey. "'Does not your highness purpose throwing Zaida into the sea? "'That is no crime, repeated the dey. 'I bought Osmin for five hundred piasters, and Zaida for a thousand sequins, just as I bought this pipe for a hundred ducats. "'Well, said the minister, 'what does your highness deduce from that?
NATURE: Oh! go and ask Him who made me. OSMIN: Do you not say that everything is necessary? SELIM: If everything were not necessary, it would follow that God had made useless things. OSMIN: That is to say that it was necessary to the divine nature to make all that it has made?
OSMIN: No; for what is necessary to one is not always necessary to the other: it is necessary for an Indian to have rice, for an Englishman to have meat; a fur is necessary to a Russian, and a gauzy stuff to an African; this man thinks that twelve coach-horses are necessary to him, that man limits himself to a pair of shoes, a third walks gaily barefoot: I want to talk to you of what is necessary to all men.
Accordingly Osmin was to be decapitated; and as to the offending lady, the next time the dey took an airing in the bay of Naples, she would be put into the boat in a sack, and consigned to the keeping of the kelpies.
SELIM: It seems to me that God has given all that is necessary to this species: eyes to see with, feet for walking, a mouth for eating, an oesophagus for swallowing, a stomach for digesting, a brain for reasoning, organs for producing one's fellow creature. OSMIN: How does it happen then that men are born lacking a part of these necessary things?
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