Othello in the Seraglio Comes to Old Town Hall

Salem, MA - Salem Classical is presenting Othello in the Seraglio, the Tragedy of Sumbul the Black Eunuch to the Old Town Hall on Monday, Feb. 29.

The coffeehouse opera was conceived and composed by Mehmet Ali Sanlikol.

The Boston Music Intelligencer wrote that the musical brings timeless enchantment to the age-old story with gorgeous music.

With eleven musicians and a storyteller, Othello in the Seraglio is scaled to the intimate, informal setting of a coffeehouse in seventeenth century Istanbul (Constantinople). The storyteller spins out a well-known tale, an historically-based legend of love and jealousy, intensified by the crossing of boundaries between the free and the enslaved, white and black, Muslim and non-Muslim, East and West, according to Sanlikol’s website.

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