It is a parody of opera in general, and the title is a play on two operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro.

The premieres of Mozart's operas The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute are each the setting for key scenes of the play.

's life thus becomes something of a " frame story " ( albeit indirectly ) for such works as his opera The Abduction of Figaro.

There he conducted performances of Mozart's The Magic Flute, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Così fan tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro, earning himself a reputation as one of the finest interpreters of Mozart's work.

From June 26 until December 22, 2006, two children, Ammar ( 12-13 ) and Sara ( 10-11 ), lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus because of a child custody dispute between the Dutch mother, supported by Dutch law and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and the Syrian father, supported by Syrian law ( Syria is no participant of this convention ).

* March 7 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the future politician in colonial New Zealand.

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( K. 384 ; The Abduction from the Seraglio ; also known as Il Seraglio ) is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Abduction is the process of deriving a set of explanations of according to and picking out one of those explanations.

Abduction is then the process that picks out some member of.

Abduction is performed by finding a set such that.

Abduction in subjective logic is thus similar to probabilistic abduction described above.

* Abduction is guessing.

Within opera, the lowest demanded note for sopranos is A < sub > 3 </ sub > (" Ich Gehe, Doch Rate Ich Dir ", from Mozart's Abduction From The Seraglio ).

* The Abduction of Persephone, detail of a wall painting in Tomb I ( Small Tomb ) in Vergina, Macedonia, is made ( approximate date ).

His most important non-political work is an unfinished epic, De raptu Proserpinae (" The Abduction of Proserpina ).

French sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse made many terracotta pieces, but possibly the most famous is The Abduction of Hippodameia depicting the Greek mythological scene of a centaur kidnapping Hippodameia on her wedding day.

An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency ( SAME code: CAE ) is a child abduction alert bulletin in several countries throughout the world, issued upon the suspected abduction of a child, since 1996.

Carter's wife Alison ( Stephanie Turner ) is seen attempting to prise him away from the Squad in the episode " Jigsaw ", while her hostility toward Regan is apparent in the episode " Abduction ".

In the DVD commentary for " Abduction ", it is mentioned that the reason for this was that the actress was asking for too much money to continue to appear in the series.

The case earned substantial mass media attention, and is, along with the earlier Hill Abduction, among the best-known claims of alien abduction.

Campion was an executive producer for the 2006 documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story and is currently working on a 7 part mini-series, " Top of The Lake ( 2013 )" for HBO.

The Allagash Abduction is a purported UFO sighting and alien abduction that is alleged to have occurred in 1976.

* Mozart's opera " The Abduction from the Seraglio " ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail ), from 1782, is the quintessential work of Alla turca music, as the whole plot centers on the stereotyping of comically sinister Turks.

As in the French opéra comique, the singspiel was an opera with spoken dialogue, and usually a comic subject, such as Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio ( 1782 ).

Salieri's Chimney Sweep and Mozart's work for the same company in 1782, Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ) would be the only two major successes to emerge from the German singspiel experiment, and only Mozart's opera would survive on the stage beyond the close of the 18th century.

In 1781, shortly after Mozart had moved to Vienna, van Swieten met him again: at the salon of Countess Thun, Mozart played extracts from his recent opera Idomeneo, with van Swieten and other important officials in the audience ; this event helped instigate Mozart's commission for the opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, his first great success as a composer.

* Haydn's opera L ' incontro improvviso (" The Unforeseen Encounter ", 1775 ) is somewhat similar in its subject to Mozart's later " Abduction from the Seraglio " and also includes Alla turca music, for instance the overture.

A centuries-old theme in Western culture is the depiction of European women forcibly taken into Oriental harems – evident for example in the Mozart opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (" The Abduction from the Seraglio ") concerning the attempt of the hero Belmonte to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio / harem of the Pasha Selim ; or in Voltaire's Candide, in chapter 12 of which the old woman relates her experiences of being sold into harems across the Ottoman Empire.

She made her debut at the Royal Opera House the following year, in the premiere of Hans Werner Henze's We Come to the River, later singing in Handel operas such as: Semele, Alcina, Giulio Cesare, and such Mozart operas as: Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, La clemenza di Tito, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute.

* Abduction ( 1975 film ), directed by Joseph Zito

* Abduction, a music label run by Sun City Girls members

* Abduction ( novel ), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook

* Abduction !, a 2004 novel by Peg Kehret

* " Abduction " ( song ), a 2005 song by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

He followed that up some years later by declaring that the Iberian Peninsula rotated precisely at Perpignan station 132 million years ago – an event the artist invoked in his 1983 painting Topological Abduction of Europe – Homage to René Thom.

* “ Abduction from the Harem ” in Timewalker Issue 14 ( October 1996, published by Valiant Comics )

No prosecution may be instituted, except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions, for an offence of kidnapping if it was committed against a child under the age of sixteen and by a person connected with the child, within the meaning of section 1 of the Child Abduction Act 1984.

The Shrigley Abduction by 2003

Many items in the museum are on loan from colleges of the University, for example an important group of impressionist paintings owned by King's College, which includes Cézanne's ' The Abduction ' and a study for ' Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ' by Seurat.

After hearing the name of the sample, they will ask why it was named that upon which the customer would have some calamity related to the name of the dish happen to him or her such as being tackled by a Dancing Lobster upon trying the ice cream " Lobster Tackle ," being punched by Abraham Lincoln upon trying the soup " Lincoln Punch ", being attacked by a samurai upon trying the sushi " Samurai Roll ", being crushed by a refrigerator upon trying the cookie " Refrigerator Crunch ", being abducted by aliens upon trying " Alien Abduction Jerky ," or being blown away by strong winds upon trying a " Hurricane Dog ".