(Photo: Vincent Pontet) The new production of Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” (“The Abduction from the Seraglio”) at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in coproduction with Opéra Grand Avignon and Insula Orchestra, attempts to philosophize the stereotypical bias and harm of Mozart’s farcical Singspiel about Orientalism. In the program notes Stage Director Florent Siaud explains, “The imaginary presence of the Orient {…}