Harem 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. Much of Verdi's opera "Il corsaro" takes place in the harem of the Pasha Seid—where Gulnara, the Pasha's favorite, chafes at life in the harem, and longs for freedom and true love. Eventually
Elisabeth Carron Liu for her debuts with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company in 1959 and the Houston Grand Opera in 1960. In 1962 she made her debut at the San Francisco Opera as Constanze in "The Abduction from the Seraglio". Over the next several seasons she sang Cio-Cio San for her debut with several opera companies, including the Detroit Opera, the Cincinnati Opera, and the Caracas Opera. Carron also sang leading roles at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Washington National Opera, and in Tokyo. She lived in New York City with her husband, Marte Previti, a chemical engineer, with whom she