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1st Istanbul International Opera Festival >>
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Feature Article
1st Istanbul International Opera Festival
State Opera and Ballet General Directorate puts its signature under a huge project that will combine European Culture Capital Istanbul’s historical places with art. 1st Istanbul International Opera Festival will be organized as Istanbul 2010 European Culture Capital project with the support of Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Istanbul Governorship and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
Festival : It will be realized at the Yıldız Palace, Topkapı Palace, Rumeli Fortress and Cemil Topuzlu Outdoor Theatre during July 2010 under the Art Directorate of Yekta Kara, Head Director of State Opera and Ballet General Directorate. Operas about Turkish culture and life that are included in the repertoire of 1st Istanbul International Opera Festival such as The Abduction from the Seraglio, Fatih the Conqueror (Fatih Sultan Mehmet) and Zaide, will meet with the audience at brilliant İstanbul nights and at original historical decors.
The 4 weeks festival will remain in the minds of art lovers with 7 different opera productions and in total 17 performances. Besides the productions of Ankara, Istanbul, İzmir, Antalya and Samsun State Opera and Ballet, world’s most important and prestigious art institutions such as Deutsche Oper Berlin and Bremen Opera will also perform the most beautiful samples of opera as a company. The creation that performed its World Premier at November 2009 and adopted to the opera with musics of Ludger Vollmer from the movie of the famous Turkish director Fatih Akın “Against the Wall” (Duvara Karşı) will get out from the borders of Germany for the first time and will be a guest in the 1st Istanbul International Opera Festival. Also famous names of international music arena will also take to the stage in the festival as guest soloist artisans together with Turkish and foreign artisans.
2010 European Culture Capital Istanbul’s hosting for an international festival in a universal art branch such as opera, will befit to this world metropolitan; enrichment of the city by combining with its historical places will locate Istanbul to a uniqe place on the world. Thus, an important support will be provided for allowing the people of Istanbul to getting their share from the culture heritage in question by reaching the opera to the audience from all ages and all strata.
State Opera and Ballet General Directorate, as the bright face of our country opening to the world, gives importance to introduction of Turkish art and artisan to the world, introduction of the level that our country reaches in opera and ballet arts and arranges international organizations for realizing the presentation of international representors of these arts in our country. Some examples for these organizations are : Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival which is being performed since 17 years in Antalya, Aspendos Ancient Theatre; International Opera and Ballet Festival which is being performed since 8 years in the historical Bodrum Castle and the 2nd International Istanbul Ballet Competition which was organized as a Istanbul 2010 European Culture Capital project and put a signature under a big success.
With the 1st International Istanbul Opera Festival to be performed at July 2010, realization one of the international opera festivals, that are traditional at world’s important culture centers, in Istanbul and becoming an international event that will be done every year, is very important for permanently locating Istanbul on the world art map. Istanbul is declared as the European Culture Capital in 2010 and it reaches two fold population of many European countries with 15 million population and is a very important world metropolitan; so having an Opera Festival is a very important step for Istanbul for showing the dimensions of its historical development.
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