The 19th Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival to begin on June 14

The Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival will take place in Aspendos Antique Theater in southern province of Antalya.

The Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival will take place in Aspendos Antique Theater in southern province of Antalya between June 14 and July 4, and between September 3 and 15, 2012.

 

The festival will begin with the “Turandot” opera by Izmir Opera and Ballet on June 14.

This year, audiences will have the chance to see the “Rigoletto” opera by the Estonia National Opera and the “Prince Igor” opera by The Yekaterinburg State Opera and Ballet Company and others.

South Korea's Daegu Opera will also take part in the festival; the Antalya State Opera and Ballet and South Korea Opera and Ballet will perform the “La Traviata” opera together. 

Festival History

Ancient Aspendos Theatre

While celebrating its 19 th Anniversary, International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival makes significant contributions to our country’s international promotion by bringing together the unique historical properties and the extraordinary acoustic of 2000 years old Aspendos Antique Theatre with Antalya’s natural beauties and the peaceful nature of art that reaches beyond the boundaries of language, religion and race. International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival, being the only opera and ballet festival of our country, has been the most important organisation of the Directorate General of State Opera and Ballet since 1994, gained an international recognition in 1998, and is nominated among the world’s most famous festivals. 

The fact of being held at an antique theater like Aspendos, whose history goes back to 166 A.D, gives a distinct meaning to the International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival. 

 
The audience, among whom % 70 are foreign tourists, has been seeing the performances of our festival every year. 

 
With its increasing spectators year by year, International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival has become a visual carnival where history, music and a large number of people from several nations come together. 

Our Festival, was accepted to EFA-European Festivals Association which is among the most respectful organisations in Europe, on October 24, 2003 and thus has confirmed its distinguished place among other festivals in the world once more.      

 
In 2004, as the result of a research done by The Independent, newspaper published in England, International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival ranked the 5th among 10 best opera festivals selected from among the renown opera festivals organized all over the world. Furthermore, International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival was given place within the first 10 among the Best Festivals of 2005 by the Festspiele Magazine, published in Germany, investigating all the festivals over the world.   

Programme

14 June Thursday 2012 Izmir State Opera and Ballet	TURANDOT	Opera
20 June Wednesday 2012 Estonian National Opera	RIGOLETTO	Opera
25 June Monday 2012 Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre	PRINCE IGOR	Opera
27 Haziran Wednesday 2012 Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre	LOVE AND DEATH	Ballet
30 June Saturday 2012 South Korea - Daegu Opera Antalya State Opera and Ballet Orchestra and Chorus	LA TRAVIATA	Opera
04 July Wednesday 2012 Mersin - Samsun State Opera and Ballet	ZORBA	Ballet
03 September Monday 2012 China - Beljing Opera Samsun State Opera and Ballet Orchestra	MADAMA BUTTERFLY	Opera
06 September Thursday 2012 Antalya State Opera and Ballet	LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR	Opera
10 September Monday 2012 Turkish State Opera and Ballet Companies	SWAN LAKE	Ballet
15 September Saturday 2012 Ankara State Opera and Ballet	TANNHÄUSER	Opera

Performances starts at 09:00 p.m. on june and 8:30 p.m. on September

Modifications can be made to the program, in case of necessity.

Ticket sales are made at the institution www.dobgm.gov.tr which is the official web page.

They select any province in our site and enter. After you enter your membership details, you will need to select Aspendos Festival from the part of ticket sales.

You can send e-mail to bilet@dobgm.gov.tr for your problems related to the purchase of tickets.


For more information:  http://www.aspendosfestival.gov.tr

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Antalya is one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in Europe. It is also a city of tolerance and diversity. It has all the advantages of a big city. To find out more on City of Antalya, visit Antalya City Blog!

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Turkey’s Biggest Little Festival SunSplash Antalya is a boutique music festival that combines style, travel and serious dance music. The festival promises a fantastically friendly crowd, an amazing beachfront venue and a blissful week of Sun, Sea, and Legendary Music.

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For More Information: http://sunsplash-festival.com

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We appreciate comments, feedbacks as well as "guest post" from anyone out there.  However, all these will be scrutinized for content purposes to coincide with our vision and objectives. Just drop us the mail at antalyacity.blog@gmail.com. 

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The Latest Issue of GM Tourism and Management Magazine Was Released!!!

 DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT

The 58th Issue of GM Tourism and Management Magazine was released. It is the professionals' reference supply for 8 years. In the 58th edition of GM Tourism and Management Magazine, there are very special issues and interviews.

GM's cover story, "Diagnosis and Treatment" shows the indications on the season, which is based on the statements made ​​on the course of examining with a critical eye. At this point, the magazine asks important questions: Does Tourism detached from society? or, Does the society detached from tourism? Through these questions, GM Tourism and Management Magazine brings up the relationship between society and tourism.

At the same time, GM assesses the past, present and future of Kemer with Kemer Mayor Mustafa Gül, President of GATAB Yusuf Uras, and Rixos Sungate Hotel's General Cem Uzan through "What is Happening in Kemer" research subject. 

Short news brief from the sector, issues related to management and personal development, events, openings and the meeting are also included to GM Tourism and Management Magazine's last edition. It continues to be a reference source for tourism professionals.

In the 58th Issue of GM Tourism and Management Magazine,

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Dosso Dossi Antalya Fashion Show 2012

This year, Dosso Dossi Fashion show will be held in Antalya Expo Center between June 7 to 14. Moreover, very famous stars will participate in 2012 Dosso Dossi Fashion Show Antalya.  Popular Russian singer and songwriter Stas Mikhaylov, Famous Russian pop singer Philip Kirkorov, "Lady in Red." Anna Chapman who was one of 11 accused Russian secret agents arrested by FBI agents, and Victoria Secret's Angel Erin Heatherton will participate in 2012 Dosso Dossi Fashion Show Antalya. Famous top model Adriana Lima has announced that could not participate Dossi Fashion Show in Antalya, because of her pregnancy.

There is a rumour that Erin Heatherton will come to Antalya with her boyfriend Leonardo Di Caprio, but it is not clear yet. Dosso Dossi Antalya Fashion Show will be between June 7 and June 14 in Antalya Expo Center.

How to go to Dosso Dossi Fashion Show?

2012 Dosso Dossi Antalya Fashion Show will be held in Antalya Expo Center. Antalya Expo Center is an indoor arena in Antalya, Turkey. It has a seating capacity for 3,800 people for sports events. It is located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of the Antalya Airport and 11 km (6.8 mi) northeast of the Antalya city.

Address: Pınarlı District, 07110 Aksu - Antalya

For More information:  http://www.dossodossi.com.tr

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Airshow Side 2012

 

Airshow Side is Turkey's the only air show that takes place on a regular basis. The Airshow Side will be held on 26-27 May in Side. 

The program of Airshow Side is organized by Side Municipality and organized under the leadership of world's leading aerobatics pilots Ali İsmet Öztürk, includes exciting aerobatic flights, parachute jumps, helicopter model, events such as demonstrtions and solo show of excitement on the Turkish F-16.

The Temple of Apollo

Where is Side? 

Side is an ancient city in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It is now a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in Turkey, near Manavgat in the province of Antalya. It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River (Köprüçay). Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across.

Today, Side has become a popular holiday destination and experiences a new revival. Side offers visitors a great choice of accommodation, as well as traditional shopping, bars and restaurants, and plenty of things to see and do.

For more information: www.airshowside.com

The Ancient Theatre in Side

A hospital dating back to the 6th century in Side

The Great Gate in the middle of Side's main street

The Coast of Side

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The day that Mustafa Kemal stepped on the Anatolian shore to start the Independence War is a cornerstone is the formation of modern Turkey.

Children sing the national anthem, play sports, parade, commemorate Atatürk, and are reminded of the values of democracy and Turkey.

Antalya City Blog celebrates  May 19, Commemoration of Ataturk and Youth & Sports Day of the Republic of Turkey!!!

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Famous Russian Music Group Fabrika (Фабрика) Performed in Bogazkent

Russian music group Fabrika gave a concert in Antalya's shining tourism town Bogazkent in 5 stars Alva Donna Exclusive Hotel & Spa on May 2.

Triple (Alexandra, Ekaterina and Irina) female singer group is Russia's most famous group. While Fabrika mostly sing in Russian, they have sung songs either partially or wholly in English, French, Italian and Kabardian.

The Alva Donna Exclusive Hotel&SPA is situated in Belek/Boğazkent, not far from the center of Belek. The distance to the center of Antalya is 50 km and the distance to Antalya airport is 40 km. The exclusive hotel has 447 rooms and Ultra All Inclusive concept. On the total hotel area of 50.000 m² we offer a lot of activities to our guests of every age. Apart from that we have many places to relax and to make your holiday in our wonderful hotel unforgettable. 

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  Alva Donna Hotel

  Tel: +90 242 731 00 25

  Fax: +90 242 731 00 91

  Address: Sahil District, Mimar Sinan Street, Bogazkent/Belek – ANTALYA

  E-mail: info@alvadonna.com

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Museums in Antalya

ANTALYA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

The Antalya Museum or Antalya Archaeological Museum is one of Turkey's largest museums, located in Konyaaltı, Antalya. It includes 13 exhibition halls and an open air gallery. It covers an area of 7,000 m² (75,000 sq ft) and has 5000 works of art are exhibited. In addition a further 25,000–30,000 artifacts which cannot be displayed are in storage. As a museum exhibiting examples of works, which illuminate the history of the Mediterranean and Pamphylia regions in Anatolia, Antalya Museum is one of the most important of Turkey's museums. The Museum won the “European Council Special Prize” in 1988.

Address: Konyaalti Street, No: 1, Antalya

Tel: +90 0 242 238 56 88 

Web site: http://www.antalyamuzesi.gov.tr

ATATÜRK'S HOUSE MUSEUM

Atatürk's House Museum is a national museum in Antalya, dedicated to the visits of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to Antalya City. The museum is located in a two-storey replica house, which was rebuilt original. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed during his official visits to Antalya in 1930 and 1935 in the mansion that belonged to the governorship of the province. In 1984, the building was handed over to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to be transformed into a house museum. The building had to be broken down in the frame of city's street widening project. With the financial support of a local electricity distribution company, the house was rebuilt at the same location. In 1986, the museum opened to the public. At the first floor, newspapers, photos and documents relating to Atatürk's visits to Antalya between March 6–10, 1930 and February 18–19, 1935 are on display. At the second floor, there are two working rooms and a bedroom. At another section on that floor, a collection of banknotes, coins, commemorative coins and postage stamps issued since the proclamation of the Republic is on the show.

Address: Işıklar Street, Muratpaşa, Antalya
Tel: 0 242 241 15 27

SUNA & İNAN KIRAÇ KALEİÇİ MUSEUM

Suna & İnan Kıraç Kaleiçi Museum is housed in two historic buildings in Kaleiçi of old Antalya, registered as cultural heritage. These heavily deteriorated buildings were purchased by Suna and İnan Kıraç and restored from 1993 to 1995. The first building is a typical two-story Turkish house with the traditional layout of exterior sofa. The garden has a part extending under the house, and called taşlık, which was a must for every Antalyan house.

Address: Barbaros District, Kocatepe Street, No: 25, Kaleiçi (Old City), 07100, Antalya

Tel: +90 0 242 243 42 74 

Web site:  http://akmed.kaleicimuzesi.com

ALANYA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

The museum has two sections where archaeological and ethnographical arts are exhibited and it was opened for visitors in 1967. The inscription dating from 625 B.C. discovered around Alanya with writing in the Phoenician language is one of the oldest artefacts and is exhibited here. They also exhibite carvings from Roman, Byzantine and Islmic Times in the yard of the museum.

Address: Ismail Hilmi Balci Street, Alanya, Antalya

Tel: +90 0242 513 12 28‎

ALANYA RED TOWER ETHNOGRAPH MUSEUM

The Red Tower is both a peerless work of Seljuk architecture and a building that has come to symbolize the modem city of Alanya. The tower is a defensive and surveillance structure built to protect the commercial activities of the Seljuk harbor and to guard against attacks directed against the castle from the landward approach. The tower was built in the year 1226, when the Seljuk Sultan Ala'addin Keykubad commissioned it from the architect Abu Ali of Aleppo, in present-day Syria. The architect's name is recorded in the inscription on the north facade of the tower. On the south facade a second inscription is dedicated to Ala'addin Keykubad, exalting and praising him as "ruler of the nations, the sultan of all the sultans of the world, guardian of justice, the sovereign of the land and the two seas [the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea], and the helper of Muslims." The tower is 29 meters in diameter and 33 meters tall. Above the first floor is a gallery consisting of small rooms that open onto a narrow corridor with a low ceiling running the full circumference of the tower. The second, third, and fourth floors of the tower are constructed as open terraces.The second floor, located just above the gallery, contains an open courtyard surrounded by sixteen large vaulted rooms - two along each of the eight sides of the octagonal structure. The third floor is similarly arranged around a central terrace, but this time with three smaller rooms situated along each of the eight sides of the tower. The fourth floor features defensive crenellations formed from alternating shields and apertures, accessible via a walkway that allows one to circumnavigate the tower .This monumental work of military architecture was restored between 1951-53 and is presently used to house a museum display on the art and architecture of the Seljuk period.

Address: Alanya Harbour, Red Tower, Alanya, Antalya

Tel: +90 0242 513 32 55

SİDE MUSEUM 

Located in Side town of Manavgat District 8 km from Manavgat. Ancient agora bath from A.D. 5-6th centuries, dating from Roman Age, was restored in 1960/61 and converted into a museum. The majority of exhibits in the museum are the ruins discovered by Prof. Dr. Arif Müfid Mansel in excavations during 1947-1967, in the ancient town of Side. There are inscriptions, weapon embossing from Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods, sculptures which are Roman Period copies of Greek originals, torsos, temples, tomb steles, portraits, ostotecs and column pedestals on exhibition in the museum. 

Address: Side, Manavgat, Antalya

Tel:  +90 0242 753 10 06 

ANTALYA TOY MUSEUM 

A new toy museum has opened in the southern province of Antalya, displaying 3,000 toys from the 1860s to the present. “There are some 150 toy museums in the world. This museum is opening in the city of Santa Claus and is one of the most successful ones in the world,” Sunay Akın, a writer and the owner of the Istanbul Toy Museum, said at the opening, which coincided with April 23 Children’s Day. Akın is a consultant for the new museum, which opened in the city’s historical Kaleiçi district and is being supported by the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality. The Antalya Toy Museum presents toys that have been collected from Turkey and around the world; some of the toys on display are hundreds of years old. Guests of the museum are welcomed by the cartoon character Red Kit, his dog, Rin Tin Tin, and their enemy, the Dalton Brothers. They also see toys recalling the Stone Age, the Space Age and other epochs. The museum also presents automobile and animal figures whose production began in the 1950s, as well as wooden toys made by Anatolian children. Other objects in the museum include small figurines of well-known film people such as Elvis Presley and Cher, as well as the heroes of films like “Casablanca,” “Gone with the Wind” and “King Kong.”

Address:  İskele Street, Kaleiçi Yat Limanı (Old City Marina), Antalya

Tel: +90 0 242 248 49 33 

Website:  http://oyuncakmuzesi.antalya.bel.tr

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Bogazkent Tower Park (Kuleli Park)

25 meters high clock tower and a water park is being built in the shining town of Antalya where is Bogazkent.  This project is unique in the region. 

Bogazkent Mayor Cengiz Gökoğlu announced that the Tower Park will enter service in early 2013.

Tower Park covering an area of ​​15 thousand 300 square meters, and the project will include a clock tower which will be held for the first time in the region. 

On the first floor of the Clock Tower, there will be a terrace with a beautiful panorama of Bogazkent.

This project is approved by the Director of Environment and Urbanism. 

There will be a buffet, two toilet, two rose statues, and 11 units of water-pitched arkad, sitting groups, pergolas and walkways in the project.

For more information: http://www.bogazkent.bel.tr

 

 

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Flower Festival is highlighting the positive role of purpose in the daily life of flowers and ornamental plants sector, the development community to ensure the formation of flower culture. Flower Festival in May each year, traditionally held in Antalya can be reached with the many domestic and foreign consumers.

Scope of the festival, activities for the promotion of floriculture sector made. Acquisition of these activities and international dimension to the festival as well as ornamental plants sector is aimed to contribute to tourism. The studies for the effectiveness of the festival, not only contributing to the economy of the region and beyond agriculture production and trade of ornamental plants from all over Turkey in dealing with a large smiley face and voice were important as part.

Flower Festival to be held in 2016 to create an infrastructure for Antalya Botanical Expo, as well as ornamental plants sector for the achievement of development goals is an effective promotional tool.

For more information: http://www.antalyacicekfestivali.org

 

THE 8TH ANTALYA FLOWERS FESTIVAL PROGRAM OUTLINE

25 to 27 May 2012

Activity 1: Expo 2016 video broadcast on the LED screen of Republic Square for 1 week.

May 25 Friday, 2012

Activity 2: The 2nd Workshop on Cut Flower Industries

Time: 09:00 to 16:00

Location: Assembly Hall of ATSO

May 26 Saturday, 2012

Activity 3: Flowers Clock Tower Building

Time: 09:00 to 00:00

Location: Antalya Republic Square

Activity 4: Antalya Endemic Plants Photography Exhibition

Location: Republic Square

Time: 12:00 to 00:00

Activity 5: Republic Square Stage Shows

Location: Republic Square

Time: 16:00 to 21:00

Activity 6: Flower Exhibition of Landscape Companies

Time: 16:00 to 21:00

Location: Republic Square

May 27 Sunday, 2012

Activity 3 D: Flowers Clock Tower Building - Continued

Time: 09:00 to 00:00

Location: Republic Square

Activity 4 D: Antalya Endemic Plants Photography Exhibition - Continued

Location: Republic Square

Time: 12:00 to 00:00

Activity 6: Flower Exhibition of Landscape Companies

Time: 16:00 to 21:00

Location: Republic Square

Activity 7: Republic Square Stage Shows

Location: Republic Square

Time: 16:00 to 21:00

Activity 8: Interflora Flower Arranging Design Contest

Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Location: Republic Square

Activity 9: Walking cortege

Route: Republic Square in front of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality

Time: 17:00-18:00

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