XVIII Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Fesival

Programme 09 June - 02 July

09 June Thursday 2011 İstanbul State Opera and Ballet	G. Bizet CARMEN	Opera
13 June Monday 2011 Antalya State Opera and Ballet	L.Cherubini MEDEA	Opera
16 June Thursday 2011 İzmir State Opera and Ballet	G. Verdi OTELLO	Opera
20 June Monday 2011 Directorates of State Opera and Ballet	B.Murphy / M.Dede BARBAROSSA	Dance Drama
21 June Tuesday 2011	VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA	Concert
23 June Thursday 2011 Ankara State Opera and Ballet	W.A. Mozart DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL	Opera
29 June Wednesday 2011 Directorates of State Opera and Ballet İzmir State Opera and Ballet Orchestra	P.İ. Çaykovski SWAN LAKE	Ballet
02 July Saturday 2011 Abay Kazakhstan Academic State Opera and Ballet	G.Puccini TOSCA	Opera
Performances start at 9.00 pm. (Only Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Concert shall start at 9:30 p.m.)

Festival History

While celebrating its 18 th Anniversary, Aspendos International 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. Aspendos International Opera & 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 Aspendos International Opera & 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, Aspendos International Opera & 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, Aspendos International Opera & Ballet Festival ranked the 5th among 10 best opera festivals selected from among the renown opera festivals organized all over the world. Furthermore, Aspendos 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.    

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