The 20th Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival

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

Festival History

Ancient Aspendos Theatre

While celebrating its 20 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 

2 June 2013, Sunday

Antalya State Opera and Ballet

20th Anniversary Gala Night

Conductor : José CURA

Concert

5 June 2013, Wednesday

Antalya State Opera and Ballet

ASPENDOS The Love of Centuries

Ballet

12 June 2013, Wednesday

National Theatre Brno, Czech Republic

Ankara State Opera and Ballet Orchestra

AIDA

Opera

15 June 2013, Saturday

Ankara State Opera and Ballet

RIGOLETTO

Opera

19 June 2013, Wednesday

İstanbul State Opera and Ballet

SWAN LAKE

Ballet

22 June 2013, Saturday

Mersin State Opera and Ballet

CARMEN

Opera

All the Performances start at 21.00 hrs.

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