Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi

Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi ("The Legend of Mt Ararat") is a 1971 Turkish-language opera by Çetin Işıközlü. Mount Ararat is Mount Ağrı, Ağrı Dağı, in Turkish (wikt:ağrı can also mean "pain", "affliction"). The plot is based on the 1970 epic novel of the same name, Ağrıdağı Efsanesi, by Yaşar Kemal.[1]

Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi
by Çetin Işıközlü
Mount Ararat
TranslationThe Legend of Mt Ararat
LanguageTurkish
Based onAğrıdağı Efsanesi
by Yaşar Kemal

Recordings

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  • Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi Ankara State Opera & Ballet Orchestra, Erol Erdinc

References

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  1. ^ Evin İlyasoğlu 71 Turkish composers- Page 170 - 2007 Operas Op.4 Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi / The Legend of Ararat (Yaşar Kemal'in romanı üstüne/after the novel of Yaşar Kemal), 1971"