Antalya State Theater

Super

Unbelievable value.

Lots of turkish theater acts. Very cheap. Nice place

its theatre, what you can say more)) nice plays, but not a lot, refresh ones in 6 months, price for tickets very good. just on turkish language.

Every winter a good choice when you go want to out in Antalya

State operat, balet and theater building. Not a lovely monument but very close to City centre. You can see many concerts and shows in cheap prices. Can buy tickets online on the official website.

For the best theater experience you should visit here.

Okay, from the get go I will suggest that Voldova, the Bulgarian ballet dancer of the Antalya state opera and ballet as Juliette was the finest thing going for Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliette I saw a few weeks ago. Dancing in the Swan Lake may be the pinnacle of the profession, but playing the Juliette role, I would think most ballerinas would love to dance. That is the impression I had when I saw Ms. Voldova flow in Romeo’s arms like water. Especially in the balcony scene, I thought she was going to be flying off the balcony and disrupt the minimum social distance required, especially during this pandemic these days. The feuding between the families was well choreographed and the décor in the background, albeit pretty lean, still depicted the era to a large extent. Despite all these positives, the absence of an orchestra was terribly missed. This is the first time that I have actually seen the stage performance of a ballet without the orchestra in the pit where you normally go take a look at the musicians just before taking your seat. The orchestra is not there because of the Covid, which is conceivable, or because we didn’t have the budget or we did not have the musicians. When the Turkish Republic is about to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the modern secular country frankly, it’s unfortunate that we cannot have the performance of a very famous ballet in one of the major cities of Turkey, supposed to be spelled Turkiye, these days, with a full-fledged orchestra. Luckily, a few days later I watched Barber of Seville, an opera, at the same place with the accompaniment of a very good well conducted orchestra. But this time, there was no stage decorum. But just like my grandmother used to say, if it’s not one thing, it’s another thing. Hasim Iscan cultural center is not a very attractive building despite its intended reason for its existence. It is an enormous building and the center probably holds hundreds of people primarily designed to hold annual meetings, conventions, or for sizeable crowds in attendance. It has no decoration per se, none of this extravagant adornments of the walls, chandeliers, etc. one would normally see at western concert halls. Regardless, the ballet was very well attended by mostly young people, which gave me a lot of hope for the future of Antalya and its cultural events to come.