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- Title
Carl Ebert: the patron behind the history of the State Opera in Turkey.
- Authors
Pesen, Alaz
- Abstract
The first opera librettos to be translated and performed by the State Opera during the early republican period in Turkey were selected by of Carl Ebert, a professional musician of Judeo-German origin, appointed by the Turkish government as part of its cultural planning policies. Filling in a blank space in the intersection of translation, music and history. The present study demonstrates how song translation assumed a formative role in introducing the opera genre into the Turkish cultural repertoire during a period of intensive state-controlled westernization.
- Subjects
EBERT, Carl; LIBRETTO; WESTERNIZATION; MUSIC history; TRANSLATIONS
- Publication
Tradução em Revista, 2019, Issue 27, p123
- ISSN
1808-6195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17771/PUCRio.TradRev.45917