YUNUS EMRE ORATORIO
Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907 - 1991)
Text based on Yunus
Emre’s (1240 – 1320) Poems
Premiére: 25 May 1946
Ankara
07 November 1973, Ankara
State Opera Grand Theatre, Ankara
Niyazi Tağızade conductor
Leyla Gencer / Müfide Özgüç soprano [Debut]
Cemaliye Kıyıcı mezzo-soprano
Pekin Kırgız tenore
Ayhan Baran bass
Note: According to Bibliography of Turkish State Opera (2009 by Ömer Kaysı) Saygun’s Oratorio sung by Gencer in 1973 but I couldn’t find detailed information in local press.
BİBLİYOGRAFYA BY STATE OPERA
2009
