CONCERT INFO

MICHAEL ELLISON music
SIMON JONES direction and adaptation
YASEMİN KUYUCAKLI, MICHAEL ELLISON, SIMON JONES libretto
EVRİM AKYAY choreography
TING HUANG stage and costume design
NIGEL EDWARDS lighting and video design

HEZARFEN ENSEMBLE
CAN OKAN conductor

FATMA AYDOĞAN, ERDEM ŞİMŞEK bozlak vocalists
CANAN ÖZGÜR, FERİDE BÜYÜKDENKTAŞ narrators
and DENİZ GÜNGÖREN
CANBERK YILDIZ, CHIARA GIORDA dancers

ÜMİT ÖZDEMİR production manager
CLAIRE LACOUT ÖZDEMİR production assistant and photographer
AÇELYA GÜLTEKİN costume-maker
OYA BARUT stage manager
ARGUN ÇAKIR stage manager assistant
TONY JUDGE video documentation
AYŞE SEMİHA BABAN, SINIBALDODE ROSA text consultant
NOHLab (CANDAŞ ŞİŞMAN, DENİZ KADER) production design consultant
ULRICH MERTIN, MICHAEL ELLISON ensemble codirectors
MÜGE HENDEKLİ project coordinator

CONCERT PROGRAMME

• A total music theatre by Michael Ellison, based on Yaşar Kemal’s novel of the same name*

* World Premiere
* Istanbul Music Festival commission

Duration: 100’ (w/o interval)

PRE-CONCERT TALK *
17 June Saturday 18.30-19.30
MICHAEL ELLISON and EVRİM AKYAY on “THE LEGEND OF THE THOUSAND BULLS: FROM THE NOVEL TO THE STAGE”
Moderator: ASUMAN KAFAOĞLU-BÜKE

* in English

The 51st Istanbul Music Festival holds the world premiere of a fascinating music theatre adaptation of The Legend of the Thousand Bulls by the literary giant Yaşar Kemal’s masterpiece composed by Michael Ellison.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. (Grant agreement no: 648810)