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SEMIHA BERKSOY, (Turkish soprano, opera singer and painter), (1910-2004).Biblio.com

Concert pamphlet signed 'Semiha Berksoy'.

1955réf. 053357Istanbul: Original Concert Program Pamphlet with Autograph Signature 1955. No Binding. Very Good. Original concert program signed and inscribed by Semiha Berkdoy. 24x12 cm Folded size. Folded. 8 p. fully ills. Signed and inscribed by Berksoy. Semiha Berksoy was a Turkish opera singer and painter. Berksoy started her acting career in the role of Semiha in the first Turkish sound movie Istanbul Sokaklarinda directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1931. She was cast in operettas in Istanbul theaters early in her career. She sang in the first Turkish opera Özsoy in 1934 commissioned by Kemal Atatürk composed by Adnan Saygun. She was honored as the First Turkish Opera Singer and awarded the opportunity to go to Berlin Music Academy for further training. She started her international singing career in 1934 performing in Turkey Germany and Portugal becoming known as a Wagnerian soprano. In 1939 for the 75th birthday of Richard Strauss in Berlin she sang the role of Ariadne in Ariadne Auf Naxos becoming the first Turkish prima donna to perform on stage in Europe. Back in Turkey she worked with Carl Ebert helping him in his efforts to create the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. This initiative leads to the creation of the Experimental Stage of the Ankara State Conservatory 1940. She retired from the Istanbul Opera in 1972. She was decorated with the "Atatürk Opera Award" at the 50th-anniversary ceremonies commemorating the introduction of women's rights to vote and to be elected. She received the title of "State Artist" in Turkey in 1998. Following her retirement she remained active mostly as a theater artist. Four years preceding her death at the age of 90 she appeared in a dramatic scene singing Liebestod in Robert Wilson's opera The Days Before: Death Destruction and Detroit III at the Lincoln Center in New York City 1999. Original Concert Program Pamphlet with Autograph Signature unknown

Khalkedon Rare Books ABA, ILAB, IOBA, ESA · Turquie150,00 $US≈ 133,75 €

SEMIHA BERKSOY, (Turkish soprano, opera singer and painter), (1910-2004).Biblio.com

Semiha Berksoy. Artist catalogue. Texts by Ferit Edgü Beral Madra.

1992réf. 053360Istanbul: Akbank 1992. Soft cover. Fine. Paperback. Oblong large 8vo. 23 x 24 cm. In English and Turkish. 36 p. color ills. Signed and inscribed by the artist as 'Coskun Sensoy'a saygilarla'. Dated 2.10.1992. Semiha Berksoy was a Turkish opera singer and painter. Berksoy started her acting career in the role of Semiha in the first Turkish sound movie Istanbul Sokaklarinda directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1931. She was cast in operettas in Istanbul theaters early in her career. She sang in the first Turkish opera Özsoy in 1934 commissioned by Kemal Atatürk composed by Adnan Saygun. She was honored as the First Turkish Opera Singer and awarded the opportunity to go to Berlin Music Academy for further training. She started her international singing career in 1934 performing in Turkey Germany and Portugal becoming known as a Wagnerian soprano. In 1939 for the 75th birthday of Richard Strauss in Berlin she sang the role of Ariadne in Ariadne Auf Naxos becoming the first Turkish prima donna to perform on stage in Europe. Back in Turkey she worked with Carl Ebert helping him in his efforts to create the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. This initiative leads to the creation of the Experimental Stage of the Ankara State Conservatory 1940. She retired from the Istanbul Opera in 1972. She was decorated with the "Atatürk Opera Award" at the 50th-anniversary ceremonies commemorating the introduction of women's rights to vote and to be elected. She received the title of "State Artist" in Turkey in 1998. Following her retirement she remained active mostly as a theater artist. Four years preceding her death at the age of 90 she appeared in a dramatic scene singing Liebestod in Robert Wilson's opera The Days Before: Death Destruction and Detroit III at the Lincoln Center in New York City 1999. Akbank paperback

Khalkedon Rare Books ABA, ILAB, IOBA, ESA · Turquie150,00 $US≈ 133,75 €

Karsavina, Tamara (1885-1978). Russian Prima Ballerina who was a principal artist with the Imperial Russian Ballet and DiaghilevBiblio.com

ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH of the Russian Prima Ballerina TAMARA KARSAVINA by Edmund Harrington INSCRIBED & SIGNED in Russian by KARSAVINA.

1947réf. 1014391947. 1947. Very good. - An original 9 inch high by 6-1/2 inch wide silver-hued black & white photograph of the Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina by Edmund Harrington though the photographer is not here identified. The image portrays Tamara Karsavina attired in her costume with pinafore dress jacket and kokoshnik designed by Natalia Goncharova. The photograph is inscribed & signed in Russian within the image by the Prima Ballerina. Roughly translated the inscription reads: "To dear Grigory Vasilyevich in memory of pleasant friendly meetings and as a pledge of a future reunion / Tamara Karsavina / 1947". The photograph is mounted onto 10-1/4 inch high by 7-1/7 inch wide heavy cream stock. The edges of the mount are soiled and there is tiny tear in the top left of the photograph. Very good. "One of the solos danced by Karsavina was the Russian Dance for which her blue costume pinafore-dress jacket and kokoshnik was designed by Natalia Goncharovs. Karsavina was photographed by Apeda in a first version of this costume wearing the dress over a white long-sleeved round-necked blouse reproduced in the Sketch 29 April 1925 and in the second version the jacket replacing the blouse by Edmund Harrington ca.1929". Quoted from the "Victoria & Albert Museum". Renowned for her beauty the Russian prima ballerina Tamara Platonovna Karsavina 1885-1978 was a principal dancer of the Imperial Russian Ballet and subsequently of Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Ballet. Settling in Great Britain she is recognized as one of the founders of modern British Ballet and assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and the Royal Academy of Dance. The costume designer Natalia Goncharova 1881-1962 was a Russian avant-garde artist painter costume designer writer illustrator and set designer. She and her partner Mikhail Larionov were founding members of Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group the Jack of Diamonds and the radical Donkey's Tail. She and Larionov invented Rayonism. She moved to Paris and was a member of the German art movement Der Blaue Reiter. 1947.

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 401,25 €