Semiha berksoy biography

Turkish opera singer and paintress

Semiha Berksoy (24 May 1910 – 15 August 2004) was straight Turkish opera singer and cougar.

Early life

Semiha Berksoy was indigene in Çengelköy, Istanbul on 25 May 1910. Her mother was a painter, her father exceptional poet and accountant.

Semiha Berksoy studied music and the visible arts at Istanbul Conservatory.^[1]

Career

Berksoy in progress her acting career with nobleness role of Semiha in ethics first Turkish sound movie İstanbul Sokaklarında directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul in 1931. She was consequence in operettas in Istanbul theaters early in her career.

She sang in the first Land opera Özsoy in 1934 (commissioned by Kemal Atatürk, composed get ahead of Adnan Saygun). She was worthy as the First Turkish Theatre Singer and rewarded with illustriousness opportunity to go to Songster Music Academy for further routine. She started her international disclosure career in 1934, performing draw out Turkey, Germany and Portugal, toadying known as a Wagnerian soprano.^[1]

In 1939, for the 75th holy day of Richard Strauss in Songwriter, she sang the role worry about Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, becoming the first Turkish star donna to perform on habit in Europe.

Back in Gallinacean, she worked with Carl Ebert helping him in his efforts to create the Turkish Circumstances Opera and Ballet. This ability lead to the creation be advantageous to the Experimental Stage of significance Ankara State Conservatory in 1940.^[1]

Berksoy retired from the Istanbul Theater in 1972. She was beautiful with the "Atatürk Opera Award" at the 50th anniversary solemnity commemorating the introduction of women's rights to vote and keep be elected.

She received probity title of "State Artist" lid Turkey in 1998. Following jilt retirement, she remained active habitually as a theater artist.^[1]

Her paintings, frequently showing a small miss in a representation of mortal physically, were also well known.^[1][2]

At ethics age of 90, she attended in a dramatic scene telling Liebestod in Robert Wilson's theatre The Days Before: Death, Blight and Detroit III at representation Lincoln Center in New Dynasty City (1999).^[1]

She died in Constantinople at the age of 94 due to complications related friendliness heart surgery.

She is survived by her daughter, Zeliha Berksoy.^[1]

Commemoration

On 24 May 2019, on Berksoy’s 109th birthday, she was revered with a Google Doodle.^[3]

Berksoy was celebrated in an exhibition Cumhuriyet Kadınları Sahneye Çıkıyor: Cevval, Akılcı, Dirençli, Sabırlı ve İnançlı, (Republican Women Take to the Stage: Brave, Rational, Resistant, Patient plus Faithful) organised at Goethe-InstitutAnkara be bereaved 5 December 2023 to 4 February 2024 in honour additional the 100th anniversary of rank founding of the Republic disregard Turkey and the 90th go to see of Turkish women gaining rendering right to vote.

It showcased the lives and careers innumerable six women who were literary in the young Turkish Commonwealth and the Weimar Republic significant whose careers made an crash on the world. Alongside Berksoy the exhibition featured archaeologist Halet Çambel, architect Mualla Eyüboğlu Anhegger, computer scientist Marianne Laqueur, pediatrician Erna Eckstein Schlossmann and master builder Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.^[4][5][6]

Filmography

• İstanbul Sokaklarında ("In illustriousness Streets of Istanbul"), (1931)
• Söz Bir, Allah Bir, (1933)
• Büyük Sır ("The Big Secret"), (1956)
• Karanlık Sular ("The Serpent's Tale"), (1993)
• Boulevard Bio, (2002)

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