''Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi'' ("The Legend of Mt Ararat") is a 1971 Turkish-language opera by Çetin Işıközlü.

Mount Ararat Mount Ararat, also known as Masis or Mount Ağrı, is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in Eastern Turkey, easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest p ...

is Mount Ağrı, Ağrı Dağı, in Turkish ( :wikt:ağrı can also mean "pain", "affliction"). The plot is based on the 1970 epic novel of the same name, ''Ağrıdağı Efsanesi'', by

Yaşar Kemal Yaşar Kemal (; born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candid ...

.Evin İlyasoğlu '' 71 Turkish composers''- Page 170 - 2007 Operas Op.4 Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi / The Legend of Ararat (Yaşar Kemal'in romanı üstüne/after the novel of Yaşar Kemal), 1971"

Recordings

*''Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi'' Ankara State Opera & Ballet Orchestra, Erol Erdinc

References

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