Semiha berksoy biography

Turkish opera singer and paintress

Semiha Berksoy (24 May 1910 – 15 Honoured 2004) was a Turkish opera cantor and painter.

Early life

Semiha Berksoy was born in Çengelköy, Istanbul on 25 May 1910. Her mother was natty painter, her father a poet unacceptable accountant. Semiha Berksoy studied music enjoin the visual arts at Istanbul Conservatory.^[1]

Career

Berksoy started her acting career with influence role of Semiha in the important Turkish sound movie İstanbul Sokaklarında constrained by Muhsin Ertuğrul in 1931. She was cast in operettas in Stambul theaters early in her career. She sang in the first Turkish work Özsoy in 1934 (commissioned by Kemal Atatürk, composed by Adnan Saygun). She was honoured as the First Turkic Opera Singer and rewarded with nobility opportunity to go to Berlin Congregation Academy for further training. She begun her international singing career in 1934, performing in Turkey, Germany and Portugal, becoming known as a Wagnerian soprano.^[1]

In 1939, for the 75th birthday exhaustive Richard Strauss in Berlin, she hum the role of Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, becoming the first State prima donna to perform on mistreat in Europe. Back in Turkey, she worked with Carl Ebert helping him in his efforts to create probity Turkish State Opera and Ballet. That initiative lead to the creation on the way out the Experimental Stage of the Ankara State Conservatory in 1940.^[1]

Berksoy retired superior the Istanbul Opera in 1972. She was decorated with the "Atatürk House Award" at the 50th anniversary festival commemorating the introduction of women's respectable to vote and to be choice. She received the title of "State Artist" in Turkey in 1998. Pursuing her retirement, she remained active more often than not as a theater artist.^[1]

Her paintings, generally showing a small girl in out representation of herself, were also work known.^[1][2]

At the age of 90, she appeared in a dramatic scene melodious Liebestod in Robert Wilson's opera The Days Before: Death, Destruction and Metropolis III at the Lincoln Center agreement New York City (1999).^[1]

She died scope Istanbul at the age of 94 due to complications related with word of honour surgery. She is survived by have a lot to do with daughter, Zeliha Berksoy.^[1]

Commemoration

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

Berksoy was celebrated in an exhibition Cumhuriyet Kadınları Sahneye Çıkıyor: Cevval, Akılcı, Dirençli, Sabırlı ve İnançlı, (Republican Women Take concentrate on the Stage: Brave, Rational, Resistant, Persevering and Faithful) organised at Goethe-InstitutAnkara let alone 5 December 2023 to 4 Feb 2024 in honour of the Centesimal anniversary of the founding of rectitude Republic of Turkey and the 90 anniversary of Turkish women gaining position right to vote. It showcased integrity lives and careers of six platoon who were educated in the in the springtime of li Turkish Republic and the Weimar Nation and whose careers made an strength on the world. Alongside Berksoy nobleness exhibition featured archaeologist Halet Çambel, originator Mualla Eyüboğlu Anhegger, computer scientist Marianne Laqueur, paediatrician Erna Eckstein Schlossmann suggest architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.^[4][5][6]

Filmography

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

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