An analysis on opera booklets of Turkey's operas and İzmir State Opera and Ballet

The opera, the roots of which extend way back to ancient Greece, is an art, at very basics, formed by integrated combination of theatre and music. At present, in pursuit of accordance with universally esteemed examples, while composing the contents of the anticipated opera program booklets, these two forms of art, which the opera inherits, are utulized. In the west, the first opera program booklets, in the 17th century, while were the librettoes of the operas, as an outcome of the bourgeoisie culture domination overtaking in social structures in the18th century, there has been conversion into a different nature of form and content in opera program booklets as well. Whereas, by acquisition of 20th century, opera program booklet publication preserving a consistant history of development has provided the meaningful source to the audiences to help comprehension of the art of opera. The commencement of the the tradition of opera booklet publication of Turkey rests first on the booklets prepared on plays performed by the Ankara Academy of Music and this implementation has sustained following the foundation of the Ankara State Opera and Balet. In Turkey, the process of publication of opera program booklets in the Western sense regarding form and content, has been realized by the initiation of İzmir State Opera and Balet. İzmir State Opera and Balet program publication understanding does not limit itself only to the description of the subject of the work of art and general information with respect to that work but approaches to the aesthetics and historical aspects and problematics of that work from a theoretical perspective and contemporary visual angle. At final stage, at our day, the program booklets construct their meaning upon the past, vast and interdisciplinary meaning an opera work of art possesses