Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi

Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi ("The Legend of Mt Ararat") is a 1971 Turkish-language opera by Çetin Işıközlü. Mount Ararat 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.^[1]

Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi
by Çetin Işıközlü
Mount Ararat
Translation	The Legend of Mt Ararat
Language	Turkish
Based on	Ağrıdağı Efsanesi by Yaşar Kemal

Recordings

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

References

1. 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"