Arif'in_Hilesi

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Arif'in Hilesi

Opera by Tigran Chukhajian

Arif'in Hilesi (Arif's Trick) is an 1874 Turkish-language opera by the Armenian composer Tigran Chukhajian (Dikran Çuhaciyan in Turkish).[1] It is based on Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector.[2] Although the first Turkish-language opera is often regarded as the same composer's Leblebici Horhor (Horhor the Chickpea Seller) of 1875, since this latter opera became wildly popular, Arif'in Hilesi is earlier. It was performed in Gedikpaşa Theatre by Çuhaciyan's Operet Kumpanyası.[3]

Tigran Chukhajian

References

  1. [1]
    Çağdaş Türk bestecileri: - Page 20 Evin İlyasoğlu - 1998 "operettas and operas from 1868 onwards: Arifin Hilesi (Arif 's Trick) by Dikran Çuhaciyan and Pembe Kız (Pink Girl) and Çengi (The Gipsy Performer) ... The first Turkish opera is the Leblebici Horhor by Çuhaciyan was met with great acclaim"
  2. [2]
    Sarkisyan 2001.
  3. [3]
    Karadagli, Ozgecan (2017). From Empire to Republic: Western Art Music, Nationalism, and the Merging Mediation of Saygun's Op.26 Yunus Emre Oratorio. University of Alberta. p. 51. doi:10.7939/R3FQ9QK4S.

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