İzmir Devlet Opera ve Balesi

About İzmir Devlet Opera ve Balesi

İzmir State Opera and Ballet (İZDOB) is the city's state-funded company for opera, ballet and concerts, part of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's General Directorate of State Opera and Ballet. It was founded on 21 October 1982, the third such company in Turkey after Ankara and Istanbul, and first raised its curtain with a double bill, Meddah (opera) and Çeşmebaşı (ballet). Its founding director was the opera director Necdet Aydın, who also started a touring "Gezici Opera" in the late 1960s to take opera around Anatolia. Where it performs - Necdet Aydın Sahnesi, Bornova: the main stage in the Ministry's Bornova Culture and Arts Centre (Mustafa Kemal Caddesi No:60), which began hosting performances in February 2019. The hall seats 736 over two balconies and has an orchestra pit and full backstage facilities for large-scale opera, ballet and musicals. - Elhamra Sahnesi, Konak: the company's historic home. Built as the Milli Sinema for the İzmir National Library Society in the First National Architecture style, with pointed arches, small domed towers, tiled facades and four fresco panels by the painter Naci Kalmukoğlu, it later ran as the Elhamra Cinema before being restored for the opera from 1978. It seats about 400 and is now shared with İzmir's municipal City Theatres. What's on The autumn 2026 programme, for example, included the opera IV. Murat and Mozart's Requiem at Bornova and the concert Antik Aryalar at Elhamra. Tickets are sold through the company's official programme page, which links to Biletinial; the box office number is +90 232 489 04 75. Always check the hall named on your ticket, as the address shown here is the administrative office in the Bornova complex.