Coppelia - Ankara DOB

About this event

Ankara State Opera and Ballet (Ankara Devlet Opera ve Balesi) performs Coppelia, a ballet in three acts, at the Opera Sahnesi, the historic opera house on Atatürk Bulvarı in Ulus. The performance on 12 November 2026 starts at 20:00. The company lists further performances on 14 November (13:00), 26 November (20:00) and 28 November 2026 (20:00). The ballet is set in a small town in Poland near the border of Galicia. Swanilda, the daughter of the bell founder, sees her fiancé Franz courting a mysterious girl who sits at the window of the house of old Coppelius. When Swanilda and her friends slip into his workshop, she finds that the girl is only a doll, Coppelia, and hides in the doll's place to teach Franz a lesson when he climbs in after them. In the final act the town celebrates the inauguration of its new bell, Franz and Swanilda make up, the mayor compensates Coppelius for the damage to his workshop, and the winners of the dance competition are celebrated. Tickets are sold through Biletinial, linked from the Devlet Opera ve Balesi website.

• Devlet Opera ve Balesi - Coppelia production pageChecked 2026-11-11
• Biletinial - Devlet Opera ve Balesi event calendarChecked 2026-11-11