İki Ruh Tek Evren - Ankara DOB

About this event

İki Ruh Tek Evren (Two Souls, One Universe) is a song recital by the Ankara State Opera and Ballet (Ankara DOB) devoted to Gustav Mahler's settings of poems by Friedrich Rückert. It takes place on Friday 4 December 2026 at 20:00 in the Türk Ocağı Salonu of the Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museum (Ankara Resim ve Heykel Müzesi). The programme brings together two song cycles, the Rückert Lieder and the Kindertotenlieder. According to the State Opera and Ballet, the Rückert Lieder give voice to love, nature, peace and inner searching drawn from the small moments of everyday life, while the Kindertotenlieder tell of the grief of a father who has lost his children and his struggle to go on living with that pain. Together the two cycles set the light of life against the darkness of loss. The company presents the evening as a meeting of the worlds of Mahler and Rückert, two artists who lived at different times but went through similar losses, interpreted by two performers: mezzo-soprano Ezgi Karakaya and pianist Tolga Atalay Ün. The Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museum stands on Türk Ocağı Caddesi in the Opera quarter of Altındağ. Practical notes: this is a single performance, and tickets are sold through Biletinial.

• Devlet Opera ve Balesi - production pageChecked 2026-11-11