ARMENIAN OPERA BALLET TO PERFORM IN ISTANBUL
Armenpress
ISTANBUL, MAY 20, ARMENPRESS: The Istanbul-based Levant Rotary Club
has invited the Yerevan Opera and Ballet Theater to stage in Turkish
biggest city Aram Khachaturian’s ballet ‘Gayane’. Barkin Altinok, the
Levant Rotary Club chairman, told Anadolu news agency he hopes that
cultural exchange would take off the chill from strained relations
between the two neighbor nations. He said the 140-member company will
perform on June 13 and 14 on the stage of Istanbul Ataturk Cultural
Center. The performances will coincide with the 175-th anniversary
of establishment of Armenian Bezjian school in Istanbul.
He said Armenians accepted the invitation with joy. “We want to
demonstrate that Turks are not opposed to Armenians. What happened in
1915 is in the past. The two nations have to develop bilateral contacts
looking forward but not back,” he was quoted by Anadolu as saying.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress