Phantom of the Opera
‘Directed by Cecilia Bartoli’
26.12.2023. Opera de Monte Carlo, Monaco. Watching Christine, angel of music and the Phantom for the 4th time after New York & London… The point of no return… Andrew Llloyd Webber’s genius musical… Always creating goosebumps and tears…
Gioachino Rossini
‘il Barbiere di Siviglia’
Arena di Verona, July 2023. Opera buffa, comedy within the music… In the romantic athmosphere of Arena di Verona, sunset time… Verona is a place for me which I had collected bitter sweet memories in my life in the last 10 years time; going there over and over again…. One day I will maybe also tell you all about that…
Giacomo Puccini
‘Madama Butterfly’
Royal Opera House, London. September 2022. I have love this classical version of Madama Butterfly… Watched in tears… Watching opera at Royal Opera House is my treat everytime i am in London… I make a time travel in this building each time i watch a new opera… Looking forward to study and sing the beautiful aria ‘un bel di vedremo’ very soon within 2024…
Giacamo Puccini
‘Madama Butterfly’
Sydney Opera House, The stage set on the sea by the harbour of the opera house, March 2023. The post modern production of Madama Butterfly which i must say i did not really enjoy… I prefer the classical original versions of the operas with the ancient settings… Watching the opera on the harbour also was not a good experience in terms of the sound system… Nevertheless, I must admit the view was amazing behind the stage facing the sunset, moon and all the stars … having fireworks by the sea on the last scene… All was romantic …
Gioacchino Rossini
‘La Cenerentola’
Giuseppe Verdi
‘Rigoletto’
Royal Opera House, London, October 2023. One of the most sexy opera scenes i had ever watched here.. All tragedy again as Verdi loves it, he definetely fed himself out of darkness and full tragedy while he was composing… Just loved the scenes, settings and all the precious cast… collected magical moments…
Giuseppe Verdi
‘Aida’
Royal Opera House, London, May 2023. This modern production of Aida was fastinating… Crowded chorus, beautiful set up and the arias… Felt into tears with goosebumps… Watched it to times in this year in Royal Opera House.
Giuseppe Verdi
‘Don Carlos’
Royal Opera House, London, July 2023. The longest opera i think i have ever watched in my life. 4 acts… almost 4 hours… Full of tragedy.. heartache… Darkness…
Pietro Mascagni
‘Cavalleria Rusticana’
Rugero Leoncavallo
‘Pagliacci’
Royal Opera House, London, December 2023. Two different tales of tragedy around love and betray…
George F. Handel
‘Alcina’
Süreyya Operası, Istanbul, May 2023. Watching my singing teacher Kaan Buldular on the stage every time at the opera makes my heart beat faster with love, respect and admiration for his art, artistry and his beautiful rare voice type and color as a countertenor. ‘Mio bel tesoro’ was the aria that my teacher sang in this opera and while listening to that beautiful aria, as usual, i felt into tears with goosebumps.. and asked him to teach me the same aria which i became obsessive about singing… I sang it in my concert that year in 2023 with a huge happiness in my heart… I find that aria so sweet…
Antonin Dvorak
‘Rusalka’
Royal Opera House, London, February 2023. The sad love story of the water nymph … The story resembles many aspects with the story of the mermaid for me… I had cried so much while watching this fairy tale, touching opera… I just came to London for 1 night to watch Rusalka..
At that time I was studying to learn to sing the emotional aria of this opera ‘the song to the moon’ - ‘Mesicku na nebi hlubokem’. It took me like almost a year to be able to sing it properly… Giving the high notes in the right way with the correct breathing technique and the vibratos and much more… I remember crying at the middle of the lesson while my singing teacher was patiently telling me not to hit my head cause at those times when i can not do it the way i want it to be, i hit my head with my hands and make my hair a mess and start crying… Rusalka gave me one of the hardest times through singing in 2022… Also in a language like Czech, I had no idea of at all… But the music, the lyrics carried me away.. at the end when i could sing it the right way reflecting my emotions, this aria i think i will sing in every one of my concerts… The more it is a challenge for me the better it gets each time… I love these challenges that constantly enable me to improve…
Giuseppe Verdi
‘La Traviata’
Royal Opera House, London, July 2023. Violetta’s Aria, at the final act… Addio Del Passato.. Oh my god… When I listened it i could not help my tears with goosebumps again… Cried out with emotions that i could hardly hold inside my soul… So hard to explain… I had to sing this aria.. At the end of the night after the opera, i wrote my singing teacher that i need to learn Violetta’a a Addio del Passato… He sent me the scores right away that monet at midnight and the next day we started working on it… it took all my summer in 2023 to learn and give these beautiful high notes with pure vibratos… Oh this aria reflects so much fragiality and so vulnerable for me… I am looking very forward to sing it in my next coming up concert in March 2024 the first time i will sing it… After Rusalka, this was one of the other challenging arias for me which I adore singing in almost every lesson we have in the second half of 2023… I can not get enough of it…
Bittersweet,
Susan Cain
VISIT
What I Know For Sure,
Oprah Winfrey
VISIT
My Name is Barbra,
Barbra Streisand
VISIT
The Alchemist,
Paulo Coelho
VISIT
Kilometre Zero,
Maud Ankaoua
VISIT
Atlas of the heart,
Brene Brown
VISIT
The Little Prince,
Antoine De Saint Exupery
VISIT
Shrink, The Diet for the Mind,
Philippe Tahon
VISIT
Yung Pueblo, Inward, Clarity & Connection, Lighter, The Way Forward
VISIT
Australia, 2023
Spent a month in the continent and finally that was my 7th continent to finalise my visits to all continents on this planet earth… Strange place… Could not connect to earth there… There was a feeling of emptiness, hard to define…
Bali, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
The island where the Gods take their holidays…
Bein one with the universe…
The sould takes its soul… Aligning with the spirits…
Amandari, Amanusa, Amankila
Turks & Caicos Islands, Providenciales, 2017
Collection of Tranquility, Serenity and miracolous sunsets… In the resorative retreat of Amanyara.
VISIT
Africa, 2017
The only place that I did not want to return back home, felt into tears while returning back… The start of questioning the life and the context i was living that time after this trip… The tranquility, serenity, freedom… The miracle of the nature and the animals…
Cuba, 2017
Cigars, Rum, music, dance, freedom… Duality of freedom & dependence… Sadness & Happiness… Felt a bit uneasy…
Cambodia & Vietnam, 2016
Feeling of heaviness… Transferring the feelings of the spirits through time in these geographies…
Cried a lot… Felt so strange.. One of the most emotional trips of my life…
Kefalonia, Greece, 2015
The magical island where Captain Corelli’s Mandolin film was shooted.. I can never forget the color of this magical sea, the aura of this island with all its nature and extraordinary hidden places…. This island is heaven on earth…
Antarctica, 2012
Unplugged… Chording the soul in the middle of ‘emptiness’. Feels like another planet where you stop counting the time… Acceptance and total surrender to the mother nature…
Taormina, Sicily, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022
If I had not been living in Turkey, definitely Taormina would be my home.. So natural, so authentic in culture, people, nature and art… It feels like home at the very first moment i arrive there… So much to discover each time… La vita e bellissima…
Kaan Buldular
My singing teacher since 2019… Countertenor and my sweet Contrdracula… He is my most precious inspiration on this earth. He opened the doors of the 17th century of a baroque world and carried me all the way through today and still he does , he will forever… Learning from him is a privilege and magic. His patience and tolerence, his excitement and the most funny sides, his beautiful majestic voice and above all his pure soul, his naive personality opened a total new vision in my life. He is the maestro of my transendence in this life.. Listening him singing in opera and at his concerts, I can not hold my tears… Thanking him every single moment… Besides, he accepts that B flats only belong to me! So what can I possibly want more in this life…
Roger Federer
The maestro federized me through all these years i have been watching and playing tennis… He is the inspiration of finesse, grace, excellency, humanity and sportsmenship on and off the court. Cretain things that numbers can not convey the beauty he instilled in the discipline. One dream aced… another just begun.. I always keep that in mind when i think of him… Being witnessed his farewell at Laver Cup in September 2022 was once in a lifetime experience i will never forget and always remember those tears and goosebumps we all 20000 people shared at O2 Arena…
Rafael Nadal
When I think of him through all these 20 years I had been watching him, he is the symbol of pure heart who can feed his child part at all times… He never gives up… He is so strong mentally and physically.. He is the proof of experience always beats the age… Watching him falling into tears on Federer’s farewell in London Laver cup in September 2020, made me realise the fact that he would also be saying goodbye in a year time… that really makes my heart ache… He will also be missed as much as Roger…
Madonna
Every time I watch her on the stage, she awakens the hidden parts in my soul.. She is the symbol of freedom, she is the rebellious heart. She is in constant improvement, stage shows always exceeding the expectations… She is the queen… She is the most sexy one… She lives how to live this without borders limitations… She is a free spirit reflecting her deepest desires on and off the stage…
Barbra Streisand
I remember the moment that in Portofino, summer 2017.. We had just arrived Portofino after Andrea Bocelli’s Concert at Teatro di Silenzio at Tuscany with my friends… just sitting at the restaurant there in that little piazza by the sea at Portofino, I have just said ‘girls you know what, now there is one more wish i have … I really want to see Barbra Streisand alive performing.. but impossible after all these years she is not performing anywhere at all.. If only I could have seen her alive…‘ And after half an hour later she was there… Barbra with her husband and friends just passed in front of us walking and then sitting at a table at the next door restaurant. There she was… I knew I was a witch but at that moment i was a certified witch for sure… I have watched her all night alive at the next table for about 3 hours … Here’s to life… To all the joy it brings… So here’s to life to dreamers and their dreams…
Cecilia Bartoli
Colaratura mezzo soprano with her unusual timbre and voice range, she is my inspirational muse … She is has an extraordinary vision and endless passion for music and life. Never repating herself, constantly in the search of the undone and inspiring projects… She is my one and only one that i listen whenever i start studying a new piece of aria, she is there with her magical voice to lead me the way…
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich London
A place that carries you to time travel between 17th century to 19th century… I visit there often to sit under these paintings and watch the ceiling, the light games in the building… meditative place to be in the middle of all the chaotic city of London…
Victor & Albert Museum, London
A tranquil place full of inspiring exhibitions and art galleries through out the year… Always on my priority list to visit every year couple of times… You can get lost between the corridors that surprise you each time with different pieces of art work… Just can not get enough of this place…
Mona Museum, Tasmania
(The museum of Old and New art)
The only reason i went to Tasmania for .. this museum… The experience I had through out the whole day in this museum was once in a life time… The only reason to fly that distance to see this extraordinary place full of very extraordinary experimental exhibitions and pieces of art, I can say it was worth the every second… once in a life time experince…
Tate Modern, London
Each time in Tate Modern is not enough to finish all the galleries and the exhibitions on these 5 floors and every time there is more and more to see… sometimes spending the whole day and forget the time whenever I am there…
Tate Britain, London
Full of experimental exhibitions through the year… each time is a surprising journey in there…
National Gallery of Victoria, Sydney Australia
Full of serenity… beautiful art pieces… just standing in front of the timeless art and thanking to every moment…
National Gallery, London
So silent… and has so much to say this place… you can get lost in each single gallery… losing the time and the space you are in…
Saatchi Gallery, London
Colorful, extraordinary art experince in each different gallery… the energy of the building is just so pure and full of serenity… ın my priority list whenever i am in London…
National Portrait Gallery, London
In each gallery experiencing the different pieces of art work and surprising exhibitions each time… inspiring place to be…
Lightroom, London
The exhibition Moonwalkers presented by Tom Hanks was such a different journey out of this universe… I adore scientific experiences…
Musee D’orsay
Spending the whole day and still can not get enough of this place… Standing in front of the portrait of my favourite composer of all times George Bizet’s wife.. just by chance while I was singing his ‘les pecheur de perles’ aria in my head while walking the galleries in the museum there she was smiling at me… reminding me my witch sides again…
Castello Degli Schiavi, Sicily Italy
Spending couple of times here where the film Godfather was shooted.. The scene where the car is exploded and and the last scene where Al Pacino dies in his chair at this garden… Had the chance to sing ‘Parla piu piano’ with the accompaniment of a beautiful pianist friend in this house … That was once in a alife experince which i have collected in my heartpacked moments in this life…
