Mavi Boncuk | Trabzon Opera [1]Binası / Sümer Sineması[2]
The building, which was built with the characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement, was single-storey from the back and two-story from the front. The building, which was built in the shape of a horseshoe, had 13 lodges, a large hall at the entrance, and a balcony behind the upper lodges.
The building was financed by the Greeks in 1912 (according to some sources 1908) and was built in the area east of Trabzon Meydan Park. According to journalist Refik Ahmet Sevengil, the building was commissioned by a French company and left to the municipality. Although it is claimed that the building was not built as an opera house, it is known that opera performances were given in the building.[6] At the opera house, which was opened as a cinema by the Azerbaijani people after the end of the First World War, Russian artists gave a performance with pieces from the Carmen opera in February 1922. Sevengil claimed that Atatürk visited the building twice. Allegedly, Atatürk watched the play Dört Cihar with his wife Latife Hanım on his first visit to Trabzon in 1924, and the play Mon Bey, on his second visit in 1930, from box number 6.
The
building, which was also used as a theater and music hall until 1925, was
completely converted into a movie theater in the same year and was named Turan
Cinema. In 1939 and 1957, the demolition proposal of the building was discussed
in the city council, but it was not accepted in both times. The opera house,
which was named Yıldız Cinema and Sümer Cinema after Turan Cinema, was
demolished by 30 workers with sledgehammers in 14 days during the road widening
works in 1958. Today, the area where the Opera House is located is an empty
land.
[1] Trabzon kitap arşiv dünyasının önemli isimlerinden Aslan Pulathaneli rahmetli(1919-1996), ‘Opera binası’ olduğu iddiası ileri sürülen bina için, şunları yazıyordu: “Eski adıyla Meydan-ı Şarki’de, Millet Bahçesi’nin (Meydan Parkı) doğusundaki sinemanın başlangıçtaki adı Turan Sineması’dır. Refik Ahmet (Sevengül) tarafından yazılan ve 1934 yılında Kanaat Kütüphanesi tarafından basılan, ‘Yakınçağlarda Türk Tiyatrosu’ adlı iki ciltlik kitabın, ‘Cumhuriyetin ilk On Yılında’ adlı ikinci cildinin 90. Sayfasında, ‘Trabzon’da 1912 senesinde belediye arsası üzerinde hususi bir şirket(Fransız?) tarafından yaptırılan ve sonra belediyeye terk edilen, içinde temsil de verilebilen bir sinema binası vardır’ diye bir açıklama yer almaktadır(s.424)…1925 yılında belediye tarafından kiraya çıkarılan Turan Sineması…Hacıharunzadeler tarafından kiralanır. Hacıharunzadeler ellerindeki Yıldız Sineması’nı (-Kunduracılarda, Trabzon Düğün Salonu olarak kullanılan bina) Turan Sineması’na taşırlar…Yıldız Sineması adını verirler…30 Ağustos 1931’de Kemal Saka, üç ortağıyla sinemayı belediyeden kiralar...Bu arada sinemanın adı Şehir Sineması olarak değiştirilir...1932’de…Alemderzade Fazıl tarafından kiralanan sinema, Majik Sineması adını alır(s.425)…16 Eylül 1933’te Harunlar tarafından…kiralanan sinema yeniden Yıldız adını alır…19 Ocak 1940 tarihinde Haydar Üçüncü-Hasip Kalaycı ortaklığıyla kiralanan sinema Sümer Sineması adını alır..(s.426)” diyordu ki(2), yapılan bu açıklama, “Opera binası” olduğu iddia edilen binanın; “Opera binası olarak kurulmadığı” gerçeği oluyor.
Ahmet Özer de “Turan Sineması’ndan Meydan’da Asılan Adama” başlıklı yazısında; Türk Tiyatrosu araştırmalarıyla tanınan Ahmet Sevengil’in(d.1903-ö.1970); “Yakın Çağlarda Türk Tiyatrosu” adlı iki ciltlik yapıtın ikinci cildinin, ‘Anadolu’da Tiyatro’ başlıklı bölümünün 90. sayfasından yaptığı alıntısında, Arslan Pulathaneli açıklamasının benzerini yapıyor; “Trabzon’da Opera binası vardı” demiyor, “içinde temsil de verilebilen bir sinema binası vardır” diyordu...
http://www.ahmetmusaoglu.org/makaleler/606/Trabzon---da-Opera-Binasi-Vardi-YALANI.html
Aslan Pulathaneli (1919-1996), one of the important names in the world of Trabzon book archives, wrote the following about the building alleged to be the 'Opera building': Its name is Turan Cinema. On page 90 of the second volume of the two-volume book, 'Turkish Theater in the Modern Ages', written by Refik Ahmet (Sevengül) and published by the Kanaat Library in 1934, 'In the First Decade of the Republic', a private company was established on the municipal land in 1912 in Trabzon. There is a cinema building that was built by the (French?) and then abandoned to the municipality, where representation can also be given' (p.424)…The Turan Cinema, which was rented out by the municipality in 1925…it is rented by the Hacıharunzades. Hacıharunzades move their Yıldız Cinema (the building used as Trabzon Wedding Hall in Shoemakers) to Turan Cinema… They call it Yıldız Cinema… On August 30, 1931, Kemal Saka rents the cinema from the municipality with his three partners… By the way, the name of the cinema is Şehir Cinema. in 1932...the cinema rented by Alemderzade Fazıl is named Majik Cinema(p.425)...the cinema rented by Haruns on 16 September 1933...is named Yıldız again...on January 19, 1940, with the partnership of Haydar Third-Hasip Kalaycı. the rented cinema is called Sümer Cinema. The fact that it was “not built as an opera house” happens.
[2] Pilosyan, an Armenian citizen living in Trabzon during the imperial years, established a company in the city under the name of Cinematograph and applied to the authorities to build a cinema building. After this application, the search for land for the cinema building started. As a result, the National Garden and the municipality building in the west, the road in the east, the shop and the road belonging to the Trabzon Municipality in the south, and the building in the north were given to Pilosyan. There was also a transit warehouse belonging to the Rusumat Trust on the land. Thereupon, the warehouse on the land was demolished by the decision of the Council of State in January 1907, and it was deemed appropriate to build a cinema building here in order to generate income for the municipality. A contract has been signed by the municipality on the condition that this land be allocated to Bedros Pilosyan and Arsen Mine Esyan for a limited period of 10 years and left to the municipality at the end of this period. The cinema building was completed on time as per the contract and Trabzon Municipality collected rent from this cinema for 2 years. However, in the ongoing process, when developments such as the First World War, the Armenian Deportation and the Russian occupation took place, the cinema building changed hands. The building was registered to the Committee of Union and Progress during the first years of Governor Cemal Azmi Bey's office. The situation of the cinema building after the occupation came to the agenda and the building in question was reactivated under the name of Turan Cinema. Journalist Cevdet Alap from Trabzon gave the following information about the construction of the building, which was operating under the name of Sümer Cinema for a while: After that cinema, an Armenian had the building of the current Sümer Cinema building built in 328-329 years, as a Russian type, by bringing masters from Batumi. This Armenian made a construction contract for either 5 or 8 years in order to have the building built, and in two years he paid the construction cost and also made a profit. After the liberation in 1918, various representations were given on the cinema stage. While these performances were sometimes given by the people of Trabzon, they were often staged by companies from Istanbul. Until 1940, nearly 900 companies had come to represent them on the cinema stage. In the first years of the Republic, Harunzadeler bought this building and started to operate it under the name Yıldız Cinema. Meanwhile, this building, which operates under the name of Turan Cinema, was transferred to Trabzon Municipality for a while. As Cevdet Alap stated, the building in question was later renamed Yıldız Cinema and was unfortunately demolished in 1958 with a decision taken by the Trabzon Municipality.
Source
https://www.takagazete.com.tr/trabzonda-opera-binasi-var-miydi-makale,158854.html
