Turkish State Opera and Ballet which was subsequently transformed into Ankara State Conservatory. The two lecturers were offered permanent posts at the conservatory, an offer which Paul Hindemith was not able to accept. Nevertheless, he kept visiting Ankara and inspecting the activities at the music school. Carl Ebert stayed in Ankara as the director of the conservatory theatre school and opera studio for the following nine years. On May 16, 1940, the State Conservatory was firmly established under law, comprising music, opera, ballet, and theatre schools. The first performance staged by the students of the conservatory was Mozart's one-act comic opera Bastien und Bastienne, performed
Lisuart und Dariolette knight Lisuart to find her lost daughter Dariolette. In the course of his mission, Lisuart has to answer the riddle: "What gives women the most pleasure?" Lisuart und Dariolette Lisuart und Dariolette, oder Die Frage und die Antwort ("Lisuart and Dariolette, or The Question and the Answer") is a 'romantisch-comische Oper' by the German composer Johann Adam Hiller. The libretto was by Daniel Schiebeler based on "La fée Urgèle ou Ce qui plaît aux dames" by Charles Simon Favart, itself derived from The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. The opera was first performed in a two-act version at