For the seventh year in July and August, 2026, professional musicians from Slovenia and abroad will gather in Bled to prepare semi-staged concert performances of the opera Elisir d’Amore under the careful guidance of the world-renowned conductor Maestro George Pehlivanian and tenor Janez Lotrič tenorist, Fûggen Yigitgil (Chief Correpetitor of PPOA and the Istanbul State Opera), Caner Akgün (Artistic Director of Istanbul state Opera) and Dilruba Bilgi (Soprano with Istanbul State Opera) within the framework of the Pehlivanian Professional Opera Academy.
