 The first performance staged by the students of the conservatory was Mozart's one-act comic opera "Bastien und Bastienne", performed with Turkish text in the accompaniment of the Turkish Presidential Symphony Orchestra.In 1940, the second act of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" was performed in Turkish by the staff of the conservatory opera studio, followed in 1941 by "Tosca".The conversion of the existing Sergievi (Exhibition House) building in Ankara into an opera house was started in 1947 and the building started serving as the Ankara Opera House on April 2, 1948, with the performance of pieces composed by the "Turkish Five" and the premiere of Ahmet Adnan Saygun's "Kerem".