On November 16-17, the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre will host the State Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre, named after Alisher Navoi.
In particular, on November 16, the Baku audience will watch the Khumo two-act ballet by Fergana-born honored Uzbekistan composer Anvar Ergashev.
Uzbekistan's grand theatre premiered the Khumo ballet in 2005. In 2007, the author of its music performance was awarded the title of Laureate of the State Prize of the First Degree.
Khumo is a magical bird-peri, a bird-legend of beauty, happiness, and love, the leader of the realm of bizarre birds which fly to the ground, drop their plumage and transform into the ladies. Wandering through the mountains, a skilled potter and master of minting Zagar sees this beautiful sight and falls in love with one of them, the bird girl Zuleykha. They will have to overcome many difficulties together so that love will win and they will unite. This is the cunning of the avaricious ruler of Karun Khalifa, the evil hunter Mansur, and others... But justice will triumph, happiness will come on the earth, a beautiful future city will be built, and the bird of joy will be a talisman of Well-being and Justice.
On November 17, the Uzbek artists will stage the Rigoletto opera in three acts by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The work, Verdi's sixteenth in the genre, is widely considered the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.
Photo: The State Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alisher Navoi
The leading soloists of Uzbekistan's grand theatre, including folk artists and laureates of international competitions of ballet singers and performers, will participate in the touring performances.
The troupe comes on tour to Baku with complete creative composition featuring a symphony orchestra, soloists, chorus artists, and ballet company.
The State Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre, named after Alisher Navoi, is deservedly considered the leading theatre of Uzbekistan, its national pride, and the attractive center of musical and theatrical culture. It has a glorious history, rich in beautiful traditions. This history is a robust foundation of that high culture and skill, thanks to which the opera and ballet theatre has gained worldwide fame. For nine decades, the theatre accumulated achievements that polished the range of expressive means, experience has been improved, and humanistic principles have been worked out and developed. The theatre has absorbed all the wealth of the national and world classical heritage and created unique samples of Uzbek musical and stage art.
The history of the theatre begins with the professional Concert and Ethnographic Ensemble, organized by the coryphaeus of national culture, the ardent enthusiast of theatrical art, the People's Artist of Uzbekistan Mukhiddin Kari-Yakubov in the mid-1920s.
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