2024-02-12 09:00:24
At the age of 93, the People’s Artist of Azerbaijan, outstanding ballerina and choreographer Rafiga Akhundova died after a long illness, Day.Az reports.
The farewell ceremony will take place at 12.00 in Teze Pir. Burial will take place in the second Alley of Honor.
Rafiga Akhundova was born on August 7, 1931 in Baku. After graduating from the Baku Choreographic School, where her teacher was the legendary Gamar Almaszade. In 1951-1952 she took courses at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. In 1952 she began working at the State Opera and Ballet Theater. Among her roles are “Seven Beauties” by Gar Garayev, “The Maiden Tower” by Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, “The Sleeping Beauty” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, “Walpurgis Night” by Charles Gounod, “Gulshan” by Soltan Hajibekov, “The Legend of Love” by Arif Melikov, “Bakhchisarai Fountain” ” Boris Asafiev, “Giselle” by Adolphe Anan and others. Together with her husband, the famous choreographer and choreographer, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan Magsud Mamedov, she staged the ballets “Caspian Ballad”, “Shadows of Gobustan”, “Kaleidoscope”, “Path of Thunder”, “Seven Beauties” “, “Azerbaijani Suite”, “Yalli”, “Mugham”, “Babek”, “Nutcracker”. Since 1971 she has been a choreographer, and since 1990 – the main choreographer of the theater. Over the years, she worked as a choreographer and teacher in Algeria, Sweden, Egypt, Belgium, Russia and Turkey, where she staged ballets of Azerbaijani classics.
rest in peace
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