2024-04-30 09:30:26
A stunning premiere of Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” in a new production and in a modern genre took place at the opening of the first Fidan Hajiyeva International Opera Festival on the stage of the Opera Studio at the Baku Music Academy named after Uzeyir Hajibeyli, Day.Az reports.
It is gratifying to note that the love for classical art in Azerbaijan has set a kind of record – all tickets for the week-long performances of the festival were sold out! The audience that evening was treated to a great celebration of operatic art, which was reflected in the impressions of the audience, who repeatedly gave the artists applause throughout the performance. In conclusion, the entire hall greeted the creative team with a standing ovation and bouquets of flowers.
The main role of Carmen was performed by the organizer herself, People’s Artist Fidan Gadzhieva, for whom this image has become an opera brand for many years, but this time she appeared before the audience from a completely new side. The director of the performance, Elvin Mirzoev, preserving the music and libretto of the classical work, presented the audience with a modern view of the 19th century opera, without temporal attachment. Through the prism of the plot and dynamic acting, stage costumes and scenery, the relationship between the characters and the accents of the work are positioned differently. Freedom of choice and decision-making, the true value of love, comes to the fore. In the performance, even the crowd scenes, including the children’s choir of the Fidan Gadzhieva Music School, were not static, but alive, and each artist felt like the main character of the action taking place. Bright performance by People’s Artist Gulnaz Ismailova (Frasquita), Honored Artists Farid Aliyev (Don Jose), Inara Babayeva (Mikaela), Anton Verstandt (Escamillo), Aliakhmed Ibragimov (Remendado), soloists Igor Yadrov (Zuniga), Mahir Tagizade (Morales), Nina Makarova (Mercedes) and Efima Zavalny (Dankairo), whose height exceeds two meters, became a real pearl necklace of the premiere. It should be noted that about 150 famous and young artists took part in the performance. Moreover, the orchestra of the State Opera and Ballet Theater performed under the direction of Cornelia von Kerssenbrock, specially invited from Germany, the artistic director and chief conductor of the Bavarian Gutt-Imling Opera Festival.
Thus, the premiere was a great success!
The first Fidan Hajiyeva International Opera Festival, organized by the People’s Artist Fidan Hajiyeva’s Vocal Music School with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan and the State Opera and Ballet Theater runs from April 27 to May 3. Over the course of seven days, works by Azerbaijani classics and world authors will be presented at various concert venues in Baku and Ganja.
Information support – Trend.Az, Day.Az, Milli.Az, Azernews.Az, Turkic.World
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