2024-10-07 20:45:14
Astrakhan with a performance “Капитанская дочка””/>
Azerbaijan State Academic Russian Drama Theater took part in III International Festival-Forum “Theatrical Delta”which takes place in Astrakhan and received a diploma as a participant in the event, which is a powerful impetus for the development of dialogue between cultures, shaping the line of development of interethnic relations.
As Day.Az reports with reference to AZERTAC, Azerbaijani artists presented the play “The Captain’s Daughter” staged by a St. Petersburg director on the stage of the Astrakhan Drama Theater Igor Konyaev. The production was carried out within the framework of the international project “St. Petersburg Theater Workshops” jointly by the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, the Association of Workers of Russian Theaters Abroad and the Theater-Festival “Baltic House”. The premiere of the play in Baku took place in June 2023. In April 2024, the play was shown at the XXVI International Festival of Russian Theaters “Meetings in Russia” in St. Petersburg, and in May 2024 it was presented as part of the oldest theater festival “Melikhovo Spring” at the Chekhov Estate Museum.
The great interest in Pushkin’s work as interpreted by Azerbaijani actors was confirmed by the lack of empty seats in the auditorium of the Astrakhan Drama Theater and the prolonged standing ovation that the audience gave the artists from Azerbaijan at the end of the performance.
Also, members of the team of the Azerbaijan State Academic Russian Drama Theater, who arrived in Astrakhan to participate in the Third International Theater Festival “Delta”, laid flowers at the monument to national leader Heydar Aliyev. The laying ceremony was attended by: theater actors – participants in the play “The Captain’s Daughter”, director of the theater – Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, winner of the Russian government award “Pushkin Medal” Adalet Hajiyev and chairman of the Azerbaijani diaspora Vahid Rahimov.
The name of the festival “Theatrical Delta” was born from the variety of theatrical forms and genres, which, like the beds of a large river in the delta, diverge into branches and separate streams, and as a result, they all flow into the common sea of theater as an art form. The general concept of the festival is an immersion into the unique world of Russian drama. The festival is organized with the support of the government of the Astrakhan region and the regional Ministry of Culture as part of the national project “Culture”.