Asli and Kerem
A mugham opera based on motifs from the South Caucasus poem Kerem and Aslı. It celebrates love and spiritual beauty while criticizing feudal relations and nationalist tendencies promoted by clerical circles.
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A mugham opera based on motifs from the South Caucasus poem Kerem and Aslı. It celebrates love and spiritual beauty while criticizing feudal relations and nationalist tendencies promoted by clerical circles.
A musical comedy about family and everyday life, addressing oppression within the family and Azerbaijani women’s place in society.
After the cruel Hasan khan blinds his father, the singer Rovshan takes the name Koroghlu and leads an uprising. The khan captures Koroghlu by stealing his horse, but Koroghlu escapes and returns with his rebels to free Nigar, her brother, and others condemned to execution.
Leyli and Geys fall in love, but her father refuses their marriage and promises her to Ibn Salam. Geys leaves for the desert and becomes known as Majnun; despite attempts to change her father’s mind, Leyli marries Ibn Salam. She dies in her husband’s arms while longing for Majnun, who later dies at her grave.
In Baku, Gulnaz loves student Sarvar, but her father plans to marry her to the wealthy older merchant Mashadi Ibad. Sarvar and Gulnaz resist the arrangement through a series of comic deceptions, and when Mashadi Ibad discovers his supposed bride is Sarvar, he is persuaded to marry Senem instead.
A modest woodcutter’s daughter, Khurshid Banu, wins over the formidable Shah Abbas. Because he loves her, the Shah learns carpet weaving, and the folk-legend story ends happily.
A mugham opera based on motifs from the South Caucasus poem Kerem and Aslı. It celebrates love and spiritual beauty while criticizing feudal relations and nationalist tendencies promoted by clerical circles.
A musical comedy about family and everyday life, addressing oppression within the family and Azerbaijani women’s place in society.
After the cruel Hasan khan blinds his father, the singer Rovshan takes the name Koroghlu and leads an uprising. The khan captures Koroghlu by stealing his horse, but Koroghlu escapes and returns with his rebels to free Nigar, her brother, and others condemned to execution.
Leyli and Geys fall in love, but her father refuses their marriage and promises her to Ibn Salam. Geys leaves for the desert and becomes known as Majnun; despite attempts to change her father’s mind, Leyli marries Ibn Salam. She dies in her husband’s arms while longing for Majnun, who later dies at her grave.
In Baku, Gulnaz loves student Sarvar, but her father plans to marry her to the wealthy older merchant Mashadi Ibad. Sarvar and Gulnaz resist the arrangement through a series of comic deceptions, and when Mashadi Ibad discovers his supposed bride is Sarvar, he is persuaded to marry Senem instead.
A modest woodcutter’s daughter, Khurshid Banu, wins over the formidable Shah Abbas. Because he loves her, the Shah learns carpet weaving, and the folk-legend story ends happily.
Sheikh Sanan falls in love with Khumar, a Georgian woman. His passion leads him to reject promoting Islam and become an ardent critic of religion; the opera protests religious canons that divide people of different nationalities and faiths.