EUROPEAN AZERBAIJAN SOCIETY (TEAS) CONTRIBUTES TO STAGING WORLD PREMIERE LAYLA AND MAJNUN
Baku, August 26 (AZERTAC). The European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS) contributed to staging the world premiere Layla and Majnun in Ruhrtriennale Music and Arts Festival, which takes place in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan region of Germany and continues for nearly two months.
The famous poet and playwright Albert Ostermaier has written a play for the Ruhrtriennale based on Nizami`s epic, telling the story of two lovers in an intensely emotional and radical manner and revealing the timelessness and relevance of their epos.
For the Palestinian-Israeli composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi Layla and Majnun is part of his cultural heritage. He lives and works in Germany and therefore encounters the myths of his homeland by looking from a distance - with the mass of sounds, complex gestures and radical force of his musical language. Director of the play is Willy Decker.
Mrs. Ute Schafer, Minister for Families, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports for North Rhine-Westphalia and Mrs. Hannelore Kraft, Minister-President for North Rhine-Westphalia were among the audience.
Layla and Majnun, the most famous lovers in Islamic culture, is a love story of the most deeply spiritual kind. The Persian poet Nizami put it in writing in 1188 and thereby created an epic of love with timeless appeal. Layla and Majnun will be staged seven more times during the festival. The more information placed in www.ruhrtriennale.de.
The premiere was followed by a reception of the distinguished guests, who expressed their gratitude to TEAS for its vast support of the event. Chairman of TEAS Taleh Heydarov said the first opera in the East was written in Azerbaijan.
