Leyli va Majnun

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Opera dates
Title: Leyli va Majnun
Original title: لیلی و مجنون
Leyli və Məcnun
Shape: Opera
Original language: Azerbaijani
Music: Üzeyir Hacibəyov
Libretto : Üzeyir Hacıbəyov ,
Ceyhun Hacıbəyov
Premiere: January 25, 1908
Place of premiere: Baku
people
  • Majnun: tenor
  • Majnun's father: tenor
  • Majnun's mother: soprano
  • Leyli: soprano
  • Leyli's father: baritone
  • Leyli's mother: mezzo-soprano
  • Ibn Salam: tenor
  • Nofel: baritone
  • Seyd: Tenor
  • Two arabs: tenors

Leyli va Majnun - Azerbaijani Leyli və Məcnun (لیلی و مجنون), ie “Leyli and Majnun” - is the name of the first Azerbaijani opera . The work of uzeyir hajibeyov was composed in 1907 and is therefore also the first opera of the Islamic world and the Middle East . It premiered on January 25, 1908 at the Baku Haji-Zeynalabdin-Tagiyev Theater and is based on Fuzuli's version of the love story Leila and Majnun, which is popular throughout the Middle East, Central and South Asia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mattew O'Brien: Uzeir Hajibeyov and his role in the developement of musical life in Azerbaijan , ed. by Neil Edmunds, Routledge 2004, ISBN 0-415-30219-6 , p. 211.
  2. ^ Charles van der Leeuw: Azerbaijan: A Quest for Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 0-312-21903-2 , p. 102.
  3. ^ A b Meline Toumani: For the Love of Layla. In: The New York Times . February 27, 2009, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , Sector for External Relations and Cooperation (Ed.): Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO is associated in 2008-2009 . Paris 2008, 100th anniversary of the first opera in the East: "Leyli and Majnun" (1908), p. 28–29 (English, French, Spanish, unesco.org [PDF; 2.8 MB ; accessed on November 22, 2017]).

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