Ближний Восток и его соседи

g 150 h Firuza Melville Kings’), were true disasters. Most likely, this was a sign of the rebellious process of Azerbaijan’s self-perceived separation from the many centuries of Persian domination. A very close reconstruction of the Leyli and Majnun of 1908 by Hajibeyov, based on Fuzuli’s story (not in the version of Nizami by Garayev), was staged in 2013 in the Bakı Marionet Teatrı (Baku Marionette Theatre) by Tarlan Gorchu and has been extremely popular ever since. Özsoy, or Feridun, the first Turkish opera for the Persian Shah For comparison, the first Turkish opera following the Classical European form, Özsoy (‘Original Lineage’ or Feridun), was composed only in 1934. It was commissioned by Mustafa Kemal to Ahmet Adnan Saygun specially for the visit of Reza Shah. The libretto was based on a key story from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh . The episode in question was borrowed from the mythological part Pl. 16. Poster of Zeynalabdin Taghiyev’s opera Leyli and Mejnun, performed in the Tagiev Theatre in Baku on 12 January 1908