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By Laman Sadigova
The conductor of the Azerbaijani State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, international competitions laureate Eyyub Guliyev will perform in Minsk.
Performances will take place in accordance with a signed memorandum on mutual cooperation between the Opera and Ballet Theatres of Azerbaijan and Belarus.
Guliyev will conduct the Tchaikovsky opera, "Lolanta," which will be presented on the stage of the National Academic Bolshoi Theatre in Belarus on October 24.
The daughter of a King, the beautiful and blind Lolanta live with her girlfriends and servants in a luxurious garden. Despite the love and attention of her girlfriends and other citizens, she feels that something is missing in her life.
Princess Lolanta has been blind from birth, but no one has ever told her about it. Her attendants bring flowers and sing to her. However, she declares her sadness and a vague sense that she is missing something important that other people can experience.
She was betrothed to the Duke of Burgundy, Robert, who also knows nothing about the tragedy of his bride. A doctor tells the king that Lolanta can regain her vision if she knows about her blindness. She needs to know the truth but who will tell her?