Musical Theater to join Turkish Dede Korkut Int’l Festival

By Azernews

By Laman Ismayilova

Azerbaijan’s State Musical Theater has been invited to the 23th Bayburt Dede Korkut International Culture and Art Festival, to be held in Turkey on July 14-16.

The theater's ballet troupe will participate in the festival for the second time, Trend Life reported.

 The "International Culture and Art Festival" organized annually in June and July welcomes famous artists from all over the world.

The Festival was founded in 1995 and is annually held with the organization of the Municipality of Bayburt.

The cultural event features exhibitions, workshops, meetings with famous playwrights, poets as well conferences, poetry parties. 

Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy is one of the leading musical theatres of Azerbaijan.

The premiere of ‘Husband and Wife’, a musical comedy written by Uzeyir Hajibeyov in 1909, was held on May 24, 1910 in the building of the Nikitin brothers’ circus, in Baku. This production laid the foundation of Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy. In 1939, the first Azerbaijani and Soviet musical comedies such as ‘Bride for 5 manats’ (S.Rustamov), ‘Husband and Wife’ ,’The married bachelor’, (later Whose wedding?) (A.Mashadibeyov) and Roza (S.Hajibeyov) were staged.