Seven Beauties ballet staged as part of World of Mugham festival

Baku, March 17 (AzerTAc). Seven Beauties ballet by great Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev has been staged at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre as part of the World of Mugham 3rd International Mugham Festival. Honorary artist of Estonia Vasiliy Medvedev is chief ballet master of staging. The ballet was conducted by People`s artist Javanshir Jafarov. Main characters were played by Gulaghasi Mirzayev and Kamilla Huseynova. Seven Beauties was composed by Gara Garayev in 1947/48 to mark the 800th anniversary of classical Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi. Libretto of the ballet is based on motifs of Nizami Ganjavi`s “Seven beauties” poem, written in 1197. The first staging of the ballet was held on November 7, 1952, in the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Baku. In 2008, a new staging of the ballet was held on the stage of the Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theater. Yana Temiz, a writer from Turkey, wrote a new libretto for staging.