News
8 July 2019
Delegates of the 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee visited Baku Marionette Theatre on 8 July 2019. The guests have been welcomed here by Mr Asgar Alakbarov, Head of the Icherisheher Administration. The ‘Leyli and Majnun’ opera was performed. The crew was delighted to present the final show of the theatrical season for this international audience - the world’s high-level culture experts. New theatrical season will start in late October. But no shows during the upcoming few months doesn’t mean that the theatre is closed. The crew is carefully preparing to participate in the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières, France, in September 2019. Then, directly from the World Festival in France we take our show to Zagreb, Croatia. We will do our best to publish in our web-page the reports from this our European performing tour.
4 April 2019
On April 4, 2019 the presentation of the book “When I’m no longer here”, created by the children of the project of YARADAN creative union, took place at Baku Marionette Theatre. “Children-Creators” built a peculiar dialogue with the adult audience and conveyed their feelings and emotions through the dance, performance and interaction with the audience. The frank questions of the children, the faith and freedom that they breathed gave the whole evening an amazing heart-touching atmosphere.
9 December 2018
Baku Marionette Theatre held the event devoted to 110th anniversary of the opera ‘Leyli & Majnun’. During an open discurs on the theatrical heritage of Uzeyir Hajibeyli, archive photographs of the great master’s numerous operas and musicals from various years were screened. Among the event participants there were theatre critic Aydin Taliblyh, director of the Azerbaijan State Theatre Museum Sevinj Mikayilova, filmdirector Adil Alakbarov, musicologist Heyran Gorchu, director, scenographer and puppeteer Olga Kirillova (Moscow), activists form the Contemporary Art Space YARAT and others.
The show of ‘Arshin Mal Alan’ was performed for the event participants. There were many foreigners among our guests, and thus the show storyteller Kamala Israfilova – an actress, graduated from The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (New-York) – provided her narration in English.
2 November 2018
On November 2, the show of ‘Arshin Mal Alan’ was performed at the Baku Marionette Theatre by the request of the Ministry of Taxes, i.e. just for the group of the mentioned Ministry officers. As it always had happened before, at this event the classical Azerbaijani musical again filled the audience with its positive atmosphere.
10 October 2018
On October 10-12, 2018, in Baku, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) holds a conference ‘Decorative Arts and Interiors’. The conference participants visited Baku Marionette Theatre. After viewing the show of ‘Arshin Mal Alan’ the ICOM members enjoyed welcoming reception arranged for them at the theatre terrace.
