News
18 December 2023
The exhibition of photographs and marionettes entitled DIALOGUE was launched on 18.12.2023 at Baku Photography House. Displayed exhibits include marionettes created in late 1980s by famous Georgian puppet-maker Bachana Khalvashi for his shows of “Misanthrope” and “Book of Kings”. Baku Marionette Theatre participates in the exhibition with its stage decoration sets and four marionettes used in the show of “Leyli and Majnun”. The exhibition is a part of the events devoted to the 35th anniversary of Baku Marionette Theatre.
28 October 2023
Baku Marionette Theatre is proud of being involved with promotion of the cultural heritage by great Uzeyir Hajibeyli. A group of our team members has visited his home-museum, and it was one more expression of our deep respect and love to this genius Azerbaijani playwright and composer, conductor and publicist, recognized as the father of Azerbaijani composed classical music and opera.
23 October 2023
The international conference "Livable and Sustainable Heritage Cities" worked on 10-13 October being organized by the State Historical-Architectural Reserve "Icherisheher" and the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS). The event’s panel session entitled as "Sustainable Heritage of Cities/monuments: revival of Cultural Environment through Effective Management and Conservation of Monuments" was held at the Baku Marionette Theatre. For the Theatre’s participation in this great event, the Board of Icherisheher awarded our team with their special gratitude certificate.
11 September 2023
The second half of September is the time when all over our country they traditionally celebrate the birthday of famous Uzeyir Hajibeyli (1885-1948) – great composer and dramatist, conductor and musicologist, publicist and pedagogue, founder of the modern professional music art of Azerbaijan. Recently, the head of our theatre Tarlan Gorchu and his troupe assist Heyran Gorchu had visited the city of Shusha – the legendary land where little Uzeyir-bey grew up and acquired his first creative sparks that raised him to the peak of artistic genius. During the visit, they succeeded to choose location good for performing of the Baku Marionette Theatre’s show of “Arshin mal alan” by Uzeyir Hajibeyli there in Shusha – the hometown of the great master, in 2024.
4 September 2023
A group of top officers of the Administration of the State Historical and Architectural Reserve “Icherisheher” and its subdivisions had visited Shusha on September 2-3. The guests, headed by the mayor of “Icherisheher” Shahin Seyidzadeh, met with the management and staff of the Department of the State Reserve of the city of Shusha. The colleagues exchanged their professional visions and discussed the possibilities of cooperation.
The head of Baku Marionette Theatre Tarlan Gorchu and his troupe assist Heyran Gorchu took part in that trip to Shusha. Here in the native land of Uzeyir Hajibeyli, the great author of the legendary musical of “Arshin Mal Alan”, they succeeded to choose and get preliminary agreement with the local administration about the space supposed for performing of the named above show staged by Baku Marionette Theatre.
