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FULL JALIL (Zhiganov) Yoshkar-Ola 2025 Ahmed Aghadi, Gulnora Gatina, Aidar Nurgayanov
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: JALIL
- Composer: Zhiganov Nazib
- Libretto: Akhmed Fayzi Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Mari Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Erik Sapayev, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
- Recorded: 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Ahmed Aghadi, Gulnora Gatina, Aidar Nurgayanov, Yuri Ivshin , Arthur Islamov, ALEXANDRA SAULSKAYA-SHULYATYEVA, IREK FATTAKHOV
- Conductor: Renat Salavatov
- Orchestra:
- Chorus Master: Nuriya Dzhuraeva
- Stage Director: Mikhail Pandzhavidze
- Stage Designer: Igor Grinevich
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Sergey Shevchenko
Information about the Recording
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Nazib Zhiganov’s opera, written to a libretto by Akhmed Fayzi, is a deeply emotional work dedicated to the life and work of Musa Jalil, an outstanding Tatar poet who became a symbol of courage and fortitude during the Great Patriotic War. The composer recreates Jalil’s heroic fate and feat, accomplished for the sake of the Soviet people’s victory in the Great Patriotic War, and his image as a poet-hero in a multifaceted, powerful, and compelling manner.
Mikhail Pandzhavidze’s production is dynamic and multifaceted – largely thanks to the active use of stage machinery, which allows the audience to be instantly transported from the Moabit prison in Germany, where the poet spent the last months of his life, to the battlefield, to the hospital, to distant Kazan, where his wife and young daughter remained…