Әппақ - дочь кыпчакская (AstanaOpera)

PREMIERE

Serikzhan ABDINUROV, Alibi ABDINUROV

APPAK – KIPCHAKS’ DAUGHTER

Opera in 2 acts

Libretto by Tleugazy BEISSEMBEK 
Performed in Kazakh

(with synchronized Russian and English supertitles)

Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes (with two intervals)

Please note that the age limit is 10+

Management reserves the right to substitute performers and works performed

Appak – Kipchaks’ Daughter is a national opera created by contemporary Kazakhstani composers and staged at the Astana Opera House.

The libretto is based on the love story of Nizami Ganjavi (c. 1141 – c. 1203), a classic of Persian poetry and one of the greatest poets of the medieval East, and a young Kipchak beauty named Appak. “Noble in appearance, beautiful and wise”, she was gifted to the poet by the ruler of Derbent. Nizami freed her from captivity and married her, and Appak became his great love and muse – the very inspiration behind the poet’s captivating female characters.

In the opera, the protagonists must overcome hatred, envy, betrayal, slander and deceit, which heightens the dramatic tension. It is Appak’s wisdom and her love for her homeland – the Kipchak steppe – that bring peace between two warring peoples. She played a pivotal role not only in Nizami Ganjavi’s life and creative work, but also in the history of her own nation.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Music Director and Conductor – Abzal MUKHITDIN, People’s Artist of Kazakhstan
Stage Director – Mikhail PANDZHAVIDZE, Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan
Costume and Set Designers – Pavel DRAGUNOV, Sofya TASMAGAMBETOVA
Lighting Designer – Sergei SHEVCHENKO
Video Designer – Pavel SUVOROV
Choreographer – Bostan KOZHABEKOV
Assistant Conductor – Ruslan BAIMURZIN
Assistant Director – Yerenbak TOIKENOV
Assistant Set Designer – Yerbol BISSENOV
Assistant Costume Designer – Dariga TAISHIKOVA
Assistant Lighting Designer – Karim RAMASH
Assistant Video Designer – Azamat KUTTYGUZHIN
Technical Project Manager – Victor CARARE
Opera Company Director – Talgat MUSSABAYEV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Tickets purchased at the Astana Opera are exchangeable and refundable only in cases of cancelled or postponed performances. In all other cases, no refunds and exchanges are possible.