Michael Schnack was also the producer of the same operetta staged in Vienna Chamber Orchestra (Austria) in 2006 to a great acclaim. A Los Angeles-based orchestra of exquisite musicians will play the music. It is the first time that this unique musical comedy will be performed at such a scale and form in the English-speaking world in general, and the U.S. in particular, AzerTAc reports.
Regular updates about the performance will be posted on facebook.com/theclothpeddler All interview requests addressing the producer and singers should be sent to [email protected] Tickets can be obtained from clothpeddler.us.
The Cloth Peddler/Arşın Mal Alan was composed and staged by the founder of Azerbaijani opera and classical music Uzeyir Hajibeyli in 1913 in Baku, Azerbaijan. This musical comedy with amazing music and breathtaking plot is considered to be the first operetta in the entire Muslim world. Over the last 100 years, the operetta has been successfully performed in a plethora of languages in over 60 countries of the world, including in Austria, France, China, Greece, India, Russia, Turkey.
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