A coordinating council of opera and ballet theaters will appear in the CIS to exchange experience between cultural institutions and create a unified database of works. The creative project was initiated by the Tajik State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after S. Aini and will be opened in Dushanbe, the press service of the theater reports.

A solemn event dedicated to the upcoming 300th anniversary of Magtymguly Fragi was held in Ashgabat at the monument to the classic.

The film studio "Turkmenfilm" named after Oguzkhan starts shooting documentaries about Magtymguly Fragi abroad. Film crews will work in the Astrakhan region (Russia), Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Turkey.

History will come to life in animation - for the anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, the animators of the “Soyuzmultfilm” film studio have created an animated almanac. It will be presented in September 2023. It will be possible to watch the new picture on the social networks of the “Soyuzmultfilm” film studio, the press service of the organization reports.

The concert-presentation of the musical collection of works by Nury Halmamedov for soprano and piano will take place this autumn in the Russian capital as part of the VII Moscow International Festival of Arts “Sounds of the Dutar”, which is named after the great Turkmen composer.

The Association of Composers of the Caspian countries, which will constantly interact with the composer communities of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan, decided to create in 2024. This decision was made by the participants of the First International Forum of Composers of the Caspian Sea, taking place these days in Astrakhan as part of the festival of classical art "Caspian Seasons - 2023". Mikhail Golikov, artistic director and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Caspian States, told TASS about this in an interview.

The opening of one of the largest academic music festivals in Georgia - Tsinandali Festival, will take place on August 31 at the historical estate of Prince Chavchavadze in Tsinandali (Kakheti). The fifth anniversary festival is also attended by seven young Turkmen musicians from the State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan under the direction of conductor Rasul Klychev. Some of them came to Georgia for the second time and there are debutants among them, who in February of this year passed the most difficult selection audition, which was conducted in Ashgabat by Claudio Vandelli, one of the most promising Italian conductors of the new generation and co-author of the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra.

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Plans for the organization of mutual touring activities and the participation of artists of the Astrakhan region and Turkmenistan in significant cultural events of each other next year, 2024, were considered at a meeting at the Ministry of External Relations of the JSC on Wednesday.

I International Forum of Composers of the Countries The Caspian Sea will be held in Astrakhan as part of the International Festival of Classical Art "Caspian Seasons — 2023", which will be held in the Russian city from August 22 to September 6.