Atageldy Garyagdyev, an opera singer, People's Artist of Turkmenistan, performed a song in Astrakhan that will become the musical arrangement of a documentary film about Magtymguly Fragi, which is currently being filmed in the Astrakhan region by Association "Turkmenfilm".
An international film festival will be held in the city of Arkadag on October 14-15, 2023. This was stated during a Cabinet meeting held on August 31.
Film directors of the “Turkmenfilm” Association named after Oguz Khan received an invitation to join the jury of the film festival of the Turkic world "Korkut ata - 2023" and become participants in the film forum.
The museum values of Turkmenistan will be presented at the Silk Road International Cultural Expo, which will be held in the Chinese city of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, on September 6-7. Invitation to become the guest of honor the country received expositions this summer.
There are two months left before the opening of the VII Moscow International Festival of Arts “Sounds of the Dutar” named after Nury Halmamedov. This year it will be held from October 29 to November 4.
V Festival of Academic Music - Tsinandali Festival starts on August 31 in Tsinandali - a magnificent historical estate located in the east of Georgia. Famous musicians, soloists, conductors, composers and artists from all over the world have gathered here and will become participants in the celebration. The Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra, members of which are the best young musicians from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Great Britain, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Ukraine and Turkmenistan, will become an ornament and a beautiful "cut" for artists and performers.
The State Academic Maly Theater of Russia will come to Turkmenistan in September as part of the Big Tours project. Russian artists will present two productions to the Turkmen public - "The Cherry Orchard" and "Marriage". Performances will run from 18 to 22 September on the stage of the Main Academic Drama Theater named after Saparmurat Turkmenbashi.
The concert "Day of Turkmenistan" was held on August 28 in Astrakhan as part of the International Festival of Classical Art "Caspian Seasons-2023", which takes place in the Russian city from August 22 to September 6. Musicians and vocalists from the Caspian states - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan came to the Astrakhan region to participate in the cultural action.
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.
