“The new performances of the opera are aimed at reviving Ferdowsi Hall,” Gharibpur told Mehr on Friday.
The hall was established in September 2004 for performances of puppet shows. “Rustam and Sohrab” was the first show staged at the hall from mid January to late April 2005.
“Rustam and Sohrab” is the first puppet show opera based on a Shahnameh story. One hundred puppets and 15 puppeteers will bring the show to life. The puppets have been designed and produced in Austria and the music is composed and directed by Loris Tjeknavorian.
Several foreign ambassadors and cultural attachés from Italy, Austria, France, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Turkey were so impressed by the previous performance of the puppet show that they invited the artists to perform it in their countries.
“We have not been able to stage the puppet show in any of the countries yet. Nothing is clear in this regard,” Gharibpur said.
Gharibpur recently staged the play “Icaro” in commemoration of the innovative Russian theater director of the 1920s and 1930s Vsevolod Meyerhold at the Chaharsu Hall of Tehran’s City Theater.
He also plans to stage Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom's Cabin” in Tehran in the upcoming year. He said earlier that the discrimination in housing against racial minorities in the United States revealed when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and other parts of the U.S. South and the slowness of the relief process afterwards influenced his decision to stage the work.
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