Baku – APA. The U.S. second largest Jewish newspaper “Jewish Journal” has published an article on “The Cloth Peddler” operetta recently performed in Los Angeles.
Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles told APA that the author of the ““Cloth Peddler” comes to U.S.” article is editor-in-chief of the journal ROB ESHMAN.
The article says: “On Sept. 7, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion downtown, the curtain went up on the Muslim world’s first operetta, “The Cloth Peddler” (“Arshin Mal Alan”) a comic work by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov.
The event actually marked at least two firsts. It was the first full production of the 1913 work in the United States. And it was the first time a Muslim nation had invited essentially a city’s entire Jewish community as guests to an opera.
The Consul General of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles produced the operetta, and the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) funded the elaborate, full-scale production. Azerbaijan, once part of the Soviet Union, sits on the northern border of Iran. Like Iran, it is a majority Shiite Muslim nation. Unlike Iran, it has established trade and political ties with the State of Israel.
The consulate saw the event as a chance to further the country’s image as a culturally innovative, tolerant nation, and as part of that effort, brought cast members to perform scenes from the operetta to area public schools. It also took out several advertisements in the Jewish Journal, inviting members of the Jewish community to attend the performance, which was free and open to the public.
The response, said Consul General Nasimi Aghayev, was excellent, though he couldn’t provide exact numbers of Jewish guests among the capacity audience.”
"Jewish Journal" is the most read Jewish newspaper in Los Angeles settled by more than 700 000 Jews.
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