.jpg "Marionettes are moved in the “Hafez” opera puppet show at Tehran’s Ferdowsi Hall on July 1, 2012. (Mehr)")
TEHRAN -- Iran’s Aran Theater Troupe has been invited to Italy to perform the “Hafez” opera puppet show in Milan.
“Piccolo Teatro in Milan, which is one of Italy’s most prestigious theaters, has invited us to perform the show in the city,” director Behruz Gharibpur told the Persian service of ISNA on Tuesday.
“The puppet show will be staged at the theater in early or mid-May. The officials of the theater will inform us about the exact date in the near future,” he added.
The puppet show, which is about the life story of Persian poet Hafez (1325-1389), has previously been performed in Tehran.
Aran has staged the opera puppet shows “Macbeth”, “Ashura”, “Rustam and Sohrab”, and “Rumi” in Iran some international events over the past decade.
Gharibpur plans to stage “Leyli and Majnun” in the Azeri language in Tehran in June or July. It is based on an opera of the same name composed by Azerbaijani musician and playwright Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885-1948).
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