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Theater goers have a chance to once again enjoy Uzeyir Hajibayli's musical comedy "If Not That One, Then This One", Azernews reports.

Azerbaijan State Academic Musical Theater will present the comedy on July 19. Director of the two-part musical comedy is the Honored Art Worker Nazim Hajialibayov, production designer is the Honored Artist Ismayil Mammadov.

The magnificent performance, which was awarded the Culture Ministry`s Zirva Award, was staged by People's Artist, Shohrat" Order holder Jannat Salimova.

"If Not That One,Then This One" is a 1910 operetta in four acts that reflects social and everyday life relations in pre-revolutionary Azerbaijan. It is the composer's second work written in this genre.

Through this comedy, Uzeyir Hajibayli reveals the social and everyday prejudices widespread in society at the beginning of the 20th century and uses laughter and satire for this. He chose such an original path to put forward his ideas in those years. And the psychotypes of characters were so skillfully described that the comedy is relevant at all times, as it reveals human vices - greed, hypocrisy, lies, cowardice, etc.

Hajibayli used the Azerbaijani mugham in some of the music and incorporated extracts from Fuzuli's ghazals in the libretto.

The musical comedy has been shown for many years by various directors, not only in Azerbaijan but also in many theatres around the world.

Tickets can be purchased from all centralized ticket offices of the city, ASAN Service Centers, as well as from iTicket.Az.

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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @lmntypewriterrr

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