FULL HEART OF A POET (Mukhtar Ashrafi) Tashkent Rustam Alimardonov, M. Boltaboeva, Aminzoda Zhumaniezov
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Heart of a poet
- Composer: Ashrafi Mukhtar
- Libretto: Izzat Sultan Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: State Academic Bolshoi Theater named after Alisher Navoi, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- Recorded: unknown
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Rustam Alimardonov, M. Boltaboeva, Aminzoda Zhumaniezov, Rahim Mirzakamalov, Shukur Geofurov, Farrukh Ismatov, Mehriddin Meliev
- Conductor: Fazliddin Yakubzhanov
- Orchestra:
- Chorus Master: Sulaimon Shodmonov, Natalia Kupriyanova
- Choreographer: Zamir Nurymbetov, Charos Zhuraboeva
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Aleks Wien
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Mukhtar Ashrafi (Russian: Мухтар Ашрафович Ашрафи, Uzbek: Muxtor Ashrafiy; 11 June [O.S. 29 May] 1912 in Bukhara – 10 December 1975 in Tashkent) was a Soviet Uzbek composer. He was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1951. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1941 was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1943 and 1952. He is known as the author of the first Uzbek opera “Buran” (together with Sergei Vasilenko) and the first Uzbek symphony.
His daughter Muqadamma was a noted medievalist.
Mukhtar Ashrafi was born on 29 May (11 June) 1912 in Bukhara. He grew up in the family of his father, a famous Bukhara singer and musician Ashrafzhan Hafiza.[5] At the age of seven, Ashrafi began to play Uzbek folk instruments improvising on the dutar. In 1924, he entered Oriental Music School in Bukhara. In 1928, Ashrafi graduated a dutar class in Bukhara and entered the Samarkand Institute of Music and Choreography.
From 1934 to 1936, he studied in a composition class of Sergei Vasilenko at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1934, Ashrafi wrote Komsomol and pioneer songs, and in 1935-1936, he wrote lyrical songs on the words of Ruzuli, working on his first opera at the same time.
Together with his teacher, Sergei Vasilenko, Ashrafi wrote the first Uzbek opera “Buran” that was staged in 1939, starting the history of Uzbek Opera and Ballet Theater.
In 1941-1944, Ashrafi studied composition at the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1948, he graduated from the conducting faculty of the Leningrad Conservatory as an external student.In 1942, Ashrafi created the first Uzbek heroic symphony.Сommemorative plaque, Mukhtar Ashrafi museum
From 1943 to 1947, Ashrafi was a director of Alisher Navoi Uzbek Opera and Ballet Theater. Since 1944 Ashrafi was a teacher, and since 1953 – a professor at the Tashkent Conservatory.
In 1964-66 he was a director, artistic director and chief conductor of the Samarkand Opera and Ballet Theater, and since 1966 – a director, artistic director and chief conductor of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the Uzbek SSR in Tashkent.
From 1971 to 1975, Ashrafi was a rector of the Tashkent Conservatory.
Ashrafi is the author of the books “Indian Diaries” (in Russian and Uzbek), “Music in my life”, numerous articles in magazines and periodicals.
Mukhtar Ashrafi died on 15 December 1975 in Tashkent. In 1976 Tashkent Conservatory was named after Ashrafi.
Quoted from Wikipedia