Arshin Mal Alan

first published 1913

Arshin Mal Alan (Azerbaijani: Arşın mal alan, lit. 'The Cloth Peddler') is a 1913 comic and romantic operetta by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov about a cloth peddler in 1900s Shusha, who is looking for a wife. Hajibeyov composed the operetta in Saint Petersburg and it was staged on October 25, 1913. The operetta is rich in national characteristics and realism. Following the opening in Azerbaijan, Arshin Mal Alan was performed in theatres of Tbilisi, Yerevan and Ashgabat, as well as Iran and Turkey.

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Genre:

Comedy

Original language:

Azerbaijani

Year page:

1913