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On Saturday evening, the Turkmenistan Cinema and Concert Hall played host to an event that continued a series of musical performances to mark Ashgabat’s 140
th anniversary.
songs and
romances in Armenian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Moldovan, Russian and Turkmen. But let me relate everything in due order…
Stella Faramazova, a brilliant pianist and winner of international competitions, was accompanying the singer on the piano. Looking at this elegant keyboard instrument, one would naturally envision soft, beautiful musical sounds, and contrasting passages.
Vera Bazarova, the well-known opera singer in our country, opened the festive concert by singing extracts from opera arias: Olga’s song from the opera ‘The Mermaid’, Giorgio Germont’s aria from the romantic tragedy ‘La Traviata’, and an aria from Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘A Masked Ball’.