Organization

Singer

Berj Karazian

Nazar

Tereza Gevorgyan

Ustian

Anaïs Heghoyan

Neighbour

Mikayel Grigoryan

Tiratsu

Philip Clieve

Vosgan

Aris Nadirian

Sako

Hovhannes Arakelyan

Ghunkianos

Marcin Gesla

Tamada

Arsen Zakaryan

Tiger

Ellie Parsons

Marjan

Atina Zainali

Tango

Christina Gulvanessian

Zulo

Nazik Andonian

First Loonylander

Hamo Gregorian

Second Loonylander

Jack Roberts

Senegabed

Susanna Hogan

Russian Queen

Mary-Jean O'Doherty

Italian Queen

Spanish Queen

Stage director

Seta White

Conductor

Levon Parikian

Lighting designer

Claire Childs

Costume designer

Zahra Mansouri

Set designer

Choreographer

Rouzanna Gasparian

Chorus singer

Nadia Yeghiazarian

Annie Kasparian

Alexei Emam

David Stephan

London Armenian Opera

Kaj Nazar

Hammersmith

United Kingdom

Kaj Nazar Stepanian

Public

Approved

Kaj Nazar' is a comic opera by Haro Stepanian. The story is based on a folk fairy tale and is the subject

of Hovhanes Tumanian's famous work of the same name. The popularity of this story is such that it has

been adapted and performed as a stage play, cartoon and movie.                                                             

 

Nazar is a boastful and delusional man who sits in the house and daydreams. His eternally suffering wife

Ustian, who does all the housework, is fed up with his laziness and often resorts to violence! With a         

"fairytale" turn of events his dreams become real.....                                                                                  

 

The opera was composed in 1934 and was first performed in the newly opened opera house in Yerevan in

1935. The libretto is by dramatist Derenik Demirdjian, who is the author of the play called 'Kaj Nazar'.   

Demirdjian's libretto adds certain darkness to the comedy and gives a political dimension to it. Here, the

simpleton Nazar becomes a tyrant oppressor whose reign of terror ends abruptly by people's uprising.      

 

Since its debut in 1935 this work has never been performed. Stepanian's unique musical style is well suited

to the nature of comedy in this piece. His other operas include 'Sasuntsi Davit' (Davit of Sasun), 'Nuneh',

'Lusabatsin' (at the dawn), 'Herosuhin' (the heroine).

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew