tracks

Disc 1
Act I Scene 1: Sultan Mobarezedin's Attack (Hafez)
Act I Scene 2: Disaster And Killing Sultan Abu Eshaq (Sultan Abu Eshaq, Mother Of Sultan Abu Eshaq, Sultan Mobarezedin, People)
Act I Scene 2: Elegy (Mother Of Sultan Abu Eshaq, Hafez, People)
Act I Scene 3: Pub And Obeid Zakani (Obeid Zakani, Sheriff, Butler
Act I Scene 4: Saqinameh (Hafez, Chorus)
Act I Scene 5: Prison Of Sultan Mobarezedin (Prisoners, Poet, Sultan Mobarezedin, Shah Shoja, Obeid Zakani)
Act I Scene 6: Hafez's Aria I (Hafez)
Act I Scene 6: Obeid And Sultan Mobarezedin (Obeid Zakani, Sultan Mobarezedin, Poet)
Act I Scene 7: Hafez's Aria II And Arrest Hafez (Hafez, Poet, Soldier 1, Mohammad Gol - Andam)
Disc 2
Act II Scene 1: Revolt (Hafez, People, Farmer, Shah Shoja, Poet, Minister, Sultan Mobarezedin)
Act II Scene 2: Victory (Soldier 2, Sultan Mobarezedin, Poet, Shah Shoja)
Act II Scene 3: Departure Of Hafez (Mohammad Gol - Andam, Hafez, Sa'di, Khajoo Kermani, Mowlavi, Khayam, Chorus)
Act II Scene 3: Dialogue (Mohammad Gol - Andam, Sultan Mobarezedin, Poet, Hafez, Shakh - E Nabat)
Act II Scene 4: Shakh - E Nabat (Mohammad Gol - Andam, Shakh - E Nabat, Hafez, People)
Act II Scene 5: Death (Shakh - E Nabat, Hafez, People)
Act II Scene 6: Final (Hafez, Chorus)
2:10

notes

The music of Iranian composer Behzad Abdi fuses dastgāh (the Iranian modal system) with Western classical forms. He wrote Iran’s first national opera, Rumi (Naxos 8.660424-25), and Hafez also exemplifies his approach to the medium. The opera’s subject is the great Persian poet and mystic Hafez, whose sonnets and poetry are still widely read across the Persian-speaking world today. Behrouz Gharibpour’s libretto traces the poet’s tribulations, memories of keeping his poems from being destroyed by a despotic government, and subsequent exile. Abdi’s polytonal technique serves to reflect the unique concepts of Hafez’s 14th-century poetry with passion, lyricism and power.

credits

Baritone Vocals – - Ali Momenian , - Babak Sabouri , - Mehdi Emami , - Rasoul Rahoo , - Tayeb Faghih
Bass Vocals – - Alireza Saiedi
Chorus – - Credo Chamber Choir
Composed By – - Behzad Abdi
Conductor – - Vladimir Sirenko *
Daf – - Zakaria Yusefi
Kamancha – - Danial Ajdari
Libretto By, Lyrics By – - Behrouz Gharibpour
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – - Haleh Seifizadeh , - Sahar Mohammadi
Ney – - Pasha Hanjani
Orchestra – - National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine
Oud – - Behnaz Behnamnia *
Santoor – - Pouya Saraei
Soprano Vocals – - Mojgan Chahian , - Razieh Abdi
Tenor Vocals – - Ali Zandevakili , - Alireza Alavian , - Alireza Mahdizadeh , - Eshaq Anvar , - Kayvan Farzin , - Mohammad Sadeq Eshaqi , - Mohammad Zakerhossein , - Sadjad Pourghanad , - Vesal Alavi , - Mohammad Motamedi *

companies

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