Ali and Nino

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Ali and Nino

He is a Muslim. She is a Georgian princess.
Outside — revolution, war, the collapse of everything that once seemed eternal. Between them — something that should not have happened. Not because it was forbidden, but because it was impossible. And yet, it does.

Director Ilgar Safat resists turning this story into a polished legend. His Baku of the early 20th century is not a backdrop, but a fault line — between East and West, between a fading past and an undefined future. Everything here is fragile, on the edge, and it is precisely within this fragility that something irreversible is born.

No revolution can erase what happened between Ali and Nino — in this city, on these streets, in a time that will never return.

Baku remembers them. And they are waiting for you.

Director: Ilgar Safat
Production Designer: Mustafa Mustafayev
Music: Ilgar Safat
Choreography: Nigar Rzayeva, Raula Turkkan
Lighting Designer: Nikolai Rudychev
Stage Combat: Asker Rahimov
Assistant Director: Lanita Afonina

Cast:
Ali Khan Shirvanshir: Murad Ismayilov, Ibrahim Chingiz
Nino Kipiani: Syama Veliyeva
Melik Nakharyan: Farid Bakhramov
Ilyas bey (Ali’s friend): Rashad Aliyarov
Muhammad Heydar (Ali’s friend): Farid Huseynov
Seyid Mustafa: Zaur Teregulov
Princess Kipiani (Nino’s mother), Mrs. Turinova, Singer, First English Lady: Elena Spitsina
Safar Khan Shirvanshir (Ali’s father): Maksud Mammadov
Prince Kipiani (Nino’s father), Mirza Asadulla: Yagub Zeynalov
Gochu (Ali’s relative), English Lieutenant: Yaroslav Trifonov
Qazi Molla, Old Mustafa: Abdulla Ismayilov
Prince Didiani: Salman Bayramov
Princess Orbelyani: Elmira Aslanova
Sandro, Fatali Khan Khoyski: Ilkin Mekhtiyev
Assad-as-Saltane Shirvanshir, English Diplomat: Zaur Iskenderov
His wives: Medina Mulaeva, Govkhar Shahbanova, Maya Vorobzhanskaya, Samira Rahimova
Yahya Kuli (eunuch): Rumiya Aghayeva
Additional roles: Maya Vorobzhanskaya, Laman Azimova, Olesya Gasimova
Midwife: Zumrud Aliyeva
Newspaper sellers / Commissars: Tamerlan Abdullayev, Mirzaaga Akhundzade

Duration:
Act I – 60 minutes
Act II – 70 minutes