Culture

World’s famous Christie’s  Auction organized, on September 15, together with the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and YARAT Modern  Art Space, its first exhibition in Azerbaijan in a grandiose hall of the newly inaugurated Four Seasons Hotel in Baku. First Lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva and Vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva attended the ceremony.

Works by great Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi – “Treasury of Secrets”, “Khosrov and Shirin”, “Leyli and Majnun”, “Seven Beauties” and “Iskendername”  poems – were, for the first time, published in Azerbaijani in separate books.Prepared with support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Azerbaijan Republic...

Held with organizational support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Gabala 4^th International Music Festival ended on August 5. Continued 13 days, the concert was performed by eminent musicians, artistic teams, soloists and conductors from Azerbaijan and foreign countries. The Festival ended with performance by the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Led by twice Grammy...

The official ceremony of opening of the Gabala 4^th International Music Festival was held in the park before the Gafgaz Resort Hotel, in an open air, with support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, July 25. Delivering a speech at the ceremony, one of the artistic directors of the Festival, Rector of the Baku Music Academy named after Uzeir Hajibeyli, People’s Artist Farhad...

A bilateral agreement was signed between the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Vatican on restoration of Roman catacombs, June 22. The document was signed by First Lady of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva and Cardinal Gianfranco Ravazi, the Minister of Culture of Vatican and chairman of the Pontifical Commission of the Pope for Sacred Archaeology.