Nargiz (opera)

Nargiz (Azerbaijani: Nərgiz) – is the second opera by Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani composer and Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR, written in 1935.

Mammed Said Ordubadi is the author of a libretto to the opera.

[1] Music of the opera consists of folk songs of Azerbaijan.

In 1938, the opera was shown during the Decade of Azerbaijani Arts in Moscow, with the editorship of Reinhold Glière.

[1] It is also noted that, the opera narrates about a struggle of Azerbaijani peasants for the Soviet Power.