Here, in January 1908, the premiere of the first Azerbaijani national opera "Leyli and Majnun", by Uzeyir Hajibeyov, took place.

A comedy-joke in 4 acts by D. A. Mansfeld “On Shares” and a one-act vaudeville by P. A. Karatygin “Witzmunder” were staged with success.

On 20 April 1898, the "Evil for good" play, by Iskender-bey Melikov, was shown by a troupe of amateurs at the Tagiyev's Theater.

On 7 December of the same year, Najaf-bey Vezirov's play "Out of the rain and under the downpour" and his vaudeville "Home education" were staged for of the poor students of the Baku Real School.

The reconstruction was carried out based on the project of the civil engineer Pavel Kognovitsky, being approved by the Construction Department of the Baku Governorate.

It is amazing that although, probably, there are people in Baku richer and more educated than Tagiyev, it was the honorable Haji who built the first theater building here.

Inquisitive young people of Baku several times a year get the opportunity to watch here comedies in a Turkic language.

And although the rent is one hundred rubles per evening, the respected Haji often not only does not take it, but also makes additional contributions for charitable purposes.

At the beginning of 1909, the building of the Tagiyev's Theater burned down as a result of another fire, and this aggravated the condition of the Azerbaijani troupe.

In the years when Tagiyev took up the development of the theatrical business, there was neither a theater school nor professional artists staff on the territory of Azerbaijan.

[12] The first performance in Azerbaijani was shown only ten years before the construction of the Tagiyev's theater in Baku.

According to the newspaper "Kaspi", dated with 5 December 1884, Tagiyev helped an amateur troupe of Azerbaijani artists, he rented them the theater's premises for free and did not take money for lighting.

For example, Tagiyev donated a part of the income from one of the performances staged at the theater to cover the deficit of the cash desk of the Armenian society.