Azerbaijan State National Academic Drama Theatre

  

On March 10, 1873, in Club of aristocrats” under the guidance of the well-known educator Hasan bey Zardabi pupils of Baku Real school put at stage  M.F.Akhundov’s Vizier of Lankaran khan comedy and thus  the foundation of professional national theater, in other words, the Academic National Drama Theatre (AMDT) was laid. The theatre, which previously performed spectacles in the form of various troupe (at theatre groups under the Nijat, Safa, Hamiyyət cultural-educational societies, as well as in the form of the Muslim Drama Artists\' Union, Brothers Hajibeyov administration), since 1919 till date had been functioning under the status of the State Theatre. 

The name of the theater in various years was as Government teatro, the United State Teatro, Azerbaijan Turkish Drama Teatro, named after Dadash Bunyadzade (1923-1933) and Mashadi Azizbeyov (1933-1991). In 1959, for the highest academic achievements the Academic name was given to the theater. This Arts center is called as Academic National Drama Theatre since 1991.
During the 125-year history of the theater after creation of actors school of Abulfat Veli, Mohammed bey Alvandi, Hussein Arablinsky, Jahangir Zeynalov, Abulhasan Anaplı, the great generation of actors and directors was trained: People\'s Artists of the USSR Aga Aliyev, Sidgi Ruhulla, Marziyyə Davudova, Alesker Alekperov, Adil Iskandarov (director), Hokumə Gurbanova, Ismail Daghestanli, Ismail Osmanly, Mohsun Sanani, Reza Tahmasib (actor and director), etc.
ANDT finding growth with plays of M.F.Akhundov, N.B.Vazirov, A.B.Haqverdiyev, N. Narimanov, J. Jabbarli, H. Javid, S. Rahman, Ilyas Afandiyev had included in own repertoire works of classics of the world like Shakespeare,  Schiller Molliere, Lope de Vega, Carlo Haldoni, A. Dumas, V. Hugo, H. Hauptman, Maurice Maeterlinck, Balzac, Eugene O `Nil, B. Nusich, M. Sebastian, H. Heynen, Walter, A. Ostrovski, A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, L. Tolstoy, N. Gogol, A. Chekhov and dozens others.

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