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Ahmed Agdamski (Azerbaijani: Əhməd Ağdamski) also known by the stage name of Ahmed Bashir oglu Badalbeyli (Azerbaijani: Əhməd Bəşir oğlu Bədəlbəyli) (January 5, 1884, in Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate (Russian Empire) – April 1, 1954, in Agdash, Azerbaijan SSR) who was an Azerbaijani opera singer, mugam singer and actor.

Ahmed Agdamski Аымед Агдамски
Born	Əhməd Bəşir oğlu Bədəlbəyli (1884-01-05)January 5, 1884 Shusha, Azerbaijan
Died	April 1, 1954(1954-04-01) (aged 70) Agdash, Azerbaijan

Biography

Ahmadbey Badalbeyli was born on January 5, 1884, in Shusha, Azerbaijan. He attended circles of theater-lovers and participated in national spectacles from his childhood.[1]

Scenic activity of the actor began in 1910, with attendance of a theatrical troupe of “Nijat” charity union. He was famous for his performance of women roles in various operas in the early history of Azeri Opera, when women's appearance on stage was strictly forbidden by religion and tradition. But later he began to play male parts, too. Besides all these he also was engaged in pedagogic activity. He was always persecuted because of playing women's parts. Ahmedbey changed his surname and address. For several years he was known as Miri. At the beginning of the 1920s he returned to Karabakh, where he established a theatrical troupe in Aghdam city, in 1923. In 1934, he moved to Agdash.[1]

In 1943, Ahmad Agdamski was conferred “Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan” title.

He died on April 1, 1954.

Muslim women were not allowed to play in theater in Azrebaijan and this is why men played female parts. Ahmed Agdamski, whose nice voice and fine constitution helped him in creation female roles, was one of them. He played pieces of Leyli (“Leyli and Majnun”), by persuasion of his brother Badalbey and because of refusal of Farajov (because of persecution of theater-haters),[2] Asli (“Asli and Karam”), Gulnaz (“If Not That One, Then This One”), Gulchohra (“Arshin mal alan”), Minnat khanim (“Husband and wife”) and Tahmina (“Rustam and Zohrab”) from operas written by his cousin Uzeyir Hajibeyov. In “Shah Abbas and Khurshid Banu” he acted as poet Khurshidbanu Natavan.

In 1916, Agmed Agdamski was shot in “Arshin mal alan”, the first Azerbaijani comedy-film, which was based on motifs of an opera of the same name written by Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

Agdamski also played the female role of Gulchohra in the 1917 Azeri film The Cloth Peddler.[3]

References

Literature

• Huseynov, Rafael. The Thousand and Second Night. Baku, Ishyq, 1988. ISBN 5-89650-085-8 (in Azeri)

External links and sources

• Ahmed Agdamski at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Ahmed Agdamski

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[es] Ahmed Agdamski

Ahmed Agdamski (en azerí: Əhməd Ağdamski) fue cantante de ópera, actor de teatro y de cine, pedagogo de Azerbaiyán, Artista de Honor de la RSS de Azerbaiyán (1943).

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[ru] Бадалбейли, Ахмед-бек Башир оглы

Ахмедбек Башир оглы Бадалбейли (азерб. Əhmədbəy Bəşir oğlu Bədəlbəyli) (псевдоним: Ахмед Агдамский (азерб. Əhməd Ağdamski) — азербайджанский оперный певец (лирический тенор), актёр театра и кино. Брат Бадалбека Бадалбейли, дядя композитора Афрасияба Бадалбейли и режиссёра Шамси Бадалбейли. Заслуженный деятель искусств Азербайджанской ССР (1943).

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