LEGEND OF LOVE

Ballet in three acts
A. Melikov
Libretty by Nazim Hikmet and Yuri Grigorovich
Characters:
Mekhmene Banu, the Queen
Shireen, her sister
Ferkhad, the court painter
The Vizier
A Stranger
The Jester
Ferkhad’s friends
Shireen’s friends
Court Dancing Girls
Courtiers, officers and palace guards, the people, mourners, visions of Ferkhad and Mekhmene Banu
The events take place in the Far East