Anna Asatryan, Lilit Hakobyan - The opera “Parvana” by Nikol Galanderyan: the Forgotten Echo of Armenian Romanticism (in Eng.)
18 Pages | 161-179 | DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2026.1-161 | Revceived on: 2026-03-07 | Reviewed on: 2026-03-16 | Accepted for printing on: 2026-03-20
Published in: 2026 N 1(231) / Arts
In the history of Armenian music, certain names endure forever. One of them is the Iranian-Armenian composer, pedagogue, and musical-public figure Nikol Galanderyan (1881–1944).
His opera “Parvana”, whose libretto is written to Hovhannes Tumanyan’s legend of the same name, is a unique fusion of folk mysticism. Oriental lyricism and traditions of European classical opera.
Galanderyan created the said opera in a historically complicated period (the first half of the XX century), while living and creating in Tehran. “Parvana” is the first and, perhaps, for now the only attempt to bring to the opera stage Tumanyan’s profound national, almost mystical text.
KeywordsNikol Galanderyan Hovhannes Tumanyan the opera “Parvana” musical Tumanyaneana Iranian–Armenian music.
Anna Asatryan - Ararat Aghasyan. Armenian Fine Arts on the Pages of the “Araks” Journal (St. Petersburg, 1887–1898)
4 Pages | 251-255 | DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2026.1-251 | Revceived on: 2026-02-02 | Reviewed on: 0001-01-01 | Accepted for printing on: 2026-03-20
Published in: 2026 N 1(231) / Publications