Oct
4

Stephanos Tsirakoglou

Zirensché

Abai

Südthüringisches Staatstheater

Meiningen, Germany

Stephanos Tsirakoglou: Zirensché

The name Abai has almost the same meaning to Kazakhstan as the name Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for the Germans.  He was a was poet, philosopher, composer, and an important personality of the public life.  He is credited as the founder of the Kazakhstan style of poetry.  Because of his intellectual capacities, he got the surname “Abai” (the smart), under which he later became well known as.  The biography of the poet “The Way of Abai” and the opera “Abai” of Schubanow and Hamidi are new treasures from Kazakhstan.

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