The concert, which opened the major project “German Weeks in Uzbekistan”, organized by the Embassy of Germany in Uzbekistan, Goethe Institute, the Fund Forum in collaboration with partners, has become a music dialogue between the two countries.

In their greeting speech to the audience, German Ambassador Wolfgang Neuen and head of Goethe Institute Johannes Dahl, said: “The Concert “Orient and Handel” is a true music meeting between the east and the west, which reveals the diversity of German and Uzbek cultures and the close link between our two countries”.

For an hour and a half the opera singers held the audience captivated. Love, loneliness, pain, meetings and parting - themes no one is a stranger to - were masterfully embodied in the performance by the actors. They presented opera seria, performed in three acts, created by the prominent composer Handel.

Lofty music permeated the entire hall. Each movement of the conductor’s baton seemed to change expressions on the viewers’ faces, from joy to sadness and pensiveness. The language of opera may not be understandable to everyone but music finds the way to everyone’s hearts.