The heart of ancient Persia was born last night!

Thousands of the Persians and the Japanese last night gathered in the Persepolis to see the most splendid musical concert in Iran.

Here is the Apadana palace, like the last thousands years, the palace of Darius is in the rest, darkness and silence have occupied the space, suddenly the silence is broken with a mysterious voice which comes from the distance: A great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth, who created yonder sky, who created man, who created happiness for man, ... and then the darkness is also broken!

It seems Persian soldiers have really come out of the walls!

Japanese Musicians

Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri

I agree with Ihsan; how did those musicians and actors manage to get away with such a spectacle?  Not only is the guy in the first picture apparently performing a Zoroastrian ritual (note the sacred fire in front of him), but didn't Ayatollah Khomeini ban all music, shortly after he took over?  This looks more like something the late Shah would have done.  Remember the big parade the Shah held on the same spot in 1971, to commemorate 2,500 years of Iranian culture.

Still, I think I would have liked to have been there to see it.  For some reason it also reminds me of the play the children in my church put on last year, to re-enact the story in the Old Testament Book of Esther.  My daughter played Queen Vashti in it.  Of course this is considerably fancier!

I read somewhere that in Iran under the Mullahs, music is allowed, but only the traditional folk songs. It was an article about the Iranian-born Armenian singer Andy, and how he is very popular in Iran but all his albums are obtained by bootlegs and that if the police find people playing it they could get arrested. Thats what it said in the article, and as a result im amazed that the mullahs allowed something like this.

Is there any other sites with more information on this event?

Sorry I don't have those pics, it seems CHN has removed them!

wasn't  the singer kokosh banned from singing in Iran?

 

I found one of them:

Sabzevarian said that he has saved all of those pics and will email them to me  however I have not gotten any email from him yet!