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Elchin Azizov

Baritone

As Giorgio Germont in La Traviata. Venera Gimadieva as Violetta Valéry.Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Giorgio Germont in La Traviata. Venera Gimadieva as Violetta Valéry.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
In the title part in Prince Igor. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
In the title part in Prince Igor. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Gryaznoy in The Tsar's Bride. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Gryaznoy in The Tsar's Bride.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Rodrigo in Don Carlo. Andrea Caré as Don Carlo.Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Rodrigo in Don Carlo. Andrea Caré as Don Carlo.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Escamillo in Carmen. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Escamillo in Carmen. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Escamillo in Carmen. Agunda Kulaeva as Carmen.Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Escamillo in Carmen. Agunda Kulaeva as Carmen.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Lescaut in Manon Lescaut. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Lescaut in Manon Lescaut.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Misgir in The Snow Maiden. Anna Nechaeva as Kupava. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Misgir in The Snow Maiden.
Anna Nechaeva as Kupava.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera. Dinara Alieva as Amelia. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera.
Dinara Alieva as Amelia.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Count Tomsky in The Queen of Spades. (Rimas Tuminas production). Igor Golovatenko as Prince Yeletsky.Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Count Tomsky in The Queen of Spades.
(Rimas Tuminas production).
Igor Golovatenko as Prince Yeletsky.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.

Awards

4th prize-winner at the 3rd International Byul-Byul Competition (Baku, 2005).
He was awarded the International Union of Music People medal (Moscow, 2006).
2nd prize-winner at the 2nd Galina Vishnevskaya International Competition for Opera Singers (Moscow, 2008).

						

			
Biography

			Born in Baku. In 1997, he graduated from the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Art with the profession of film director.


 In August 2005, he enrolled at the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University (Salzburg, Richard Miller’s class), from 2006-2007, he studied with Alessandro Misciasci.


 In 2005-2007, he did a special course at the Opera studio attached to the Baku Academy of Music where he studied under the direction of Azad Aliev.


 In 2007, he became a probationer and soloist at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre (teacher — Badri Maisuradze), where he made his debut in the role of Escamillo (Georges Bizet’s Carmen).


 Since 2008, he has been a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.		

						

			
Repertoire

			Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta) 

 Escamillo (Carmen) 

 Leandro (The Love for Three Oranges) 

 Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus) 

 Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride) 

 Tomsky, Zlatogor (The Queen of Spades) 

 Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov) 

 Giorgio Germont (La Traviata) 

 Igor Svyatoslavich (Prince Igor) 

 Rodrigo (Don Carlo) 

 Lescaut (Manon Lescaut) 

 Misgir (The Snow Maiden) 

 Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera) 

 Mazeppa (Mazeppa) 

 Scarpia (Tosca)



 Also in repertoire: 

 Rigoletto (Rigoletto) 

 Amonasro (Aida) 

 Iago (Otello) 

 Count di Luna (Il trovatore) 

 Nabucco (Nabucco) 

 High Priest of Dagon (Samson et Dalila) 

 Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier) 

 Macbeth (Macbeth) 
		

						

			
Tours

			He has appeared in Moscow, Yaroslavl, Archangelsk, Vienna, Salzburg, Milan, Paris. 

 In December 2007, he took part in the I International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival in Baku. 

 

 He has acted in movies (Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey) and is the director of several films and theatre productions. 

 

 Among engagements of the 2017/18 season: Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta) at the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Bolshoi Theatre tour, conductor Tugan Sokhiev), Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier) at the Hungarian State Opera (in concert, conductor Jader Bignamini), Macbeth at the Festival d’Opéra, Lyon and Scarpia (Tosca) at the Ópera Nacional de Chile, Santiago. 

 

 In the season 2018/19 he has appeared at the Metropolitan opera in such productions as Samson et Dalila (Abimelech) and Iolanta (Ibn-Hakia). 

In May 2018, appeared as Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride) at the Shanghai Grand Theatre (Bolshoi’s tour in China, conductor Tugan Sokhiev). 

In July 2019 he appeared at the Bravo Vail Music Festival in Colorado as Scarpia in Tosca, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. 



In the 2019-20 season, Elchin Azizov returns to Metropolitan Opera twice, first in his role debut as Paolo in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra and then as Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Leascaut. 
		

								
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