Ildar Amirovich Abdrazakov (Ildar Abdrazakov) |

Ildar Abdrazakov

Ildar Abdrazakov was born in Ufa and received his musical education at the Ufa State Institute of Arts (class of Professor M.G. Murtazina). After graduation, he was invited to the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre.

In 1998, Ildar Abdrazakov made his debut at the Mariinsky Theater as Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), and in 2000 he was accepted into the Mariinsky Theater troupe.

Among the roles performed on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater: Father Frost (The Snow Maiden), Rodolfo (Sleepwalker), Raymond Bidebend (Lucia di Lammermoor), Attila (Attila), Banquo (Macbeth), Guardiano and Marquis di Calatrava (“The Force of Destiny”), Don Giovanni and Leporello (“Don Giovanni”), Guglielmo (“Everybody Does It So”).

In addition, the singer’s repertoire includes the parts of Dositheus (“Khovanshchina”), the Varangian Guest (“Sadko”), Oroveso (“Norma”), Basilio (“The Barber of Seville”), Mustafa (“Italian in Algeria”), Selim (“Turk in Italy”), Moses (“Moses in Egypt”), Assur (“Semiramide”), Mahomet II (“Siege of Corinth”), Attila (“Attila”), Dona de Silva (“Ernani”), Oberto (“Oberto , Count di San Bonifacio”), Banquo (“Macbeth”), Monterone (“Rigoletto”), Ferrando (“Troubadour”), Pharaoh and Ramfis (“Hades”), Mephistopheles (“Mephistopheles”, “Faust”, ” The Condemnation of Faust”), Escamillo (“Carmen”) and Figaro (“The Marriage of Figaro”).

Ildar Abdrazakov’s concert repertoire includes bass parts in Mozart’s Requiem, Mass in F и Solemn Mass Cherubini, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Stabat Mater и Petite Messe Solennelle Rossini, Verdi’s Requiem, Symphony No. 3 (“Romeo and Juliet”) and Mass solemn Berlioz, Pulcinella by Stravinsky.

Currently, Ildar Abdrazakov sings on the world’s leading opera stages. In 2001, he made his debut at La Scala (Milan) as Rodolfo (La Sonnambula), and in 2004 at the Metropolitan Opera as Mustafa (Italian in Algiers).

The singer actively tours, giving solo concerts in Russia, Italy, Japan, the USA and taking part in international music festivals, including the festival “Irina Arkhipova Presents”, “Stars of the White Nights”, the Rossini Festival (Pesaro, Italy), the Vladimir Spivakov Festival in Colmar (France), the Verdi Festival in Parma (Italy), the Salzburg Festival and the Mozart Festival in La Coruña (Spain).

In the creative biography of Ildar Abdrazakov, performances on the stages of the Teatro Liceo (Barcelona), Teatro Philharmonico (Verona), Teatro Massimo (Palermo), the Vienna State Opera, Opera Bastille (Paris) and collaboration with outstanding contemporary conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Riccardo Muti, Bernard de Billi, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Frizza, Riccardo Cheily, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Antonio Pappano, Vladimir Spivakov, Daniel Oren, Boris Gruzin, Valery Platonov, Konstantin Orbelyan and Mung-Wun Chung.

In the seasons 2006-2007 and 2007-2008. Ildar Abdrazakov has performed at the Metropolitan Opera (Faust), Washington Opera House (Don Giovanni), Opéra Bastille (Louise Miller) and La Scala (Macbeth). Among the engagements of the 2008-2009 season. – performances at the Metropolitan Opera as Raymond (“Lucia di Lammermoor”), Leporello (“Don Giovanni”), participation in the performance of Verdi’s Requiem with Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in Chicago with Riccardo Muti, as well as a concert performance and recording of Berlioz’s dramatic legend The Damnation of Faust in Vienna with Bertrand de Billy. In the summer of 2009, Ildar Abdrazakov made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in the title role in Moses and the Pharaoh with Riccardo Muti.

In the 2009-2010 season Ildar Abdrazakov performed at the Metropolitan Opera in the play “The Condemnation of Faust” (directed by Robert Lepage) and in a new production of the opera “Attila” directed by Riccardo Muti. Other achievements of the season include a performance of the part of Figaro in Washington, a recital at La Scala and a number of performances with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti in Salzburg.

The singer’s discography includes recordings of Rossini’s unpublished arias (conducted by Riccardo Muti, Decca), Cherubini’s Mass (Orchestra Bavarian radio conducted by Riccardo Muti, EMI Classics), Michelangelo Sonnets by Shostakovich (with the BBC и Chandos), as well as a recording of Rossini’s Moses and the Pharaoh (Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Riccardo Muti).

Ildar Abdrazakov – Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Among the competitive victories: the Grand Prix of the V International Television Competition named after. M. Callas New voices for Verdi (Parma, 2000); Grand Prix of the I International Competition of Elena Obraztsova (St. Petersburg, 1999); Grand Prix III International Competition. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov (St. Petersburg, 1998). Abdrazakov is a laureate of the 1997st television competition by Irina Arkhipova “The Grand Prize of Moscow” (1997), a laureate of the XNUMXst prize of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition. M.I. Glinka (Moscow, XNUMX).

Source: official website of the Mariinsky Theater Photo from the official website of the singer (author – Alexander Vasiliev)