Ildar Abdrazakov
Ildar Abdrazakov graduated from the Ufa Institute of Arts in 1999. On graduation, he joined the Bashkir Opera. In 1998, he made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre and in 2000, he joined the Mariinsky Opera Company. He performs at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala, Bolshoi Theatre, German Opera in Berlin, Carnegie Hall, opera houses of Vienna, Washington, Paris, Roma, Munich, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Turin, Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, Geneva, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He has appeared at the Saltsburg Festival, Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Munich Festival, Verbier Festival, and BBC Proms. He has cooperated with the philharmonic orchestras of Vienna, Rotterdam, symphony orchestras of Chicago, Berlin, Kaunas, Montreal, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Bavaria Radio Orchestra, National Orchestra of France, La Scala Orchestra, Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, La Verdi Orchestra, and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.He performed under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, James Levine, Gianandrea Noseda, Bertrand de Billy, Riccardo Frizza, Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Paolo Carignani, Marco Armiliato, Alejo Pérez, Fabio Biondi, Yves Abel, Nicola Luisotti, Tugan Sokhiev, Constantine Orbelian, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin among others. He participated in productions staged by Richard Eyre, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Ivo van Hove, Dmitri Tcherniakov, and Vasily Barlhatov.
The singer’s répertoire includes the roles of Don Giovanni, Leporello and Mazetto in Don Giovanni and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, Assur in Semiramide, Mustafà in L’italiana in Algeri, Moïse in Moïse et Pharaon, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Selim in Il turco in Italia, and Alidoro in La Cenerentola by Rossini, title roles in Attila and Oberto, Walter in Luisa Miller, Philippe II in Don Carlos, Banco in Macbeth, Giovanni da Procida in I vespri siciliani, and Don Ruy in Ernani by Verdi, Enrico in Anna Bolena, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Alfonso in Lucrezia Borgia by Donizetti, Oroveso in Norma and Rodolfo in La sonnambula by Bellini, Mephistopheles in Faust by Gounod, La damnation de Faust by Berlioz and Mefistofele by Boito, Escamillo in Carmen by Bizet, Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr Miracle and Dapertutto in Les contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach, Salieri in Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov, Dosifey in Khovanshchina and the title role in Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky, the title role in Borodin’s Prince Igor, bass roles Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Verdi’s Requiem.
Since 2015, Ildar Abdrazakov has been the Artistic Director of the Elena Obraztsova International Academy of Music. In 2016, he created his own foundation to support and promote young talented artists. In 2018, the Abdrazakov Musical Festival was launched. In 2019, Ildar Abdrazakov made his debut as a stage director with Attila at the Bashkir Opera.
The singer’s discography includes compositions by Rossini, Gluck, Cherubini, Shostakovich, and Rachmaninoff recorded by Decca, EMI Classics, Chandos, Delos, Sony Classical Records, Deutsche Grammophon, and Erato among others. More than 10 performances featuring Ildar Abdrazakov were released on DVD by Arthaus Musik, Deutsche Grammophon, and Opus Arte.