Elchin Azizov
Elchin Azizov is an Azerbaijani opera baritone. From 1992 to 2001, he was a member of the Parni iz Baku team of the Russian TV show KVN. Since 2008, he has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
Biography
Azizov was born in 1975, in Baku. He studied at the Azerbaijan State [University of Culture and Arts] and obtained his diploma as a movie stage director. He continued his studies at the opera studio at the Baku Music Academy, and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Thereafter, he was a member of Galina Vishnevskaya's Opera Centre in Moscow, with Badri Maisuradze. Since 2008, Azizov has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.In 2015, Azizov was expected to make his debut at both Metropolitan Opera in New [York City] as Ibn-Hakia in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Opéra de Montréal as Nabucco in Verdi's Nabucco.