Askar Abdrazakov (Bass)

Askar Abdrazakov (bass) - winner of international competitions, People's Artist of Bashkortostan, was awarded the Gold Medal and Prize nominal Irina Arkhipova Foundation "for outstanding achievement in the performing arts in the last decade of XX century" (2001). From September 2010 to October 2011 he was Minister of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Askar Abdrazakov graduated from the Ufa State Institute of Arts (Professor, Honored Worker of Culture of Russia MG Murtazin). From 1991 he was a soloist of the Ufa Opera House and graduate of the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. Tchaikovsky (class of People's Artist of the USSR, Professor Irina Arkhipova).

Singer - winner of the All-Union Competition. Glinka (1991), the International Vocal Competition Unisatransnet in Pretoria (South Africa, Grand Prix, 1994), International Competition. Chaliapin (Kazan; I Prize, 1994), International Competition. Maria Callas in Athens (Greece, Grand Prix, 1995), International Competition. Rachmaninoff in Moscow (I Prize, 1998).

In 1995 he made his debut at the Bolshoi A.Abdrazakova Russia in batches of Don Basilio and Khan Konchak. Significant milestone in the creative singing career was the world premiere of the Slonim "Visions of Ivan the Terrible" (Samara), conducted by the Rostropovich, in which the actor performed the role of King John. In this setting, the singer announced himself as a brilliant performer of contemporary music. The Paris Theatre du Chatelet Askar Abdrazakov sang bosses in Stravinsky's opera "The Nightingale", was made with the orchestra BBC BBC by the famous composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Spektal been featured in major European cities: Brussels, London, Rome, Seville, Berlin. In April-May 1996, appeared as Gremin in the production of "Eugene Onegin" at the opera theater im.Dzh.Verdi in Trieste (Italy). Singer in great demand abroad, which performs the principal roles in productions of the leading opera houses: a Verona Arena, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, Chatelet in Paris, Real Madrid, the Liceo in Barcelona and the other (in Toulon - Party of Faust and Mephistopheles in Gounod, in Lucca, Bergamo and Limoges - Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera, in Valencia - Priam in the "Trojan" Berlioz). Askar Abdrazakov became the first singer from Bashkortostan, have achieved such fame and popularity abroad.

The actor acted in opera productions and concerts in the Large and Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and participated in the festivals "Irina Arkhipova is ...", held in different cities of Russia, as well as festivals in Bregenz (Austria), Santander (Spain), Rovelli (Italy), the Arena di Verona (Italy), Vladimir Spivakov in Colmar (France). Collaborated with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Mstislav Rostropovich, L. Maazel, P. Domingo, V. Fedoseyev, M. Ermler, Claudio Abbado, M. Plasson and others.

His repertoire - the leading roles bass repertoire, among them: Boris ("Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky), Kochubey ("Mazeppa" by Tchaikovsky), Philip II («Don Carlos" by Verdi), Zachary ("Nabucco" by Verdi), Don Quixote ( "Don Quixote" by Massenet), Mephistopheles ("Faust" by Gounod) and Mephistopheles ("Mephisto" Boito) Dositheus, Khovansky ("Khovanshchina" by Mussorgsky), Don Giovanni and Leporello ("Don Giovanni" by Mozart), Grameen ("Eugene Onegin "Tchaikovsky) and others.

November 1, 2011 solo concert Askar Abdrazakov, organized by Irina Arkhipova. In December 2011, the singer invited the jury XXIV International Glinka Vocal Competition.

Discography Askar Abdrazakov represented roles in "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh" by Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Power of Destiny" and "Nabucco" by Verdi, Verdi's Requiem, Mahler's Eighth Symphony.