Maharram Huseynov

The Baku-born bass Maharram Huseynov began his vocal training at the Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich Music School in his home city, and later studied in Italy at the Accademia d’Arte Lirica in Osimo with Lella Cuberli and Raina Kabaivanska. In 2016 he participated in the Accademia Rossiniana ‘Alberto Zedda’ and from 2017 to 2019 he was a member of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, working with Renato Bruson. He has also participated in masterclasses with Ildar Abdrazakov, Juan Diego Flórez, Tom Krause, Bernadette Manca di Nissa and Galina Vishnevskaya.

At La Scala, Milan, his appearances have included Ours-Kan in Cherubini’s Ali Baba e i 40 ladroni, Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore), Pastor in Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Guccio (Gianni Schicchi) and appearances alongside Ambrogio Maestri in Salieri’s Prima la musica e poi le parole and alongside Leo Nucci as Monterone in Rigoletto.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included performances as Banco (Macbeth) at the Teatro Regio in Turin, as Escamillo (Carmen) and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Bolshoi Theatre and in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem under Riccardo Muti in Philadelphia, Chicago and Paris, and this summer makes his Salzburg Festival debut in this work.

Previous festival appearances have included his debut at the Verbier Festival in 2025, King of Egypt (Aida) at the Arena di Verona, Glinka’s song cycle Farewell to St Petersburg at Stars of the White Nights and Don Alvaro (Il viaggio a Reims) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

He has also performed at the Las Palmas Opera and at the Teatro Rossini and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and since 2021 has been a regular guest at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, where he has sung roles such as Falstaff, Attila and Guillaume Tell, Colline (La bohème), Jake Wallace (La fanciulla del West), Nilakantha (Lakmé), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Philip II (Don Carlo), Lord Gualtiero (I puritani) and Selim (Il turco in Italia), and in Rubinstein’s The Demon.

Maharram Huseynov has won prizes at several renowned competitions, including first prize at the Sozvezdie Competition in Odessa and second prize at the Muslim Magomaev Competition in Moscow. In 2020 he was awarded the Presidential Prize by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.