Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov was born in Algeria and studied with Franco Corelli and Ghena Dimitrova among others. Since then he has appeared at such leading opera houses as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Vienna State Operas, La Scala, Milan, the Paris Opéra and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres.
Yusif Eyvazov began the 2020/21 season singing the title role in Don Carlo at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre and Manrico (Il trovatore) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. He was subsequently heard as Cavaradossi (Tosca) at the Vienna State Opera and at the Teatro Real in Madrid as well as Des Grieux (Manon Lescaut) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and as Calaf (Turandot) at the Arena di Verona.
During the 2019/20 season he was acclaimed as Calaf and Herman (The Queen of Spades) at the Met and was also heard in the house’s prestigious New Year’s Eve Gala under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He made his house debut as Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and returned to the Vienna State Opera for Manrico. During the summer of 2020 he gave a series of concerts with Anna Netrebko that included appearances at the Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, the Arena di Verona, the Circus Maximus in Rome, Congress Square in Ljubljana and at the Grafenegg and Salzburg Festivals. In Salzburg they performed an all-Tchaikovsky programme.
Past engagements have included Dick Johnson (La fanciulla del West) in New York, Don Alvaro (La forza del destino) in London, the title role in Andrea Chénier in Vienna and Milan and Canio (Pagliacci) for Los Angeles Opera.
At the start of the 2017/18 season Deutsche Grammophon released a double CD, Romanza, in which Yusif Eyvazov appears alongside Anna Netrebko. In the autumn of 2017 the couple set off on an extended tour of Asia and Australia that included concerts in Dubai, Tokyo, Nanjing, Seoul, Melbourne and Sydney. Other concerts have taken Yusif Eyvazov to Monte-Carlo, Moscow, Minsk, London and Salzburg, while he has additionally appeared with Anna Netrebko in Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Lima, Buenos Aires and elsewhere as part of a tour of Latin America.
