Yusif Eyvazov Tenor

Season 23/24 Artist

Yusif Eyvazov is a regular guest at the most prestigious opera houses and Festivals in the world, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, and Metropolitan Opera, New York. 

Recent highlights include Dick Johnson (La Fanciulla del West), Hermann (The Queen of Spade) and Calaf (Turandot) at Metropolitan Opera New York, Don Alvaro (La Forza del destino) at Royal Opera House, the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Calaf, Canio (Paillasse) and Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana) at the Arena di Verona, Des Grieux (Manon Lescaut) at Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Monte-Carlo Opera, Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera) at Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur) at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Radamès (Aida) at Teatro Real in Madrid, Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca) at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Zurich Opera and Metropolitan Opera, Manrico (Il Trovatore) at Royal Opera House, as well as the title-role in Andrea Chénier at La Scala. 

For the 2023/24 season, he portrays Radamès and Don Carlo at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Des Grieux in Vienna Staatsoper, Calaf at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Wiesbaden and at La Scala, and Mario Cavaradossi at Royal Opera House, among others. Other engagements include concerts at the Gaveau Auditorium in Paris.

Yusif Eyvazov has taken part in many recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, including the complete recording of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, live from the Salzburg Festival, and a cross-over album Romanza, with his wife soprano Anna Netrebko.

On March 9, 2017, he was given the title of “People’s Artist of Azerbaijan”. He is the Director of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.

At the Paris Opera: Aida (Radamès), 2016; Il Trovatore (Manrico), 2016, 2018, 2023