BIOGRAPHY
Born in Baku in 1995, he began studying singing in the class of Svetlana Mirzoeva at the Rostropovich School of Music in Baku. At the Academy of Lyric Art in Osimo she studied with Lella Cuberli and Raina Kabaivanska. In 2016, he attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda. He furthered his studies at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala with Renato Bruson. He also participates in master classes with Galina Vishnevskaya, Tom Kraus, Bernadette Manca di Nassa, Ildar Abdrazakov and Juan Diego Flórez.
Maharram is a winner of prestigious international competitions, such as the Sozvezdie Competition in Odessa (1st Prize, 2008), the Muslim Magomaev Competition in Moscow (2nd Prize, 2016) and the Sergei Leiferkus Competition in Moscow (finalist, 2019). As a soloist, he has participated in the Mstislav Rostropovic Festival, the Gabala Festival, the Follonica Festival and the Uzeir Hajibeyli Festival. In 2020, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan awarded him the Presidential Prize.
On the stage of the Teatro alla Scala, he took part in Ali Baba e i 40 ladroni, conducted by Paolo Carignani and staged by Liliana Cavani. As Dulcamara in L’elisir d amore for young people, later revived at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Under the direction of Valery Gergiev, he made his debut as the Lutheran Pastor in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina. With Ambrogio Maestri, he sang the role of the Poet in Salieri’s Prima la musica poi le parole and Guccio in Gianni Schicchi, directed by Woody Allen. As Monterone in Rigoletto he sings alongside Leo Nucci, under the baton of Daniel Oren.
His past engagements include Dandini in La Cenerentola, at the Teatro Rossini, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, with which he toured with the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, to Dubai; Colline in La Bohème, at the theatres of Modena and Piacenza, and his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, where he has sung in several operas, including the role of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro); Colline (la bohème); Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore) Falstaff (Falstaff) Jake Wallace (Fanciulla del West) Nilakantha (Lakmé); Guillaume Tell (Guillaume tell); Demon (The demon); Leporello and Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Filippo II (Don Carlo), Lord Gualtiero (I Puritani), Attila (Attila), Mustafá (L’italiana in Algeri), Selim (Il turco in Italia), who also sang it in 2024 in Italy, in Rovigo and Ravenna.
He made his debut in Spain, at the Burgos Cathedral under the baton of Miguel Pérez-Sierra and with artists such as Piotr Beczala with Verdi’s Requiem, which he also did in Oviedo in April 2024. In March 2025 he sang Escamillo in Carmen at Las Palmas Opera.
In autumn 2024 he also sang Verdi’s Requiem in Philadelphia and Paris, with Maestro Riccardo Muti.
Among his upcoming engagements we can highlight his debut in the Verbier festival this July with the mezzosoprano Ekaterina Semenchuk with the Shostakovich Symphony Nº14. Also, his debut at the Teatro Regio di Torino as Alidoro in Cenerentola.