MAHARRAM
HUSEYNOV

bass-baritone

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Baku in 1995. He began studying singing in the class of Svetlana Mirzoeva at the Rostropovich Music School in Baku. At the Osimo Academy of Lyric Art she studied with Lella Cuberli and Raina Kabaivanska. In 2016, he attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda. He perfected 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 Florez.

His early stage debuts include the roles of Morales in CARMEN; Rector in MESE MARIANO by Giordano at the Teatro La Nuova Fenice, Don Alvaro in IL VIAGGIO A REIMS at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Demon in SAN GUGLIELMO DUCA D’AQUITANIA by Pergolesi under the direction of Christophe Rousset at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi; and at the Rieti Festival as Figaro in IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA under the direction of Fabio Biondi.

In the next seasons, he will act as Dandini in LA CENERENTOLA at the Rossini Theater, in DON GIOVANNI for the OperaCamion project of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. In the role of Guglielmo in COSÌ FAN TUTTE, he toured with the Teatro San Carlo from Naples to Dubai.

On the stage of the Teatro alla Scala, he participated in the Accademia production of ALI BABA E I 40 LADRONI in the role of Ours-Kan, directed by Paolo Carignani and staged by Liliana Cavani. As Dulcamara in L’ELISIR D’AMORE for young people, later re-released at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Under the direction of Valery Gergiev, he debuted as the Lutheran Pastor in Mussorgsky’s KHOVANSHCHINA. Alongside Ambrogio Maestri, he played the role of Poet in Salieri’s PRIMA LA MUSICA POI LE PAROLE and Guccio in GIANNI SCHICCHI, directed by Woody Allen. Like Monterone in RIGOLETTO, he sings alongside Leo Nucci, under the baton of Daniel Oren.

His latest engagements include Colline in LA BOHÈME at the Modena and Piacenza theatres, and his debut at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, where he appeared in several operas, including the role of Figaro in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO; Colline in LA BOHÈME; Angelotti in TOSCA; Conte Monterone in RIGOLETTO; Jake Wallace in THE GIRL FROM THE WEST; Nilakantha in LAKME; DON GIOVANNI as Leporello and Masetto, Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’amore, Alidoro in La Cenerentola and Mandarino in Turandot.

Maharram is the winner of prestigious international competitions, such as the Odessa Sozvezdie Competition (1st Prize, 2008), the Muslim Magomaev Moscow Competition (2nd Prize, 2016), and the Sergei Leiferkus Moscow Competition (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 Award.

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