Elchin Azizov

Elchin Azizov studied at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. The recorded working language is Azerbaijani and Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Distinctions recorded are People's Artist of Azerbaijan and Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

• Name — Elchin Azizov • Birth Name — Elchin Yashar oglu Azizov • Born — 13 August 1975 • Birthplace — Baku, Azerbaijan • Genre — Opera • Years Active — 1992–present

Azizov was born in 1975, in Baku. He studied at the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts and obtained his diploma as a movie stage director. He continued his studies at the opera studio at the Baku Music Academy (with Azad Aliyev, conductor), and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (with Richard Miller and Alessandro Misciasci). Thereafter, he was a member of Galina Vishnevskaya's Opera Centre in Moscow, with Badri Maisuradze. Since 2008, Azizov has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. In 2015, Azizov was expected to make his debut at both Metropolitan Opera in New York City as Ibn-Hakia in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Opéra de Montréal as Nabucco in Verdi's Nabucco.

He performed as Escamillo in Carmen (Galina Vishnevskaya's Opera Centre, Bolshoi Theatre), the title role in Eugene Onegin (Galina Vishnevskaya's Opera Centre, Bolshoi Theatre, and Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg), Ibn-Hakia in Iolanta, Tomsky in The Queen of Spades, Leandro in Love for Three Oranges, and Doctor Falke in Die Fledermaus (all at the Bolshoi Theatre).

Elchin Azizov is married to artist Hamida Malikova, great-granddaughter of Jalil Mammadguluzadeh and Hamida Javanshir (whom she was named after). They have one son.

The following is established of the heading itself.

Elchin Azizov is classed in the genre opera. Recorded with the occupation actor. Institutional cataloguing adds that elchin Azizov is recorded with the occupation KVN actor. It is also recorded that elchin Azizov is recorded with the occupation opera singer. Recorded as a citizen of Soviet Union. Institutional cataloguing adds that elchin Azizov is recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that elchin Azizov was born on 13 August 1975.