Today the famous opera singer, the People's artist of Bashkortostan, the adviser to the Head of Bashkortostan on culture and art, the soloist of the Mariinsky theater Askar Abdrazakov graduates his 50th anniversary. Also it's the 25th anniversary of his career. 

Being very young artist he embarked on a series of wins at international competitions at which he took the 1st  prizes and Grand Prix. He was the first male singer to win the Grand Prix at the Maria Callas Competition in Athens in 1995.

He went on to have contracts at the world’s great opera houses, among them the Bolshoi Theatre, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Metropolitan Opera, the Washington Opera, La Scala, Barcelona’s Teatre del Liceu, NHK Hall in Tokyo, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Megaron Hall in Athens, Parma’s Teatro Regio, Florence’s Teatro Comunale and the Teatro Regio and Teatro Massimo in Turin.

Among the outstanding conductors with which the singer has worked are Valery Gergiev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Michel Plasson, Plácido Domingo, Marcello Viotti, Bruno Bartoletti, Lorin Maazel, Bertrand de Billy, Oleg Caetani, Maurizio Arena, Daniele Gatti, Alexander Anisimov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Daniel Oren, Mark Ermler, Jesús López-Cobos, Nello Santi, Mark Elder and Ralf Weikert.

His stage partners include Anna Netrebko, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Mirella Freni, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
The singer has a vast repertoire including the roles of Boris (Boris Godunov), Attila (Attila), Filippo II (Don Carlo), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Banco (Macbeth), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Don Quichotte (Don Quichotte), Méphistophélès (Faust), Mefistofele (Mefistofele), Kochubei (Mazepa) and Don Giovanni and Leporello (Don Giovanni) among others.

He gives an attention to Bashkortostan, his Motherland. He organazes a lot of charitable concerts. Also he initiated a children supporting project not so long ago.  

Our web-portal congratulates Mr. Abdrazakov and wishes a lot of inspiration and upcoming success.