Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1995, Maharram Huseynov 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, Italy, he 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 has participated in masterclasses with Galina Vishnevskaya, Tom Krause, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Ildar Abdrazakov and Juan Diego Flórez.
Huseynov is a winner of such prestigious international competitions as the Sozvezdie Competition in Odessa (first prize, 2008), the Muslim Magomaev International Vocalists Competition in Moscow (second prize, 2016) and the Sergei Leiferkus Competition in Moscow (finalist, 2019). As a soloist, he has participated in the Mstislav Rostropovich Festival, the Gabala International Music Festival, the Follonica Festival, and the Uzeir Hajibeyli International Music Festival. In 2020, he received the Presidential Prize from the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
On the stage of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, he has appeared in Alì Babà e i quaranta ladroni, conducted by Paolo Carignani and staged by Liliana Cavani and 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 baritone Ambrogio Maestri, he sang the role of the Poet in Salieri’s Prima la musica e poi le parole and Guccio in Gianni Schicchi, directed by Woody Allen. As Monterone in Rigoletto, he sang alongside baritone Leo Nucci in the title role under 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 theaters of Modena and Piacenza and his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, where he also appeared as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro); Colline; Dulcamara; Falstaff (Falstaff); Jake Wallace (La 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); and Selim (Il turco in Italia) in 2024 in Rovigo and Ravenna.
He made his debut in Spain at Burgos Cathedral as soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, under Miguel Pérez-Sierra with artists including Piotr Beczała and repeated the work in Oviedo in April 2024 and in Philadelphia and Paris under Riccardo Muti in the fall. He sang Escamillo at Las Palmas Opera in Gran Canaria in March 2025.
Among his upcoming engagements are such highlights as his debuts at the Verbier Festival in July with mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 and at the Teatro Regio di Torino as Alidoro in La Cenerentola.
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