On April 24, Ildar appears in Oman with the Zagreb Philharmonic and Italian conductor Marco Boemi at the invitation of Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said for an evening of arias and overtures from the operatic repertoire at the Royal Opera House Muscat. The program includes arias from Glinka’s Ruslan & Ludmila, Verdi’s Don Carlo and Attila, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Gounod’s Faust, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. The orchestra will also perform overtures by Glinka, Verdi, Mozart, Offenbach, and Rossini. Find tickets and a full concert program here.

Ildar appears in Moscow this Thursday to perform an evening of arias by Mozart, Rossini and Verdi in the opening concert of the Novaya Opera Theatre’s World Opera Stars series. The April 17 performance also features baritone Vasily Ladyuk and soprano and Bolshoi Youth Programme soloist Kristina Mkhitaryan, as well as the evening’s host, musical scholar, writer, and personality Svyatoslav Belza. Fabio Mastrangelo conducts the Orchestra of the Novaya Opera Theatre. Find more information and tickets here.

This August, Ildar joins Gianandrea Noseda, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Concert Chorale of New York, and soloists Erika Grimaldi, Anna Maria Chiuri, and Gregory Kunde to make his Mostly Mozart Festival debut as the bass soloist in Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9. Tickets to the performances, which take place on August 12 and 13 at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and also include Beethoven’s Consecration of the House Overture, will be available here.

ldar Abdrazakov joins Riccardo Muti, soloists Tatjana Serjan, Ekaterina Gubanova, and Francesco Meli, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, the Choir of the Teatro Real, and the Community Choir of Madrid on April 14 for a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Madrid’s Teatro Real. The event, a collaboration between the venue and the El Greco Foundation, commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of the master painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. A performance will also take place at Toledo’s Santa Iglesia Catedral Primada on April 12, as part of events commemorating El Greco in that city, where the artist lived for much of his life.

Of Ildar’s performance of the Requiem in October 2013 with Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which was presented in celebration of Verdi’s bicentennial season and webcast live worldwide, the Chicago Tribune wrote, “Abdrazakov plumbed the cavernous depths of Verdi’s writing for low male voice; he was imposing in everything he sang.” Ildar’s 2009 live recording of the Requiem with Muti and the CSO won two Grammy Awards.