In 2016 Ildar Abdrazakov was awarded Casta Diva ‘Singer of the Year’ Prize for Mephistopheles in ‘Faust’, Filippo II in ‘Don Carlo’ (debut in the Bolshoi Theatre), Lindorf, Coppelius, Miracle, Dapertutto in ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’ (in Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre).
After long and fruitful work in Moscow in December 2016 Ildar Abdrazakov goes to Munich to sing Filippo II in ‘Don Carlo’ on January 15, 2017.