Azat Abbasov

Abbasov Azat Zinnät ulı ( [IPA|ʌˈbɑsəf ʌˈzɑt zi:nˈnæt uˈlɯ] ; Cyrillic: Аббасов Азат Зиннәт улы; Russian Абба́сов Аза́д (Аза́т) Зинна́тович, "Abbasov Azad (Azat) Zinnatovich"; (1925 - 2006 October 11) was a Tatar opera singer (lyric-dramatic tenor). People's Artist of the USSR (1977).

Abbasov was born in 1925 in Alabuga. He graduated from Kazan Aviation Technical School and worked at the "Kazan Helicopters" plant as a designer. In 1944, when the friend of Abbasovs' family, Tatar composer Salix Säydäş advised him to devote himself to professional singing, Azat entered the Tatar National Opera Studio within the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated from the conservatory in 1950 and returned to Kazan. In 1950s-1990s he was a soloist of Kazan-based Musa Cälil Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Abbasov performed more than 100 parts. Major parts were Cälil, Tüläk ("Cälil", "Tülär and Susılu" by Näcip Cihanov), Samat ("Samat" by Xösnulla Wäliulllin), Alfredo Gérmont ("La traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi), Sergey ("Katerina Izmaylova" by Dmitry Shostakovich).

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