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Conductor
Ayyub Guliyev
PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR OF THE AZERBAIJAN STATE ACADEMIC OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE
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Upcoming Past
Jul 2025
29.
19:00
19:00
Opera Gala Concert
Gabala International Music Festival
Aug 2025
1.
19:00
19:00
Ayyub Guliyev, Conductor
Eldar Aliev, Stage Director
Aug 2025
2.
14:00
14:00
Ayyub Guliyev, Conductor
Eldar Aliev, Stage Director
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Jun 2025
26.
19:00
19:00
Opera Gala Concert
Azerbaijan State Philharmonic
Jun 2025
25.
19:00
19:00
2024-2025 Season Closing Concert
Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre Baku National Park
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Biography Highlights
Upcoming
Don Giovanni and Tosca at the Latvian National Opera and new production of Pique Dame, Un ballo in maschera, Traviata, Turandot at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Concerts with Orquestra Sinfonica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro and Orquestra Simfônica do Theatro da Paz in Belém, Brazil, the opening of the new NCPR hall in Beijing with the orchestra of the China National Ballet, performanaces at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts, Liuzhou Cultural Arts Center, Yulin Cultural Arts Center and the Guangzhou Opera House. Symphony concerts with the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra, the Georgian Sinfonietta, Bilkent and Presidential State Symphony Orchestras in Turkey, and the State Symphony Orchestra of Evgeniy Svetlanov, among others. Symphonic concert in the frame of the Uzeyir Hajibeyov International Music Festival with the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra as well Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Mozart Requiem.
Recent
Symphonic concerts with Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Georgia State Chamber Orchestra Georgian Sinfonietta, Zagreb Philharmonic, Bilkent and Presidential State Symphony Orchestras (Turkey), Sinfonia Varsovia and International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra. La Traviata, Don Giovanni at the Latvian National Opera, Nabucco at Bucharest National Opera Theatre, Rigoletto, I Pagliacci, Nabucco, L’elisir d’amore, Aida with Tatar State Opera, Aida at the National Theatre Novi Sad, over 50 titles among which La Bohème, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Aida, Rigoletto, La Traviata, L' elisir d' amore, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cavalleria Rusticana, Carmen, Eugene Onegin, Pique Dame, Tsar’s Bride, Prince Igor, Aleko, as well as ballets Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Sleeping beauty, Petrushka, Firebird and Daphnis et Chloé at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian nights) by Fikret Amirov at the Al Mayassa Theatre in Doha, Qatar, Mariinsky Theatre and the Bolshoi Theatre
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Borodin's "Polovtsian dances" - Slovak Philharmonic
Polovtsian dances
Borodin's "Polovtsian dances" - Slovak Philharmonic
Polovtsian dances
Mozart "Symphony No. 35 in D Major "Haffner", K. 385"
Symphony No. 35 (Haffner)
Mozart "Symphony No. 35 in D Major "Haffner", K. 385"
Symphony No. 35 (Haffner)
Piotr Tchaikovsky "Waltz of the Flowers"
The valse of Flowers
Piotr Tchaikovsky "Waltz of the Flowers"
The valse of Flowers
Ayyub Guliyev conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Ayyub Guliyev conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Reviews & Press
International Lutosławski Youth Orchestra
Ungeachtet dessen wird unter der Leitung von Ayyub Guliyev ausgelassen musiziert, der es beweglich, aber effizient versteht, Tempi und Klang zu balancieren.
- Kilian Scholla , Tagesspiegel
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Tcahikovsky - Capriccio Italien, Op. 45, Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, Stravinsky - Firebird Suite
Conducted by maestro Ayyub Guliyev from Azerbaijan, "Rachmaninoff Celebrates 150" had a Russian theme overall, starting with Tchaikovsky's sparkling Capriccio Italien and concluding with Stravinsky's awe-inspiring The Firebird Suite (1919 version)... Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite is a fiendishly difficult orchestral showpiece to pull off in concert, not least because it is so universally known and adored. That hushed chromatic opening in double basses, and then violas, demands the coolest of stage-craft nerves, and the respective RBSO sections did a fine job here of setting up the requisite magical atmosphere, with that mesmerising natural harmonic glissandi effect in the string section particularly well-executed -- a novel effect that the composer was especially proud of when he introduced it to the sophisticated fin de siècle Parisian musical scene. Then ensued the veritable eruption of the firebird and its dance and the firebird's variation, ushered in by the ubiquitously precise playing of clarinet principal Vos Vaneesorn.
- JAMES KELLER , Bangkok Post
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Mariinsky Theatre - Fikret Amirov - One Thousand and One Nights
Conductor Ayyub Guliyev, invited from Baku, is well acquainted with the score and skillfully reveals all its merits. His great achivement is making the Russian orchestra sound with no "accent", while performing Azerbaijani music.
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The orchestra under Ayyub Guliyev sounded emotionally rich, musicians were able to clearly convey Amirov's folklore intonations, not previously very familiar to them.
At the premiere Amirov's melodic music, with a national identity, sounded expressive and powerful thanks to the to the guest conductor from Baku Ayyub Guliyev.
