Huseynagha Hajibababeyov


Huseynagha Sultan oghlu Hajibababeyov was an Azerbaijani opera singer and People's Artist of Azerbaijan. He was the grandfather of Azerbaijani jazz composer and pianist Salman Gambarov.

Biography

Huseynagha Hajibababeyov was born in 1898 in Shamakhy. He had a soft-tone voice and performed mugham and folk songs. From 1910 he sang in the Nijat Society choir in Baku, and from 1913 performed with the Shafa theater group. In 1916, he joined the Azerbaijani music troupe and played mainly female characters in the first Azerbaijani mugham operas, touring cities of the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Iran. Since 1920, he was a soloist of the Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theatre and performed the parts of Shah Ismayil, Garib, Khosrov, and other parts in operas by European, Georgian, Russian, Armenian composers in the original languages. In 1928, he graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory where his teacher was Russian opera singer Nikolai Speransky. In 1938, Hajibababeyov was awarded the title of the People's Artist of Azerbaijan.

Roles played

Huseynagha Hajibababeyov is known for the following roles:
RoleTitleAuthor
KaramAsli and KaramUzeyir Hajibeyov
AsgarThe Cloth PeddlerUzeyir Hajibeyov
Shah Ismayil
Gulzar		Shah IsmayilMuslim Magomayev
AlyarNargizMuslim Magomayev
GaribAshig GaribZulfugar Hajibeyov
KhosrovKhosrov and ShirinNiyazi
SaroAnoushArmen Tigranian
Tsar BerendeiThe Snow MaidenNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
LenskyEugene OneginPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Count AlmavivaThe Barber of SevilleGioachino Rossini