While some doors are opening - for example, the famous singer Anna Netrebko, who has said she regrets her support for the separatists in Donetsk and her closeness to the Kremlin and has been offered ...

World-famous Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov has become the latest musician to face the consequences of the vicious anti-Russian campaign being waged by the whole imperialist propaganda machine on ...

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Recorded live in October 2013, Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov, whose "voice is massive...his singing...piping hot, precise and stinging" (San Jose Mercury News) is Mefistofele. In his staged role debut ...

The mark of a good singer is to hear his or her sound project in front of them and move past the stage. Ildar Abdrazakov is a master. His sound emanates in front of his entire body, and immediately ...