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"It's thrilling to walk through the rehearsal rooms and have three of the greatest bass-baritones right now rehearsing under the same roof — Bryn Terfel, Ren é Pape, Ildar Abdrazakov," said Met general manager Peter Gelb.

Taking Flight With the Met Pia Catton 2010

If opera worked like Broadway, the name on the marquee closest to Ms. Netrebko's might be fellow Russian Ildar Abdrazakov, the commanding bass and Met veteran who sings the role of Henry VIII with icy force.

A Philadelphia Son Storms the Met Pia Catton 2011

But she's playing GM Ildar Ibragimov 2656 - more than a 400 point discrepancy in their ELOs.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

The Met has similarly been grooming the bass Ildar Abdrazakov, who sang Enrico Henry VIII, but on Monday he was a youthful cipher of no particular vocal impact, rather than a scene-chewing villain.

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Anne Midgette 2011

Anna Netrebko takes the queenly title role (a specialty of Maria Callas), leading a cast that also includes such impressive talents as Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov (as Henry VIII); Marco Armiliato, the company's house specialist in things Italian, conducts.

The New Yorker newyorker.com 2011

Anna Netrebko takes on the queenly title role (a specialty of Maria Callas), leading a cast that also includes such impressive talents as Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov (as Henry VIII); Marco Armiliato, the company's house specialist in things Italian, conducts.

The New Yorker newyorker.com 2011

Anna Netrebko takes the queenly title role (a specialty of Maria Callas), leading a cast that also includes such impressive talents as Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov (as Henry VIII); Marco Armiliato, the company's house specialist in things Italian, conducts.

The New Yorker NewYorker.com 2011

Matching Netrebko in force of personality, bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov made Henry a figure of insistent romantic ardor with Giovanna and unremitting hostility with Anna.

The Seattle Times 2011

It was a frequent vehicle for Samuel Ramey; when the Metropolitan Opera mounted the work in 2010, it offered Ildar Abdrazakov, who didn't quite cut it.

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Anne Midgette 2011

Ultimately, the scenes that so often failed to ignite involved Ildar Abdrazakov as Henry and Ekaterina Gubanova, a curiously mousy Jane Seymour.

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