Hajibababeyov Huseinaga

Huseynagha Sultan oghlu Hajibababeyov (; 19 May 1898 – 10 November 1972) was an Azerbaijani opera singer. He was awarded the title, People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR. He was the grandfather of jazz composer and pianist, Salman Gambarov.

Biography Huseynagha Hajibababeyov was born in 1898 in Shamakhy, Russian Empire.

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 (Shah Ismayil by Muslim Magomayev), Garib (Ashig Garib by Zulfugar Hajibeyov), Khosrov (Khosrov and Shirin by Niyazi), 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 Artists of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Roles played Huseynagha Hajibababeyov is known for the following roles: Role Title Author Karam Asli and Karam Uzeyir Hajibeyov Asgar The Cloth Peddler Uzeyir Hajibeyov Shah IsmayilGulzar Shah Ismayil Muslim Magomayev Alyar Nargiz Muslim Magomayev Garib Ashig Garib Zulfugar Hajibeyov Khosrov Khosrov and Shirin Niyazi Saro Anoush Armen Tigranian Tsar Berendei The Snow Maiden Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Lensky Eugene Onegin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Count Almaviva The Barber of Seville Gioachino Rossini