«Mr. Eyvazov is a husky-bodied man with a voice to match. He sings with burly sound touched with a metallic glint. His big top notes have stinging power.»

Anthony Tommasini — New York Times

«…His is a darker sound, a tenor of considerably more weight, than usually heard in this role, but he commanded it well, showing a ringing, clear top and vitality in his singing.»

Eric C. Simpson- New York Classical Review

«This a tenor with a large instrument who is {…}

…Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov, as Chénier, gave one of the finest performances of his career. His voice commands the ample range and volume needed for the poet, and his singing evinced greater refinement and beauty of tone …. with registers blended skillfully and his tones emerging rounded and limpid in every phrase, enhanced by equally well-honed diction.

And Eyvazov’s not just sensitively guided, but bright, heldischem Tenor particularly impressed with its boldness that leads him twice without impairment to a high C.

{An Eyvazovs nicht eben sensibel geführtem, aber frischem, heldischem Tenor beeindruckt vor allem die Unerschrockenheit, die ihn zweimal ohne Beeinträchtigung bis zum hohen C führt.}

Eyvazov is an exciting tenor whose sound is metallic, stentorian and markedly Italianate. (He’s Azerbaijani, born in Algeria, trained in Italy.) . . . his career is beginning to take off . . .

Emotions were big. Voices were big. Husband and wife sang as if projecting to the last row of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in a house a sixth its size. You looked into singers’ gaping mouths that, in this intimate space, were like vocal black holes, as if drawing listeners’ very being inescapably {…}