Margarita Nekrasova
The Russian mezzo-soprano Margarita Nekrasova has been a member of the Kolobov Novaya Opera in Moscow since 1994, and most recently appeared there as Flora (La traviata), Governess (The Queen of Spades), Konchakovna (Prince Igor) and Herodias (Salome).
Her recent and future engagements include Filipyevna (Eugene Onegin) at the Komische Oper Berlin, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Zurich Opera House and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Amelfa in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel at the Komische Oper and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Beroe in Henze’s The Bassarids at the Komische Oper, Hostess of the Inn (The Fiery Angel) at the Opéra National de Lyon, Governess at the Salzburg Festival and the Komische Oper and Nurse (Boris Godunov) with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
She has also sung Filipyevna at the Berlin State Opera and at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Madame Podtochina (The Nose) in Madrid, Aix-en-Provence and Lyon, Alkonost in The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh at the Dutch National Opera and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Nurse at the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Berlin State Opera, in Lyon and in Valencia, First Norn (Götterdämmerung) at the Berlin State Opera, the BBC Proms and La Scala, Milan under Daniel Barenboim and Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Other roles that she has performed onstage include Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Angel in Anton Rubinstein’s The Demon, Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Amneris (Aida), Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Erda (Das Rheingold), Marfa (Khovanshchina) and Azucena (Il trovatore). She has also sung in Mozart and Verdi’s settings of the Requiem and in Rossini’s Stabat Mater. She has worked with conductors including Vladimir Jurowski, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Muti, Mariss Jansons and Stanislav Kochanovsky.
Her discography includings the live recording ‘Novaya Opera’ in Carnegie Hall and romances by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff under Evgeny Kolobov.
Margarita Nekrasova has won several awards, including at the international Glinka Competition and at the international Tenor Viñas Competition.