On 23 May 2014, the Novaya Opera’s leading mezzo-soprano Margarita Nekrasova celebrated her birthday. In almost two decades at the Novaya Opera she has sung Konchakovna in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Azucena in Verdi’s Il trovatore, Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Elizabeth in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Fenena in Verdi’s Nabucco, and Bonny Spring in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden. She has participated in the Novaya Opera’s numerous concerts, tours and recordings. The singer has performed on the world’s prestigious venues: La Scala, Teatro Real de Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Deutsche Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Opéra National de Lyon, Royal Albert Hall in London, the Festival in Aix-en-Provence; She has worked with the conductors Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Petrenko, and Kent Nagano and has participated in productions by Guy Cassiers, Eimuntas Nekrošius, Peter Stein, Liliana Cavani, Yuri Lyubimov, Dmitry Chernyakov, Achim Freyer.