Margarita Izvorska-Yelizarieva

Art director 

Honoured Artist of Republic Belarus

Kandidat of philosophy, professor

1969 – graduated from the Bulgarian State conservatoire (Sofia), music theory. 1974 – graduated from the St.Petesburg (Leningrad) State N.Rimsky-Korsakov conservatoire as musical producer.

1974-1994 – stage-manager: produced more than 20 operas in theatres of Belarus and Bulgaria, including: “The Magic Flute” and “Don Giovanni” by W.A.Mozart, “Il Trovatore”, “Rigoletto”, “Don Carlos” and “Sheakspeariana” (based on Otello-Macbeth-Falstaf) by G.Verdi, “Pagliacci” by R.Leoncavallo, “Il barbiere di Seviglia” by G.Rossini, “Eugene Onegin” and “Iolanthe” by P.Tchaikovsky, “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Katherina Izmailova)” by D.Shostakovitch, “The Wolf and  The Seven Kids” by A.Vladigerov and others.

Since 2002 – art director of Belarussian opera. In 2003 produced “Khovanschina” by M.Mussorgsky, in 2005 produced “Carmen” by G. Bizet, "The note of a madman" by a contemporary Belarusian composer V. Kuznetsov and "Rita or a Piracy Triangle" by a foreign classical composer G. Donicetti.

Margarita Izvorska has been working as the lecturer of the Belarussian State Academy of Music for the last 30 years: since 1993 as the senior lecturer of the training for opera department, since 2002 – the professor of the choreography department: lectures on history and theory of music, history and theory of drama, acting technique, opera production. Trains the young artists: in 2003 refounded the probation troupe by the Belarussian opera.