Anna Yelizarova, Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Anna Yelizarova (Mezzo-Soprano) has appeared in many varied roles including Carmen (title role); Dorabella (Così fan tutte); Dido (Dido and Aeneas); Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus); Olga (Eugene Onegin); Marina (Boris Godunov); Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera); Mistress Quickly (Falstaff); La Zia Principessa (Suor Angelica); Smeton (Anna Bolena); 3rd Lady (Die Zauberflöte); Flora (La Traviata); the Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors); Suzuki (Madama Butterfly); and Zita in Gianni Schicchi.

She has sung with the following companies: Opera in the Heights TX; Natchez Music Festival MS; Center City Opera PA; Bay Area Summer Opera CA; Opera Company of Brooklyn NY; Opera Manhattan NY; Long Island Opera NY; New York Lyric Opera Theater NY; Queens Opera NJ; Intermezzo Opera Festival FL; Martina Arroyo Foundation NY; Amici Opera PA; New York Opera Studio; Allegro Singers NY.

Future engagements include Dorabella in Così fan Tutte with Opera in the Heights.

Ms. Yelizarova has been heard in many concert performances including orchestra concerts with Gateway Classical Music Society, and evenings of opera scenes with Pacific Opera at Carnegie Hall and with Queens Opera in New Jersey.

She sang the role of Clarice in Caldara’s oratorio, Il giuoco del Quadriglio in several New York performance venues and was the mezzo-soprano soloist in the Pergolesi Stabat Mater on a concert tour in Hungary.

Last summer, Ms. Yelizarova was an apprentice at the Natchez Opera Festival. She was also a finalist in the 2009 Opera at Florham Violetta DuPont Vocal Competition.

Originally from Moscow, Anna Yelizarova is now an American citizen residing in the United States. Ms. Yelizarova holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in voice from the Manhattan School of Music and New Jersey City University. In Russia, she received a Bachelors Degree in Conducting from the A. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music.