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Bisera
Chadlovska

Macedonia’s pioneering female conductor, shaping more than two decades of performances across the operatic, ballet and symphonic stage.

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Black and white portrait of conductor Bisera Chadlovska holding a baton
Conductor · Skopje, Macedonia
20+years of artistic work
50+opera & ballet titles
2006principal conductor
2022Ohrid Summer music selector
Orchestra seen from above with Bisera Chadlovska conducting from the centre
In performanceA career built across opera, ballet and the concert stage.

On the podium

Selected engagements

Bisera Chadlovska conducting an orchestra on stage

Biography

Authority without spectacle. Precision with emotion.

Born in Skopje, Bisera Chadlovska graduated in orchestral conducting from the Faculty of Music in 2001, in the class of Professor Fimcho Muratovski, and continued postgraduate studies at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia with maestro Plamen Djouroff.

Her professional work at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet began in 2002. After working as chorus master and assistant conductor, she conducted her first premiere, Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, at Skopje Summer in 2005. She became principal conductor in 2006 and served as artistic director of the Opera from 2017 to 2020.

Her repertoire spans more than 50 operas and ballets, symphonic concerts, premieres and works by Macedonian composers. She has worked with orchestras and opera companies in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Romania, and teaches at the Faculty of Music in Skopje.

“Every new score is a new challenge.”
2002Professional beginning
2005First opera premiere
2017Opera artistic director
2022Ohrid Summer selector

More than fifty works

Selected repertoire

01

Opera

Verdi · Puccini · Mozart · Rossini · Donizetti · Bizet · Leoncavallo · Mascagni · Britten

02

Ballet

Tchaikovsky · Adam · Minkus · Rimsky-Korsakov · Glazunov · Pugni · Gounod

03

Symphonic

Concert works · Oratorio · Macedonian composers · Contemporary works · Premiere performances

Selected by composer

The operatic canon

Giuseppe Verdi

La traviata · Nabucco · Rigoletto · La forza del destino · Macbeth · Aida

Giacomo Puccini

Turandot · Tosca · Madama Butterfly · La bohème

Wolfgang A. Mozart

Die Zauberflöte · Don Giovanni · Bastien und Bastienne

Gioachino Rossini

Il barbiere di Siviglia · La Cenerentola · L’italiana in Algeri

Gaetano Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor · Don Pasquale · Rita

Georges Bizet

Carmen

Broader repertoire

Stage, concert & Macedonian works

01

Opera & operetta

Pagliacci · Cavalleria rusticana · The Turn of the Screw · Die Fledermaus · Die lustige Witwe · Die Csárdásfürstin · Der Zwerg · The Old Maid and the Thief · Lo speziale · Il matrimonio segreto · Orfeo ed Euridice · Hänsel und Gretel

02

Ballet

Swan Lake · The Nutcracker · The Sleeping Beauty · Giselle · Le Corsaire · La Esmeralda · Scheherazade · Don Quixote · Raymonda · Walpurgis Night

03

Concert & musical stage

Carmina Burana · Chicago · symphonic, educational and gala concerts

04

Macedonian works & premieres

The Dragon’s Bride · Days of Macedonian Music · works by Macedonian composers · contemporary premieres

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