Slávka Zámečníková

The soprano Slávka Zámečníková has been one of the most remarkable talents in her field since her successes at the state operas in Vienna and Berlin, at the Opéra de Paris, at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden and as a prizewinner at various competitions.
One of the highlights of the new 2024/25 season is her role debut as Gilda ("Rigoletto") at the Opéra de Paris. She will make her house debut as Musetta ("La bohème") at the Semperoper Dresden. At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, she will appear as Daria in "Prima la Mamma!" and at the Vienna State Opera, the sought-after artist will make her debut as Pamina in a new production of "Die Zauberflöte". She will also be back on stage there as Susanna.
Highlights of recent seasons include her role debut as Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni") under the direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera and her interpretation of the title role in "L'incoronazione di Poppea" at the State Operas in Vienna and Berlin. Slávka Zámečníková made her acclaimed debut at the Opéra de Paris in Musetta ("La bohème"). At the Vienna State Opera, she was celebrated as Donna Anna, Micaëla ("Carmen"), Sophie ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Norina ("Don Pasquale"), Nannetta ("Falstaff") and Servilia ("La clemenza di Tito"). In San Francisco, she appeared as Adina ("L'elisir d'amore"). In Wiesbaden, she made her role debut as Contessa in Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro" as part of the International May Festival. Further highlights of her career were Nannetta under Zubin Mehta at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Dircé in "Medée". She returned to the Prague National Theatre as Sophie in "Werther".
Concert engagements have taken Slávka Zámečníková to the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Czech Philharmonic, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Hvorostovsky Festival in Krasnoyarsk and the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Festival in Sochi with Mozart's Requiem.
In the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons, she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Berlin State Opera and a scholarship holder of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation. Here she celebrated her first successes as the First Lady ("Die Zauberflöte"), Miss Jessel ("Turn of the Screw"), Falke ("Die Frau ohne Schatten") and Flora ("La traviata"). She made her debut as Ilia in the new production of "Idomeneo" at the Wiesbaden International May Festival.
Slávka Zámečníková's concert repertoire includes the 2nd and 4th symphonies by Gustav Mahler, which she has sung in a ballet production at the Vienna State Opera and at the Prague Spring Festival, "Four Last Songs" by Richard Strauss, the Coronation Mass by Franz Liszt, masses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" and Joseph Haydn's "The Creation" and "The Seasons".
The soprano first completed her vocal training at the conservatory in Bratislava and received her master's degree at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin in Anna Samuil's singing class. She has completed master classes with Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Brigitte Fassbaender, Deborah Polaski, Patricia McCaffrey, Francisco Araiza, Neil Shicoff, Thomas Quasthoff, Gregory Lamar, Luciana D'Intino, Júlia Várady and Wolfram Rieger.