She studied singing, piano, and conducting at the Prague Conservatory and participated in masterclasses with Mietta Sighele and Veriano Lucchetti in Riva del Garda, continuing her studies at the Opera Studio in Bologna. She won the competition “Young Prague Singers” in 2003 a Prague. In 2005, she represented the Czech Republic as conductor at the Expo in Japan. In 2012, Zuzana Marková won second prize at the Ernst Häfliger International Competition in Switzerland.
Among her early debuts are Grimaldi’s Salomé with the Festival della Valle d’Itria; Tutino’s Senso at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Jitka in Smetana’s Dalibor, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Micaela in Carmen at the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre. She has sung in most prestigious stages worldwide, such as Opernhaus Zürich, Bolshoi Theatre, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro La Fenice, Arena di Verona, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper in Dresden, Atlanta Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Theatre Capitole du Toulouse, Staatsoper in Berlin, Opéra de Paris, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Royal Opera House, Suntory hall in Tokyo.
Her roles range from the bel canto repertoire (Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula, I Puritani, Zoraida di Granata, Anna Bolena, Don Pasquale, Gianni di Parigi) to Verdi’s repertoire (Rigoletto, La Traviata, Luisa Miller), to finally mention Elena in Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Massenet ‘s Manon, Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) Adès’ Powder her face, Sauguet ‘s Les Caprices de Marianne, Krenek’s Das Geheime Königreich, Zemlinsky‘s Traumgörge.
In the fall of 2022, she took part in Andrea Bocelli’s tour, where she also performed at his concert at the O2 Arena in Prague in 2024.
She worked with conductors such as M.W.Chung, Fabio Luisi, Nicola Luisotti, Guillaume Tourniaire, Paolo Arrivabeni, Emmanuel Villaume, Jonathan Webb, Eun Sun Kim, and directors such as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Daniele Abbado, Hugo de Ana, Simon Stone.
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“[…] la soprano Zuzana Markovà est assurément une Marianne évoquant celle à laquelle on pense en lisant Musset. La clarté de sa diction et la précision de son émission concourent à lui en donner le caractère, et si l’on regrette des aigus un peu durs, on peut aussi les entendre comme l’incapacité du personnage à aimer vraiment.”
Fabrice Malkani, ForumOpera.com
“Convince la Elisabeth quasi spaurita di Zuzana Markova, la quale ha dalla sua mezzi vocali importanti ed una tecnica impeccabile, oltre che un’intelligenza interpretativa non comune.”
Alessandro Cammarano, OperaClick
“Frizzante e spigliato l’Oscar del soprano Zuzana Marková, giovane interprete verdiana, la cui voce scivola con sicurezza nelle peripezie canore Un ballo in maschera del personaggio en travesti, e la cui grazia francese ricorre per tutta l’opera ad alleggerire il tono tragico della vicenda (“Volta la terrea fronte alle stelle”).”
Elisabetta Ragusa, GB OPERA
“Zuzana Markova démontre à nouveau la maestria technique et interprétative qui nous avait ébloui dans La Traviata sur la même scène. Belle à voir et bonne actrice, elle conserve au personnage sa noblesse intrinsèque, en dépit d’une image de grande bourgeoise plus digne de Marcel Aymé que d’Alfred de Musset, et, cerise sur le gâteau, sa diction du français est excellente!”
Maurice Salles, ForumOpera.com
“La distribution réunie à Metz est dominée par la soprano colorature tchèque Zuzana Markovà, Marianne gracieuse et distante qui se joue des aigus stratosphériques écrits pour Lily Pons.”
Gérard Condé, Avant-Scène Opéra