Lyric soprano Slávka Zámečníková, born in 1991 in Slovakia, was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Berlin State Opera (2017/2018 and 2018/2019), where she made her debut as First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Miss Jessel (Turn of the Screw), Falke (Frau ohne Schatten), Une chasseresse (Hippolyte et Arice) under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Ännchen/cover (Der Freischütz), Flora Bervoix (La Traviata) and Nanetta (Falstaff) as cover for the star soprano Nadine Sierra under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. In the season 2017/18, she also appeared in the Prague National Theatre and Slovak National Theatre as Sophie (Werther) and made her debut as Ilia (Idomeneo) in the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden within the Internationale Maifestspiele 2019. In 2020 she will make her debut at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg as Tebaldo (Don Carlo) under Christian Thielemann and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. She will also appear with Gustavo Dudamel in Beethovens 9th Symphony in Tokyo with Berliner Philharmoniker (Summer Olympics 2020) and in Rome with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
The young soprano performed in various concerts and international festivals, above all at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg under Sir Simon Rattle as Une chasseresse in Rameau´s Hippolyte et Aricie, at the “Rheingau Music Festival”, in the Konzerthaus Berlin, at the “Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern” as well as at the “Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Festival” in Sochi in the Mozart’s Requiem. She also made her debut at the “Prague Spring Festival 2018” in Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Slávka Zámečníková has already appeared on stage as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Musetta (La Bohème), Frau Fluth (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) and Woglinde (Das Rheingold) and has made appearances around the world in countries including Brasil, Australia, China, South Korea, Monaco, Norway, France, Italy, Russia, etc.
The soprano has been recently awarded Third Prize in the renowned International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Villach and Second Prize in the greatest Polish competition – the International Stanislaw Moniuszko Competition at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. She has also been awarded Second Prize in the German national competition – Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin 2018 at the Komische Oper Berlin. She received First Prizes in the International Competition Accademia Belcanto 2018 in Graz, in the International Antonín Dvořák Competition 2016 in Carlsbad, in the International Mikulas Schneider-Trnavsky Competition 2017 as well as in the International Iuventus Canti Competition 2015 in Slovakia. In the summer 2016, she received Third Prize, the Audience Award and the Daegu Opera House Award in the Otto Edelmann International Competition in Vienna as well as a Special Award of Eva-Maria Wieser in the Concorso lirico Internationale di Portofino in Italy.
Slávka Zámečníková graduated from the Bratislava Conservatory and finished her Master degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin under the tutelage of Anna Samuil. In addition, she has participated in various master-classes and workshops with renowned KS Anna Tomowa-Sintow, KS Brigitte Fassbaender, KS Francisco Araiza, Patricia McCaffrey, Neil Shicoff, Renée Morloc, Thomas Quasthoff, Gregory Lamar and Luciana D’Intino. She has also been mentored by Deborah Polaski, KS Julia Varády, Matthias Samuil and Wolfram Rieger.
Ms. Zámečníková is a scholarship recipient of the Liz Mohn Kultur- und Musikstiftung, the Junge Musiker Stiftung and the Deutschlandstipendium.
