• Honoured Artist of Russia
• Recipient of the special prize “For the best performance of an aria by Mascagni” at the XVIII International Valsesia MusicaCompetition (Varallo, Italy, 2002)
• Recipient of the 1st prize and special prize “For the best performance of a work by Rimsky-Korsakov” at the VII International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2006)
• Prize-winner at the VI International Elena Obraztsova Competition (St Petersburg, 2007)
• Recipient of the 1st prize at the All-Russian Schubert Competition (Moscow)
Anna Markarova was born in Rostov on Don. Graduated from the Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatoire (class of Professor Khudoverdova). Trained at the Stuttgart Akademie under Professor Ingeborg Wamser (Germany).
Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers from 2006.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company since 2010.
Roles she has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Princess Clarice (The Love for Three Oranges)
Lyubka (Semyon Kotko)
Korobochka (Dead Souls in concert)
Grusha the Gypsy (The Enchanted Wanderer)
Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Abigail (Nabucco)
Odabella (Attila)
Soprano (stage version of Verdi's Requiem)
Elisabeth de Valois (Don Carlo)
Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
Aida (Aida)
Leonora (La forza del destino),
Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)
Leonora (Il trovatore)
Amelia (Un ballo in maschera)
Prima Donna, Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Her repertoire also includes: Liza (The Queen of Spades), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Yaroslavna (Prince Igor), Turandot (Turandot), Tosca (Tosca), Abigaille (Nabucco), Eboli (Don Carlo), Carmen (Carmen) and Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk).
The singer’s concert repertoire includes the soprano roles in Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana.
Anna Markarova has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company throughout Russia and abroad. Regularly performs at the Easter Festival and at the Stars of the White Nights music festival.
She has appeared at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Philharmonic Hall in Dublin, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Gulbenkian Centre in Lisbon and in various towns throughout France, Spain, Switzerland, Finland and Austria.
Under the baton of Valery Gergiev she has appeared at the Red Sea Festival in Israel as Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana in concert) and Cassandre and Didon (Les Troyens).
In December 2010 together with Ildar Abdrazakov she appeared in a recording of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Attila for the Mariinsky label (conducted by Valery Gergiev).
In the 2011-2012 season together with the Mariinsky Opera Company she has taken part in festival in Mikkeli (Finland) and the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam (Netherlands).