As an opera singer, Eva Šušková has performed on stages in Slovakia and abroad (in the Czech Republic, France, Austria, and Poland). She has performed roles such as Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Desdemona (Othello), Rusalka, Suzel (L’amico Fritz), and Fiordiligi. She has also staged performances of Arnold Schoenberg’s melodrama Pierrot Lunaire and George Benjamin’s chamber opera Into the Little Hill. On the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera, she portrayed the roles of Mercedes (Carmen), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Gertrude (The Players), and Claudine in a concert adaptation of Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s opera Mathilde de Guise (in collaboration with the Solamente Naturali ensemble conducted by Didier Talpain in 2010).
Currently, she is a valued interpreter of chamber and concert repertoire, with critics highlighting her interpretive contribution to performances of 20th-century classical music. She is also a dedicated promoter of Slovak music and, through close collaboration with composers, has become a recognized performer of contemporary music. She has participated in the world premieres of six contemporary Slovak operas written by Juraj Beneš, Víťazoslav Kubička, and Slavo Solovic.
As a soloist, she has performed at major European music festivals, such as Gaida, Lost & Found, Prague Premieres, Bratislava Music Festival, Melos-Ethos, Zempléni Fesztivál, Neuen Musik in Bamberg, Convergence, and Days of Early Music. She has collaborated with leading orchestras and ensembles, including Prague Modern, Quasars Ensemble, Solamente Naturali, the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Slovak Chamber Orchestra.
She has recorded for labels such as Brilliant Classics, Phaedra, Dynamic, as well as for Slovak Radio, the Music Fund, and Diskant. In addition to her artistic activities, she devotes herself to pedagogical work at the Department of Music Education at Comenius University in Bratislava and to organizational work, co-creating initiatives such as the “(Un)Known Music” cycle by the Albrechtina association, her own projects “Secret VOICE” and “VOICEssion,” and a children’s project called “Človekofón.”
The photograph comes from the website of Hudobné Centrum – Music Centre Slovakia.