Nikola Márová

Between 1990 and 1998 she studied at the Dance Conservatoire in Prague. After graduating from the Dance Conservatoire she started to work at the National Theatre as a ballet chorus member. In 2001 she received a soloist contract. Since 2006/7 season she is the first soloist. Her great artistic opportunity was pas de troix in Swan Lake, Maria in The Nutcracker, Olga in Onegin, Raymonda in the ballet of the same name, and Bianca in The Taming Of The Shrew, solos in Americana II, Myrtha in the ballet Giselle, Odetta/Odilia in Swan Lake and the Christmas Fairy in the ballet The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol. She has also performed as a soloist in Kylián’s or Petr Zuska’s choreographies. In 2002 Nikola Márová won the Philip Morris Ballet Flower Award. She appears at the Prague State Opera in a title role in Prokofiev’s Cinderella and as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (Thalia Prize 2007) and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera.

Photo: Karel Kouba