Zaccaria Marques

Already as a teenager, he sang with amateur bands. He studied accounting, and soon had his voice trained, first in Juiz de Fora, then (from 1946) in Rio de Janeiro. His first job as a professional singer was in a church choir.

He started into the world of opera in 1953 as a member of the Teatro Experimental de Ópera in Rio de Janeiro. From 1956, he sang secondary parts at the Teatro Municipal, and in 1958, he got his first leading role: Rodolfo. He developed into one of Rio's (and Brazil's) foremost tenors in both opera and concert. He made guest appearances in São Paulo, at the Colón in Buenos Aires, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, in La Plata, Caracas or Santiago de Chile.

Reference 1; reference 2 (with gross mistakes): Kutsch and Riemens

Marques' appearances at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo:

La bohème on 19 August 1960, with Agnes Ayres, Lysia Demoro
Madama Butterfly on 4/9 September 1964, with Vittoria Canale, Odete Violani, Felipe Carone, Geraldo Chagas, José Perrotta
Fosca on 30 September 1973, with Ida Miccolis, Agnes Ayres, Costanzo Mascitti, Mario Rinaudo, Armando Belardi
O chalaça (by Francisco Mignone) on 4/5/6 November 1976, with Paulo Fortes, Gloria Queiroz, Alexandre Trick, Mario Tavares
Zolotoj petushok (The golden cockerel) on 21/23/25 September 1977, with Paulo Fortes, Teresa Godoy, Edmar Ferretti, Francisco Giaccheri