Eva Zaïcic

In 2018 Eva Zaïcik won the award Révélation Artiste lyrique at the Victoires de la musique classique; she was also a prize-winner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium and at the singing competition Voix Nouvelles.

The young French mezzo-soprano is equally at home on the opera stage, in recitals and in the field of Baroque chamber music, and has already worked with leading early music ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Talens Lyriques and Ensemble Pygmalion, and with conductors including William Christie, Vincent Dumestre (Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas), Hervé Niquet, Christophe Rousset (Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Paris Philharmonie), Philippe Herreweghe, Raphaël Pichon and Leonardo García Alarcón.

In 2019 Eva Zaïcik performed La Speranza in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with I Gemelli at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, as well as Bizet’s Carmen at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. In the 2021/22 season she has appeared as Vénus in André Campra’s Idoménée at the Opéra de Lille, sung in Handel’s Messiah with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and appeared in the title role of Carmen and as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse.

Future projects include Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana under Thomas Hengelbrock with the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, new productions of Handel’s Belshazzar with the ensemble L’Arpeggiata under Christina Pluhar at the Theater an der Wien and of Lully’s Armide with Le Poème Harmonique under Vincent Dumestre, and concerts conducted by Philippe Herreweghe in Berlin and Barcelona.

During her time studying in Paris Eva Zaïcik became a member of Ensemble Lunaris, which, with its unusual combination of three voices accompanied by gamba, performed diverse programmes from Gregorian chant to modern music. In recent years Eva Zaïcik has established strong working