Eva Zaïcik
About this Artist
Eva Zaïcik has risen to popularity for the beauty of her voice, whose fullness and flexibility enable her to sing Monteverdi as well as Berlioz, Rossini, and Bizet. The mezzo-soprano has established herself as one of the most prominent opera artists of her generation. What’s more, she cultivates a musical diversity that favors the most daring explorations alongside top-ranking musicians.
In 2018 she was named Révélation Lyrique at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards and won Second Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Voix Nouvelles Competition. These distinctions brilliantly confirmed an already considerable career, which has seen her collaborate with first-rate conductors in prestigious concert halls, including William Christie, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet, Christophe Rousset, Philippe Herreweghe, Laurence Equilbey, Emmanuelle Haïm, René Jacobs, Cornelius Meister, and Alain Altinoglu.
She recently appeared as Carmen, Rosina (The Barber of Seville by Rossini), and Sélysette (Ariane et Barbe-bleue by Dukas) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Venus in Campra’s Idoménée at the Opéra de Lille and the Berlin Staatsoper; Monteverdi’s Vespers for the Blessed Virgin with Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, directed by Pierre Audi; and Pauline in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Nice and Toulon operas, directed by Olivier Py.
Zaïcik’s album Mayrig, an opus devoted to Armenian lullabies by Komitas and Aprikian, was released in April 2023.
During the 2023/24 season, Zaïcik traveled throughout Europe performing Mozart’s Requiem with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and Philippe Herreweghe, Le Concert de la Loge conducted by Julien Chauvin, and Insula Orchestra under the baton of Laurence Equilbey. She also toured across North America with Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre. She ended her season at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Olga) conducted by Gábor Káli and directed by Florent Siaud.