Royal Handel Eva Zaïcik & Le Consort

• Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759): Flavio, Re de Longobardi, HWV 16:
• 1 Handel: Flavio, Re de Longobardi, HWV 16: Aria "Rompo i lacci, e frango i dardi" 04:57
• 2 Ariosti: Caio Marzio Coriolano: Aria "Sagri numi" 08:24
• Georg Friedrich Händel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia, HWV 22:
• 3 Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia, HWV 22: Aria "Gelosia, spietata aletto" 04:36
• Siroe, Re di Persia, HWV 24:
• 4 Handel: Siroe, Re di Persia, HWV 24: Recitativo "Son stanco" 01:26
• 5 Handel: Siroe, Re di Persia, HWV 24: Aria "Deggio morire, o stelle" 06:54
• Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto, HWV 25:
• 6 Handel: Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto, HWV 25: Recitativo "Inumano fratel" 01:24
• 7 Handel: Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto, HWV 25: Aria "Stille amare" 05:04
• Floridante, HWV 14:
• 8 Handel: Floridante, HWV 14: Aria "Ma priva vedrò le stelle" 03:43
• Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17:
• 9 Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Aria "L'aure che spira" 04:31
• Ottone, Re di Germanie, HWV 15:
• 10 Handel: Ottone, Re di Germanie, HWV 15: Aria "Ah! Tu non sai" 06:08
• Attilio Ariosti (1666 - 1729): Caio Marzio Coriolano:
• 11 Ariosti: Caio Marzio Coriolano: Aria "E' pur il gran piacer" 03:33
• Giovanni Bononcini (1670 - 1747): Crispo:
• 12 Bononcini: Crispo: Aria "Strazio, scempio, furia e morte" 01:49
• Georg Friedrich Händel: Radamisto, HWV 12:
• 13 Handel: Radamisto, HWV 12: Aria "Ombra cara" 08:29
• Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra, HWV 23:
• 14 Handel: Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra, HWV 23: Aria "Agitato da fiere tempeste" 04:01
• Total Runtime 01:04:59

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Drei Hauskomponisten: Auch wenn bis zur ersten Opernaufführung dann doch mehr als ein Jahr vergehen sollte, markiert 1719 das offizielle Geburtsjahr der Royal Academy of Music, Händels erstem Londoner Opernunternehmen, dem wir Meisterwerke wie Giulio Cesare, Ottone oder Rodelinda zu verdanken haben. Neben Händel als musikalischem Leiter wirkten bis 1723 mit Attilio Ariosti und Giovanni Battista Bononcini zwei weitere bekannte Exponenten der italienischen Opera seria als Hauskomponisten. Die Mezzosopranistin Eva Zaïcik stellt hier zusammen mit dem Ensemble Le Consort Musik der drei Meister für die Royal Academy of Music vor und bringt uns so das damals bestehende hohe musikalische Niveau in Erinnerung.

Eva Zaicik, Mezzosopran
Le Consort

Eva Zaïcik
2018 saw young mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik – one of the most renowned opera singers of her generation - carry off the « Revelation Opera Singers » award at the « Victoires de la Musique Classique », as well as prizes in two prestigious international competitions: 2nd Prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium; and in the “Voix Nouvelles” competition.

Her golden timbre, impressive range and stage presence had already earned her a place on the 8th session of William Christie's Jardin des Voix with Les Arts Florissants, and other roles followed rapidly.

This interest in exchange between different cultures and time, travelling between Baroque and Romantic music with the same facilities led to the title role in Dido and Aeneas in Versailles Operas; Lybie in Lully's Phaeton at the Perm and Versailles Operas with the Poème Harmonique; La Messaggiera and Speranza in Monteverdi's Orfeo Theatre des Champs Elysées; the 3rd Lady in Mozart's Magic Flute with Les Talens Lyriques, but also to Melibea (Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims), Farnace (Mozart's Mitridate), Cherubino (Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro), Judith (Bartók's A Kékszakallù Herceg Vara), Diane à la Houppe (Honegger's Les Aventures du Roi Pausole) and Ernesto (Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna) with the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris.

In 2019, she premiered the title role in Carmen at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, and Sélyzette in Dukas' Ariane and Bluebeard at Toulouse's Théâtre du Capitole.

2020, will see her performing in many prestigious productions as Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Eté with the Aalborg Symfoniokester in Danemark under the baton of Maestro Michael Schønwandt, then on a big tour in Brazil. She will also perform in New York as mezzo solo on the Monteverdi’s Marian Vespers with l’Ensemble Pygmalion, and will appears on Olivier Py’s new production as Paulina in Tchaikovsky’s Pikovaya Dama, before living on a Haendel Tour with Les Arts Florissants.

She has performed in many prestigious venues both in France and abroad (Philharmonie de Paris, Aix en Provence, Chorégies d'Orange, Avignon, Oude Muziek d’Utrecht, Festival Messiaen, Diaghilev Festival de Perm, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Tchaïkovsky Concert Hall, Barbican Center, Royal Albert Hall de Londres, Seoul ...) under the baton of such great conductors as (Alain Altinoglu, Leonardo Garcia Alarcòn, Marco Guidarini, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Cornelius Meister, David Reiland ...

She often joins Justin Taylor and his Consort for several baroque programmes (including performances at Antwerp's AMUZ Festival and the Bruges Concertgebouw). One of these programmes, devoted to French Cantatas, “Venez Chère Ombre”, has been recorded by Alpha.

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