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Lucie Špičková
Whilst studying at the Royal Academy Opera, Anglo-Czech mezzo-soprano Lucie Špičková has appeared as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro under Sir Colin Davis and as Kurochkina in Shostakovich’s Paradise Moscow. Forthcoming projects include Eternity in La Calisto.
Other roles include Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Laura (Iolantha), and 2nd Songe (Dardanus) for Royal Academy Opera. For Opera Camera Linz in Austria she has sung the lead roles in Venus and Adonis and Die verlorene Liebesmueh-die Oper.
Lucie has performed in the Wigmore Hall with Graham Johnson, Toby Spence and Wendy Dawn Thompson in Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and in venues in France, Germany and in the Czech Republic.
Whilst studying on the Royal Academy Opera Programme, under Elizabeth Ritchie and Jonathan Papp, Lucie won the prestigious Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize and the Patricia Kris Wolfe prize. She was also awarded the Alec Templeton Scholarship, an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust.
In October 2008 Lucie will be performing a recital of Czech songs at the Oxford Lieder Festival.
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