Lucie Spickova

Anglo-Czech mezzo-soprano Lucie Spickova recently appeared as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro under Sir Colin Davis for Royal Academy Opera, followed by a recording for BBC Radio 3 of Act 2 as part of their Discovering Music programme.

Forthcoming projects include performances in St Martin-in-the-Fields, QEH, Dartington Summer Festival and recitals in Sweden and Denmark.

Opera roles include Eternita/Calisto, Kurochkina/Paradise Moscow, Bianca/The Rape of Lucretia, Laura/Iolantha, and 2^nd 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. Partial roles studied for Royal Academy Opera tableaux include Sesto/La Clemenza di Tito, Suzuki/Madama Butterfly, Mère Marie/Dialogue des Carmelites, Meg/Falstaff, Adalgisi/Norma, Isolier/Comte Ory and Dorabella/Cosi fan tutte.

An experienced oratorio singer, Lucie has been heard most recently at the Cadogan Hall with the Southbank Sinfonia in J.J. Ryba’s Christmas Mass, at the Prague Spring Festival in Bach’s B minor Mass, and with Laurence Cummings at the London Handel Festival singing Handel’s cantata Splenda l’alba in oriente. Other performances include Bach’s Magnificat in Guildford Cathedral with the Brandenburg Sinfonia, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor in St. James’s Piccadilly and Handel’s Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne with Orchestra Nova under George Vass.

As a recitalist Lucie has performed in the Wigmore Hall with Graham Johnson, Toby Spence and Wendy Dawn Thompson in Janá?ek’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and in venues in France, Germany and in the Czech Republic. She is a regular performer with the Martinelli Project in a series of concerts in Prague, Vienna and Munich, singing Renaissance songs for mezzo-soprano, bass and lute.

She has made a recording of David Matthew’s A Congress of Passions (From Sea to Sky) under George Vass for Dutton Epoch and also appeared in the Bafta-winning Channel 4 programme, The Choir!  

Lucie is a graduate of Oriel College, Oxford, where she gained a 1^st class degree.  She  has just completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Music on the Opera Programme, graduating with distinction and continues her studies with Elizabeth Ritchie and Jonathan Papp. Whilst at the Academy she won the prestigious Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize and the Patricia Kris Wolfe prize. She was also awarded the Wilson S&M Eyres Scholarship, an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust.