In the same year, 2018, French mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, who specializes in
Baroque music, won a Victoire de la musique classique and second prize in the
Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium. Born in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) on
July 17, 1987, she learned to sing in a choir and took part in a number of shows
before studying medicine. After discovering opera singing as a teenager, she
went on to study at the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, then in 2011 at the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where, after a Master's degree with
honors, she undertook a Performer's D...