Deputy Chairman for the Royal Danish Opera Chorus
For the past two years, I have been interested in the organizational and representative parts of my work. At the end of this theatre season, I have been elected Deputy Chairman of the Royal Danish Opera Chorus. I am looking forward to working closely with chairman Carl Rahmqvist and the rest of the board. I am proud to be a part of the inner structure of the Royal Danish Opera House and excited to broaden my experience and contribute to the cultural life in Denmark in various ways.
Opera Trio
We were happy to return to FOiK again with our fresh new program at the beautiful Odd Fellow Palace. Opera Trio: C. Hjortsberg sopran, L. Szabova mezzosopran, A. Wagner, harp
foto: Camilla Winther, Royal Danish Opera House
Katja Kabanova
In September I had the opportunity of being a cover for the role of Varvara in the Janáček’s opera Katja Kabanova at the Royal Danish Opera House. What a great team to be a part of!
BARK, at Det Danske Sangselskab
Our vocal trio BARK had the wonderful opportunity to perform our favorite repertoire of Shocstakovitch, Britten, and Ravels songs for Det Danske Sangselskab alongside the legendary danish tenor Stig Fogh Andersen.
Premiere St. Matthew Passion by F. Sixten
In the beautiful historical city of Helsingborg, Sweden we are premiering an exciting new work by Henrik Sixten for a solo quartet, an ensemble of eight singers, a choir, organ, and an orchestra conducted by Ragnar Bohlin.
The soundtrack to SPEAK NO EVIL
I was asked by Danish composer Sune Køter Kølster to be a part of the vocal ensemble for the recording of a soundtrack to the movie Speak No Evil. The movie has been premiered in March and we are very happy it has been critically acclaimed and called a groundbreaking movie in the horror genre. “…In all of its adept variations, SPEAK NO EVIL offers an intriguing, often fascinating aural structure and listening experience...", as mentioned on buysoundtrax.com. Listen to the recording HERE
photo: Deniz Kaya
Troubadours21 at BEHOLD festival
My artistic group Troubadours21 made an appearance at the BEHOLD international theatre festival in Copenhagen. Mark Ibsgaard Gregersen playing the double bass, Jedrzej Lagodzinski playing the saxophone, and I as a singer-actor have created and improvised music short-play “Out of Whale”, about the mind traveling when experiencing loneliness during lock-downs.
DOPHA and opera cross-over
I enjoy various cooperations beyond opera and classical singing. Therefor I was delighted to be invited for a cross-over concert with a raising Danish pop-star Dopha. The dates of the concert are due to the latest lock-down to be specified.
Nadia&Lucie DUO
Nadia and I are very happy and proud to become semifinalists in the international song competition COPENHAGEN LIED DUO. As the only Duo we represented also music of slavic composers.
Read more about our duo here.
B A R K
The international, Copenhagen based ensemble BARK consists of three singers, colleagues and friends from the Royal Danish Opera Chorus: Trine Vestergaard (a Danish soprano), Lucie Szabová (a Slovakian alto) and Carl Rahmqvist (a Swedish tenor)
Brought together by a passion for the music from the end of the 19th century up to and including present day, they decided to form BARK: a trio that specialises in finding and combining fascinating music that has been rarely performed in Denmark with more well known compositions. Their diverse backgrounds, great interest in languages and classical literature is reflected in how they explore hidden meanings and nuances in the songs.
Grundtvigs Kirke
You are welcome to the magnificient Grundtvigs Kirke, where we will have a concert with a young promising baritone Richard Låås and accompanied by Nadia Okrusko. During the second lockdown we have prepared a lots of new repertoire, we would like to share with you. Read more here.
Concert in Metronomen
In cooperation with IMMART we have prepared a concert of our favorite classical songs by a.o. Schumann, Ravel, Dvorak and Heise. Photographer Guadalupe Basagoitia is joining us, showcasing some of her work. Read more here.
Premiere of work by Bo Lundby-Jæger
With Cecilia Hjortsberg, sopran and Angelica Wagner, harp, we are going to premiere Bo Lundby-Jægers duets for soprano, alto and a harp. We are looking forward to sing at the Gladsaxe Kirke. Read more here.
Copenhagen Opera Festival
With Nadia Okrusko we are happy to perform alongside other 19 amazing ensembles our beloved gypsy themes repertoire at the Copenhagen Opera Festival. The Festival will take place at various places around Copenhagen in the form of pop up concerts..
Sommerpulje
We are thankful to receive a grant for three concerts with our trio Les Voix accompanied by Filip Strauch and one concert with a trio Storbacka (violin), Okrusko (piano) and me, from Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen, pulje til kunstneriske sommeraktiviteter i Danmark.
Read more about the concerts here.
Welcome to my webpage!
I am a slovak mezzosoprano based in Copenhagen, Denmark. After finishing my studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music I became a member of the Royal Danish Opera Chorus and I freelance as a solo and ansamble singer, always finding possibilities to grow as a singer and artist. As a soloist I have performed e.g. at the Copnehagen Opera Festival 2018, Tivoli Concert Hall performing The Magic Flute or at the Royal Danish Opera House singing solo chorus parts.
I enjoy small intimate concerts, where I can have direct contact with the audience. I have organised and performed concerts of slovak and czech music in Copenhagen to share heritage of our composers while searching for the music that affects me the most directly as to be able to communicate on a personal level.
My curiosity has led me to Copenhagen impro and experimental scene which triggers creativity. I have written an impro music play Abstract Love, which also took part at the Vildskud festival of independent arts or cowrited and performed a play The Egg in Fortlicija Festival of independent art in Poland.
August 2020, the society is opening after the COVID19 restrictions and hopefully we can finally enjoy culture and arts after the several months of abstinence. We are starting rehearsals at the Copenhagen Opera House on the 5th of August and I am happy I can kick off the season with three very different concerts.
Singing in a mixed ensamble of seven classical and rhytmical singers, accompanied by seven saxophones and seven double bases, we are premiering the contemporary work of Calum Builder, young composer and saxophonist based in Copenhagen “You are where you need to be”.
Later on, as one of the 20 chosen ensembles, I am going to perform my heart repertoire of gypsy melodies by Dvorak, Andrasovan and Bizet with Nadia Okrusko at the Copenhagen Opera Festival in 5 pop up concerts.
The month will end with an invitiation to Herning, where my trio Les Voix is having a glamour concert full of opera and musical hits.
Read more about the events here.
with love
Lucie
News
Step in, concert for FOIK
I had the opportunity to step in for Johanna Bock in a concert of Trio Angelo for Foreningen Opera Aftener i København. Marathon of arias and duets with my friend Cecilia Hjortsberg accompanied by a wonderful harpenist Angelika Wagner was met with a welcoming audience which we enjoyed singing for.
Role of Cretan, Idomeneo
I am very glad for the opportunity of singing a solo chorus role of Cretan in the opera Idomeneo at the Royal Danish Opera House, premiering 29th. of February, 2020.
Concerts in Slovakia and Czech Republic
With my dear colleague Nadia Okrusko, we are going to perform song cycles by Andrašovan, Dvořák, Nystroem and a small improvisation in my hometown Senec and hometown of my mother Telč. Looking forward! See the dates.
Søllerød Kirke collaboration
Based on our previous collaboration with Bach cantata I am very happy to be invited to sing in this beautiful small church again a Sunday service with music of Gounod.
Thank you!
We would like to thank The culture house of Senec, Slovakia and the Kruh pratel hudby in Telč, Czech Republic for having us. We performed with Nadia Okrusko three beautiful song cycles that I have a special connection to; Gypsy Melodies by Dvorak, Svitlo slnko by Andrasovan and Sanger vid Havet by Nystroem. Nadia also skilfully interpreted a piece by Janacek In the mists. The audience was amazing and even opened for out little improvisation that we sneaked into this classical concert program.
Messiah
Grundtvig’s Kirke is one of the most beautiful and majestic churches in Copenhagen. We have performed Messiah by Handel before the Christmas, where I got to sing one of my favourite arias “He was despised”.
Prize Nomination
A while ago I recorded vocals to a few songs and read one of my poems on the album The saddest game by Tobi Duchampe. I am very glad Tobi’ s album got nominated for the “Best music of the year 2019” by Natt&Dag and surprisingly for the prize of the ugliest album cover.
1989, 30 years later
With Nadia Okrusko we have performed at the exhibition 1989, 30 years later at Domen in Arhus in cooperation with IMMART. Since we are both coming from post-communist countries, we felt strongly connected to the theme and we recreated the revolution in our semi improvised music performance.
Cooperation
I enjoy cooperation with various musicians, artists and performers. Here I perform with my dear friend Paulina Storbacka from Finland and Nikolaus von Bemberg from Germany and I believe our different backgrounds has inspired us in interpretation and led us to an interesting conversation about music aesthetics.
This is a video from my last year of master studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2017. We have recorded this beautiful piece Violons dans le soire by Saint-Saëns in the schools concert hall which is known for its amazing acoustic and stunning design.
If you would like to cooperate don’t hesitate to contact me!
From the Copenhagen Opera Festival at the Tivoli Gardens.
Trio Les Voix with swedish sopranos Cecilia Lindwall and Cecilia Hjortsberg. We perform famous opera female trios, duets and solo arias. Soon you can hear us at the Herning Opera Festival. Read and hear more here.
I have passion for creating small intimate concerts singing less known song cycles , combining the performance with other related artistic styles as poetry, improvisation or acting. This picture was taken at my final concert “Desire” at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Improvisation
This fall we had the opportunity to perform at the Fortalicja Festival of intuitive art at Zamosc, Poland with my group of improvising musicians/performers Troubadours21.
This is a short video of our performance “The Egg”, where you follow the dialogues of nocturnal creatures. With Jedrzej Lagodzinski playing the saxophone, we created our own environment of sounds and language in a naive theatrical setting.
I am strongly interested in various forms of performative arts and always looking for new things to learn and explore. Contact me if you would be interested in cooperation!