Eva Zaïcik, who is also well known to the Beaune public, illuminates with her mezzo voice repertoires ranging from Early Music to that of today, including the great romantic roles such as Carmen. After Octavia in the Coronation of Poppea last weekend, she joins again Stéphane Fuget and the Ensemble Les Epopées, in residence at Festival, for this recital devoted to the great Italian masters of the 17th century. Monteverdi, Cavalli and Strozzi shaped the nascent opera on the fantasized model of ancient Greek theatre, in which sung declamation sublimates the expression of the text. In lament, madness or erotic outbursts, the interpreter must give the best of her temperament, her art as a singer and her virtuoso mastery.