With a unique personal narrative beginning in Fairbanks, Alaska, and an international career now spanning more than two decades, mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux beguiles audiences and critics alike with her charisma, dedication, and astounding vocal technique. After noting that she ‘has stage presence in spades,’ Clive Paget wrote in Australia’s Limelight Magazine that Vivica ‘demonstrated complete mastery with her exemplary phrasing and effortless vocal dexterity. Add to that a voice of great richness, easy at the top, yet with an ability to plunge at will into a beefy bottom register, and you have what can only be described as the real deal.’ Via opera, concert, and recital engagements in 2021, Vivica will visit some of the world’s most prestigious venues. Featuring music by Johann Adolf Hasse, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann David Heinichen, and Johann Georg Pisendel, The Court of Dresden with Vespres d’Arnadí arrives in Madrid, Oviedo, and Barcelona in May, followed by Pyrotechnies : de Vivaldi à Piazzolla with Gabetta Consort at Froville’s Festival de musique sacrée et baroque on 28 May. Postponed from 2020, Viva Vivaldi!, a concert with Les Accents featuring music from operas by Antonio Vivaldi, will be performed in conjunction with the Vilnius Festival on 6 June 2021. Vivica then visits Linz for her rôle début as Deceit in a performance of Händel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth with Bach Consort Wien on 16 June. Regrettably, many of Vivica’s performances in 2020 and 2021 were be cancelled in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, including her débuts in the title rôle of Händel’s Tamerlano; performances of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s L’olimpiade (Megacle) and Gioacchino Rossini’s La donna del lago (Malcolm) with Opernhaus Zürich; and a recital with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour for Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera. Premièred to acclaim in November 2017, Vivica’s multimedia presentation devoted to the life and legacy of Pauline Viardot, Vivica & Viardot, was scheduled to be performed at the Salzburger Pfingstfestspiele, which was cancelled. Il divino Sassone, a programme featuring arias and instrumental music from operas by Hasse in which she partners with Lautten Compagney Berlin, was performed at the 2020 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival on 12 September 2020. Additional engagements in 2020 included concerts with Il pomo d’oro in Reggio Emilia and Concerto de’ Cavalieri in Roma. In February, Vivica lead a masterclass course, Historische Aufführungspraxis: Italienisches Repertoire, 1600 - 1800, for Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg before celebrating Valentine’s Day with a concert with Concerto Köln in Dresden’s Frauenkirche. Vivica welcomed 2019 with Farinelli-themed concerts with Concerto de’ Cavalieri and Marcello Di Lisa in Antwerp (Belgium) and Valletta (Malta). Later in January, she joined La magnifica comunità and Enrico Casazza for Sulla Via della Seta, a programme featuring music by Domenico Gallo, Händel, Hasse, and Vivaldi. February 2019 found her first in Poissy and Bilbao with Les Musiciens du Louvre and then in Karlsruhe for Internationale Händel-Festspiele's Händel-Gala, in which she will be joined by mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg in performances of music by Vivaldi, Händel, Rossini, and Bellini. Returning to Austria, Vivica débuted in the rôle of Trasimede in Riccardo Broschi’s Merope at Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. She returned to Romania’s George Enescu International Festival in September for a concert performance of Händel’s Lucio Cornelio Silla with Europa Galante. In October 2019, she celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the formation of Bach Consort Wien with a concert at the Musikverein. Particular joys amongst Vivica’s recent endeavors are teaching engagements that have allowed her to deepen her commitment to sharing her enthusiasm and expertise with young artists. In 2017, she founded and led the inaugural course of V/vox Academy, in addition to leading well-received masterclasses in Rome and Weimar. She returned to Roma Opera Campus in December 2017 for the second edition of the Dal barocco al belcanto course and participated in ROC’s initiative to prepare and perform Hasse’s Enea in Caonia in June 2018. Vivica has been widely lauded for her performances of the music of Händel, Vivaldi, and their contemporaries. A cornerstone of Vivica’s extensive Baroque repertory is the music of Johann Adolf Hasse, whose works she champions in performance and on disc. In 2017, the rôle of Piramo in Hasse’s Piramo e Tisbe took her to Budapest, Vienna, and Valencia for performances with Europa Galante. 2017 also witnessed her rôle débuts as Lepido in Händel’s Lucio Cornelio Silla, presented in concert with Europa Galante at Wiener Konzerthaus in January and recorded and released on CD on the Glossa label; as Eternità and Diana in Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto at Opéra national du Rhin; and as Arsamene in Händel's Serse at Opéra de Versailles. On the concert platform, highlights of recent seasons include the début of a new program featuring music composed for the mythological singer Orpheus by Gluck, Händel, Hasse, Porpora, Ristori, and Wagenseil; the continuation of Rival Queens, Vivica’s traversal with soprano Simone Kermes of arias and duets composed for Eighteenth-Century divas Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni, documented on CD by Sony Classical and revived in Turkey, Switzerland, and Malta in January 2017; and a return to Chicago in February 2017 for three concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The winner of coveted prizes including a 1997 ARIA Award, New York City Opera’s 2007 Christopher Keene Award, and Pittsburgh Opera's 2008 Maecenas Award, Vivica is the 2017 recipient of the City of Halle’s prestigious Händel-Preis, which was formally awarded in June 2017. In January 2019, she received the Hasse-Preis of the Johann Adolf Hasse-Stiftung. Vivica is frequently featured in broadcasts and CD and DVD/Blu-ray recordings, expanding an impressive discography that documents the whole span of her career to date, and she continues to expand her concert and opera repertories, the latter of which now extends to more than sixty rôles.