New Artists
Zita Syme - SopranoAnglo-Irish soprano, Zita Syme graduated from Royal Holloway University of London with BMus (First Class Hons). She is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and won first prize in the 2017 Emmy Destinn Young Singers Award. Zita has been supported by the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust which has made recent residential masterclasses with Cheryl Studer and Bernarda Fink possible.As a Young Artist for Longborough Festival Opera Zita has sung Giunone (Cavalli, La Calisto) and covered Fiordiligi (Mozart, Cosi Fan Tutte). In 2022 she made her debut with Wexford Festival opera creating the role of Mrs Saker in the world première of Alberto Caruso’s The Master and returned the following season to sing Suor Genovieffa (Puccini, Suor Angelica). Recent engagements include singing Mimi in the 2023 and 2024 Opera Brava UK and Corfu tour, Antonia (Les Contes D’Hoffmann) and Mademoiselle Silberklang (Mozart, Der Schauspieldirektor).
From 2020-2022 Zita was a resident ensemble artist with Opéra Grand Avignon and sang roles in Mireille (Gounod), Peter Grimes (Britten) and Idomeneo (Mozart). Recent tours include co-productions, of Bellini’s La Sonnambula (Opéra de Vichy and Opéra de Clermont). Forthcoming engagements include co-productions of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (Opéra national de Montpellier and Opéra de Toulon).
Recent concert engagements include Haydn’s Nelson Mass (Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été (St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden) and solo recitals at St James’s Piccadilly, The National Portrait Gallery and in the Music Festival d’Orange (France).
Zita has worked with companies including Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra national de Montpellier, Longborough Festival Opera, Opera Holland Park, The Buxton International Festival, Wexford Festival Opera and Opera Rara and Opera Up Close. She has sung with conductors including Richard Hickox CBE, Oleg Caetani, Carlo Rizzi, Marc Korovitch, Beatrice Venezi, Debora Waldman and Federico Santi.
For Naxos, she has recorded Herbert Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi, Carl Rutti’s Requiem (world première) and movie soundtracks for Walt Disney’s Shrek the Third and Prince Caspian conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams.
Upcoming Events
Follow Music International Artist Performances (Alphabetical list of upcoming events)
Peter BrathwaiteSoloist, Benjamin Britten’s Tit for Tat Britten Pears Arts – 30th of October 2022Soloist, The Outcast by Olga Neuwirth for Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris – Monday September 26th, 2022
Simon ButterissRussel Paxton, Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark, Stichting Opera Zuid – 12th of November to the 11th of December 2022
Ilona DomnichSoloist, Classical Spectacular – London Concert Orchestra, Birmingham Symphony Hall – 29th of October 2022
Tosca, Diva Opera on Tour – Noordhoek, South Africa – 21 February 2022
Sky IngramSoloist, New Year’s Eve Proms, Symphony Hall in Birmingham -31st of December 2022Soloist, New Year’s Day Proms, Barbican Hall in London – 1st of January 2023
Frederick LongSoloist, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir – 3rd of December 2022 Teatro Alla Scala, 11th of December 2022 Versailles Palace, 13 and 15th of December 2022 St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.Masetto, Don Giovanni, Saffron Opera Group – 19th of February 2023
Donald MaxwellSecond Preist, The Magic Flute the Royal Opera House – 19th of December 2022 to the 28th of January 2023Benoit/Alcindoro, La Boheme The Metropolitan Opera – 21st of April to the 4th of June 2023
Matthew StiffDoctor Grenvil, Verdi’s La Traviata, Opera North – 29th of September to the 17th of November 2022Sacristan, Puccini’s Tosca, Opera North – 21st of January to the 1st of April 2023
Gavin SutherlandConducting Cinderella at the Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich – 14th of October 2022 to the 5th of April 2023Conducting Creature at the Opera Balletvlaaderen, Belgium – 21st to the 29th of January 2023
Conducting Raymonda at the Finnish National Ballet – 24th of February to the 23rd of March 2023
Sir John TomlinsonConcert, The Mahler Players, Scotland – 3rd and 4th of December 2022Dikoj, Janáček’s Katya Kabanova, London Symphony Orchestra – 11th of Jan 2023
Geist/Totengräber/Spieler 4, Brett Dean’s Hamlet, Bayrische Staatsoper – 26th of June to the 12th of July 2023