Opera
Mimi
La Boheme (Puccini)
Opera Brava Tour UK and Corfu
2024
1 st soprano - Chorus
Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci (Mascagni and Leoncavallo)
Opera National de Montpellier
2024
Mimi
La Boheme (Puccini)
Opera Brava UK Tour
2023
Suor Genovieffa and Una Conversa
Suor Angelica (Puccini)
Wexford Festival Opera
2023
1 st soprano - Chorus
Suor Angelica (Puccini)
Wexford Festival Opera
2023
Mimi
La Bohéme (Puccini)
Rhosygilwen Manor, Wales
2022
Antonia
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Kentish Opera, U K
2022
Mrs Saker
The Master (Composed: Alberto Caruso, libretto: Colm Tóibín)
Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland
2022
Fiordiligi (English tr.)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Longborough Festival Opera
2021
Mlle Silberklang
Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart)
Opera in Oborne
2021
Cretan Woman
Idomeneo (Mozart)
Opéra Grand Avignon
2021
Fisherwoman
Peter Grimes (Britten)
Opéra Grand Avignon
2021
Donna Pippa (English translation)
L'oca del Cairo (Mozart)
Opera in Oborne
2021
Clémence
Mireille (Gounod)
Opéra Grand Avignon
2021
Micaëla
Carmen (Bizet)
Sherborne Abbey Festival
2020
Giunone
La Calisto (Cavalli)
Longborough Festival Opera
2019
Chorus/cover (Annina)
La Traviata (Verdi)
Longborough Festival Opera
2018
Antonia
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Opera in Oborne
2018
Cherubino
Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Opera in Oborne
2018
Mimi
La bohème (Puccini)
Opera in Oborne
2017
Rosalinde
Die Fledermaus (Strauss)
Opera in Oborne
2017
Zerlina
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Opera in Oborne
2016
Cherubino
Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Opera in Oborne
2016
Cassandra
Gli astrologi immaginari (Paisiello)
Charing Cross Theatre
2015
Dido
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Surrey Opera
2014
Dr Mary
Dr Selavy's Magic Theatre (Stanley Silverman)
New Wimbledon Studio
2014
Poppea
L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
King's Head Theatre
2011
Relative & Kate Pinkerton
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
King's Head Theatre
2011
Operetta/G&S
Fiametta
The Gondoliers (Sullivan)
Opera Della Luna
2014
Elsa
The Grand Duke (Sullivan)
Buxton International Festival
2012
Early Music
Soloist
Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres (Couperin)
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
2018
Soloist
Music for Shakespeare's birthday (Various)
Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare
2018
Art Song
Recitalist
Czech Song and Opera (Various)
Emmy Destinn Foundation, London
2019
Soloist
Les Nuits d'Été (Berlioz)
St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
2018
Soloist
Lizzie and Darcy (based on Jane Austen) (Various)
John Kerr Company
2018
Recitalist
English Song Concert (Various)
John Kerr Company
2017
Recitalist
Czech Song and Opera (Various)
St James's Piccadilly, London
2017
Soloist
Czech Song and Opera (Various)
Britten-Pears Young Artist concert, London
2017
Chorus
1st Soprano - Chorus
La Sonnambula (Bellini)
Opéra de Vichy and Opéra Grand Avignon, France
2022
1st Soprano - Chorus
La Sonnambula (Bellini)
Clermont Auvergne Opéra and Opéra Grand Avignon
2022
1st Soprano - Chorus
Zingari (Leoncavallo)
Opera Rara
2021
1st Soprano - Chorus
Evariste Galois ou la nuit tragique (Fabien Barcelo (libretto, Bruno Alberro)
Opéra Grand Avignon, France
2021
1st Soprano - Chorus
Peter Grimes (BrittenBritten)
Opéra Grand Avignon, France
2021
1st Soprano - Chorus
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Opéra Grand Avignon
2021
1 st soprano - Chorus
Le Messie du peuple chauve (Eric Breton)
Opéra Grand Avignon
2020
1st Soprano - Chorus
La Traviata (Verdi)
Longborough Festival Opera
2018
Chorus
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Opera Holland Park
2017
Chorus
La rondine (Puccini)
Opera Holland Park
2017
Chorus
Die Fledermaus (Strauss)
Opera Holland Park
2016
Chorus
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Opea Holland Park
2016
1 st soprano - Chorus
Aida (Verdi)
Opera Holland Park, London
2015
Oratorio/Concerts
Soprano soloist
Petite messe solennelle (Rossini)
The Allegri Singers
2023
Soprano soloist
Stabat Mater (Dvorak)
Sussex Chorus
2023
Soprano soloist
Nelson Mass (Haydn)
Aberystwyth Choral Society
2023
Soloist
Nelson Mass (Haydn)
Sussex Chorus
2022
Soloist
Passion and Resurrection (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
The Allegri Singers
2020
Soloist
The Creation (Haydn)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, David Russell Hulme (C)
2019
Soloist
Requiem (Timothy Hamilton)
St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
2018
Soloist
Mass in D (Dvořák)
St James's Piccadilly
2018
Soloist
Requiem (Mozart)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2017
Soloist
Liebeslieder-Walzer (Brahms)
Allegri Singers
2017
Soloist
Magnificat (Parry)
The Croydon Philharmonic Choir
2016
Choral
Chorus
The Pilgrim's Progress (Vaughan Williams)
Opera Australia
2008
Discography
Chorus
The Passing of The Year (Jonathan Dove)
Naxos: Convivium Singers
2010
Chorus
The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian (Harry Gregson-Williams : [Walt Disney])
The Bach Choir, conducted by David Hill
2008
Chorus
Requiem (Carl Rutti)
Naxos: The Bach Choir, conducted by David Hill
2008
Chorus
Shrek the Third (Harry Gregson-Williams)
The Bach Choir, conducted by David Hill
2007
Chorus
Hymnus Paradisi (Herbert Howells)
Naxos : The Bach Choir, conducted by David Hill
2006
Covered
Covered & Performed
Scenes
Premiere of New Work
Concert
COVID-cancelled
As Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro
As Zerlina in Don Giovanni
La Calisto, Longborough Festival Opera 2019. Photo credit: Matthew Williams-Ellis
La Calisto, Longborough Festival Opera 2019. Photo credit: Matthew Williams-Ellis
Mimi, La Boheme (Opera Brava UK Tour, 2023)
Zita Syme opera gala (photo credit: Zoe Cooper)
National Opera Studio Short Course Participant
National Opera Studio
2018
Universität
Universität der Künste, Berlin
2017
The Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme
Aldeburgh Music
2016
Certificate of Higher Education in Opera
Birkbeck University
2009–2010
BMus, First Class Honours
Royal Holloway, University of London
2006–2009
Italian
Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute
2003
Anglo-Irish soprano Zita Syme graduated from Royal Holloway University of London with First Class Honours in Music. She is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and won first prize in the 2017 Emmy Destinn Young Singers Award.
As a Young Artist for Longborough Festival Opera Zita has sung Giunone (La Calisto) and covered Fiordiligi (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 (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, Peter Grimes and Idomeneo. Recent tours include co-productions, of La Sonnambula (Opéra de Vichy and Opéra de Clermont) and 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.
She is represented by Neil Dalrymple at Music International.
