Zoe Drummond
Zoe Drummond
[London]
Australian soprano Zoe Drummond made her international debut with the English National Opera in 2019 stepping in to perform Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. She then performed Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with West Green House Opera, and was a 2019 Alvarez Young Artist with Garsington Opera in their production of Don Giovanni.
In 2020, Zoe is working extensively with Scottish Opera, including the Spring Opera Highlights Tour, Fiametta in The Gondoliers and Phylla in Utopia Limited. Then she joins Waterperry Opera Festival to sing the role of Adina in The Elixir of Love, in collaboration with English National Opera.
In 2016, Zoe made her Opera Australia debut singing numerous roles in the harbour-side spectacular: Sydney Opera House- The Eighth Wonder . Zoe returned to the house in 2017, starring as twin sisters Giroflé and Girofla in a pastiche operetta, Two Weddings, One Bride. She reprised this role again in 2019 for their Melbourne season.
Other opera highlights include Adelaide in Dove’s The Enchanted Pig (Yarra Valley Opera Festival), Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuletti e I Montecchi, and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Bloomsbury Opera); the Nightingale in Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty (Victorian Opera); Giannetta in Donizetti’s L’elisir D’amore (Western Sydney Opera); Monica in Menotti’s The Medium (Opera Prometheus); and Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone (Penrith Symphony Orchestra).
“Drummond impressed judges with a technically refined reading of the aria ‘Nel grave tormento’... She followed it up with Nanetta’s aria…sung with commendable control and shimmering tone. ”
ROLES
Adina* The Elixir of Love, Donizetti - English National Opera & Waterperry Opera Festival, UK 2020
Fiametta* (p) The Gondoliers, Gilbert & Sullivan - Scottish Opera, UK 2020
Phylla* (p) Utopia Limited, Gilbert & Sullivan - Scottish Opera, UK 2020
Tytania* (c) A Midsummer Nights Dream, Britten - Scottish Opera, UK 2020
Papagena^ The Magic Flute, Mozart - English National Opera, UK 2019
Giroflé/Girofla Two Weddings, One Bride, Greene - Opera Australia, AUS 2017/19
Adelaide The Enchanted Pig, Dove - Yarra Valley Opera Festival, AUS 2019
Clorinda La Cenerentola, Rossini - West Green House Opera, UK 2019
Giulietta I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini - Bloomsbury Opera, UK 2019
Tytania A Midsummer Nights Dream, Britten - Guildhall Opera Studio, UK 2019
Despina Così fan tutte, Mozart - Guildhall Opera Studio, UK 2018
Susan A Dinner Engagement, Berkeley - Guildhall Opera Studio, UK 2018
Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro Mozart - Bloomsbury Opera, UK 2018
Soeur Constance (cover) Dialogues des Carmélites, Poulenc - Guildhall Opera Studio, UK 2018
The Nightingale Sleeping Beauty, Respighi - Victorian Opera, AUS 2017
Daughter/Clare Goldring/Socialite Sydney Opera House-The Opera (The Eighth Wonder), John - Opera Australia, AUS 2016
Giannetta L’elisir d’amore, Donizetti - Western Sydney Opera, AUS 2016
Monica The Medium, Menotti - Opera Prometheus, AUS 2015
Lucy The Telephone, Menotti - Penrith Symphony, AUS 2013
Prima Conversa Suor Angelica, Puccini - Harbour City Opera, AUS 2013
(*upcoming, ^covered & performed, (p) postponed & (c) cancelled due to Covid-19)
TRAINING
Zoe completed an Artist Masters in Opera Performance with Distinction at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Zoe also holds a Bachelor of Music Performance with First Class Honours from The Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
At the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Zoe performed the roles of Tytania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Susan in Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement to excellent reviews.
She has been a Melba Opera Trust Scholar, as a proud recipient of the 2015 RJ Hamer Opera Scholarship, the 2016 and the 2017 Dame Nellie Melba Scholarship and Patrick & Vivian Gordon Award. As nominated by the Trust, Zoe was awarded The Sydney Opera House Opera Award- granting her the opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed soprano, Renee Fleming.
AWARDS
Zoe is the proud winner of Australia’s most prestigious awards, the 2018 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition Marianne Mathy Scholarship and the 2016 Opera Foundation for Young Australians Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship.
She was a Melba Opera Trust Scholar for three years, and was awarded the 2018 Australian Music Foundation Award, the 2019 JSRB Foundation Award from the Joan Sutherland/ Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Competition, and second prize in the 2016 Mietta Song Competition.
In 2016, Zoe was selected as a finalist in nearly all of Australia's most prestigious singing competitions. Zoe won the Opera Foundation for Young Australians Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship.
Additionally, Zoe won second prize in the 2016 Mietta Song Competition, the 2016 Megan Evans OAM Encouragement Award from the Joan Sutherland/Richard Bonynge Foundation and the AOAC Judith Ward Lieder Prize at the semi-finals of the IFAC Australian Singing Competition.
REVIEWS
"Soprano Zoe Drummond has been announced as the recipient of the 2016 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship, awarded by the Opera Foundation for young Australians. Zoe’s assured performance at the Scholarship Finals set her apart from five other finalists, netting her the prestigious award". LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE, OCT 2016
"...Drummond also contributed with her signature emotional presence and penetrating voice to the last movement of Mahler’s Symphony No 4 in G major. It was quite a stunning way with which to conclude the event". SYDNEY ARTS GUIDE, APRIL 2017