“Her voice literally floated past the space she stood in and “lived in” and created remarkable, layered beauty.” — OperaWire

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Ms. Zhang opens the 2024/25 season debuting the role of Oscar in Un ballo in maschera with San Francisco Opera, followed by appearances as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with both the Atlanta Opera and Opera Carolina. She then reprises her “warm, honeyed” Barbarina with the Metropolitan Opera in Le nozze di Figaro.

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Highly regarded for her interpretations of Mozart’s works, Ms. Zhang has appeared as Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Atlanta Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Guangzhou Opera House; Despina in Così fan tutte with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood; and Ilia in Idomeneo (cover) with the Metropolitan Opera. At the Verbier Festival, where she was a Laureate of the 2019 Prix Yves Paternot, Ms. Zhang was seen as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. She has also been a featured soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the North Carolina Symphony and

“Exsultate, jubilate” with the New Jersey Symphony.

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Ms. Zhang made her triumphant Carnegie Hall debut in 2023, joining the Philadelphia Orchestra in J.L. Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed Earth and later reprised the performance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. In the following season, Ms. Zhang debuted with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla for Canteloube’s Chants d'Auvergne, Fort Worth Opera as

Musetta in La bohème, and starred as the title role in Roméo et Juliette at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Previous seasons sparkled with notable performances at esteemed venues, including her debut as Euridice in San Francisco Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice opposite countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński; and her “energetic, bright-voiced Thibault'' in Sir David McVicar’s Don Carlos under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Ms. Zhang has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Tianjin Grand Opera in The Rape of Lucretia (Lucia), and Harbin Symphony Orchestra in Fidelio (Marzelline).

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Ms. Zhang’s connection to her cultural roots is a hallmark of her career: she brings to life rarely performed works by Chinese composers, offering audiences a fresh perspective that intertwines her rich heritage with her operatic prowess. These works have brought Ms. Zhang to prominent stages worldwide, including her world premiere performance of Aaron Zigman & Mark Campbell’s Émigré with the New York Philharmonic and Shanghai

Symphony, a work she also recorded with Deutsche Grammophon; and her grand debut as the lead role Dai Yu in Bright Sheng’s The Dream of the Red Chamber with San Francisco Opera.

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As a soloist, Ms. Zhang performed throughout China in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and various

concerts with both the Xi’an and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestras. She performed Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with Bard College’s The Orchestra Now, Bruckner’s Te Deum with New Jersey Symphony, Bach’s Coffee Cantata

with Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival, and solo recitals with pianist Ken Noda at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium and Miami’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center.

 

While in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Zhang made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Bloody Child in Macbeth; and at the Merola Opera Program, she performed as

Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress. Additional roles in her repertoire include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.

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Ms. Zhang represented China in the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. She was a finalist in the 2019 Queen Sonja International Music Competition; took second place at the 2020 Opera Index Competition; and

won the Audience Prize at the 2020 Glyndebourne Opera Cup. Ms. Zhang earned her master’s degree from the Mannes School of Music, where she was a recipient of the George and Elizabeth Award, and completed her

bachelor’s degree at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.