“Her voice floats and cuts through space, creating extraordinary and intricately layered beauty.”

OperaWire (USA)

Meigui Zhang is a rising Chinese soprano who has swiftly gained international recognition on the world’s classical music stage.

She is an alumna of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera and the Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera.

In the 2025/26 season, Zhang will perform as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing this July. In November, she will portray Guanyin in Ruo Huang’s Monkey King at the San Francisco Opera.

In the 2024/25 season, she sang Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at NCPA; performed in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland; collaborated with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla in Spain; returned to the San Francisco Opera to open the season as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera; and performed Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with both the Atlanta Opera and Opera Carolina. She also reprised Barbarina in Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera.

In the 2023/24 season, under the baton of James Conlon, she opened the Los Angeles Opera season as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. At the prestigious Tanglewood Festival, she sang Despina in Così fan tutte with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She portrayed Musetta in La Bohème at the Fort Worth Opera, held a solo recital in Chicago, and performed Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the New York Choral Society. She also collaborated with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson, and reunited with The Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin for John Luther Adams’s Vespers of the Blessed Earth at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, following its premiere at Carnegie Hall and Kimmel Center.

In the 2022/23 season, Zhang made a notable return to San Francisco Opera after her success as Lin Daiyuin Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber, this time performing Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Peter Whelan. She sang Zerlina again in Don Giovanni at the Atlanta Opera, conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig. Her concert highlights included Mozart’s Requiem with Carlos Miguel Prieto and the North Carolina Symphony, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Bard College Orchestra, and Bruckner’s Te Deum with Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

Collaborating Conductors and Orchestras

Meigui Zhang has worked with a number of renowned conductors, including Joseph Colaneri, Bertrand de Billy, Dean Williamson, Valery Gergiev, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Marco Armiliato, Antonello Manacorda, Stéphane Denève, Long Yu, Tang Muhai, Zhong Xu, Yi Huang, and Xian Zhang. She has appeared with leading orchestras and opera companies such as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Santa Cruz Symphony, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, NCPA Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, Guangzhou Symphony, Hangzhou Philharmonic, Tianjin Symphony, Harbin Symphony, Sichuan Symphony, Suzhou Symphony, and Shenzhen Symphony, among others.

Education and Recognition

Meigui Zhang earned her undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance and Opera from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory, where she studied under the legendary soprano Xiaoyan Zhou. She later received a Master’s degree with full scholarship from the Mannes School of Music in New York, where she was the only Chinese recipient of the prestigious George and Elizabeth Award for Outstanding Talent.

Her accolades include:

• Prix Yves Paternot, top honor at the 2019 Verbier Festival (Switzerland)
• Finalist and prizewinner at the Queen Sonja International Music Competition (Norway, 2019)
• Audience Favorite Award, 2020 Glyndebourne Opera Cup (UK)
• 2nd Prize, 2020 Opera Index Competition (USA)
• 1st Prize, 2021 Premiere Opera International Vocal Competition (USA)
• 4th Prize, 2024 Giulio Gari Foundation Vocal Competition (USA)