Name: In Song: Meigui Zhang
Uploaded: 2024-02-14T07:58:14.000Z

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Meigui Zhang

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For soprano Meigui Zhang, pursuing her dream of opera meant life a world away from her homeland and loved ones in her native China. There, as a child she would sing to passersby on the grounds of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, where her parents — a traditional folk singer and a classical tenor — taught and performed.

In this new episode of "In Song," filmed in New York City and Chengdu, Zhang reflects on the words of Eva Dell'Acqua's song "Villanelle," which she performs with pianist Ken Noda:

"I have followed for a long time with my eyes / the flight of the traveler… / Since then, my dreaming soul accompanies her through the skies / To the mysterious land!"

Shortly before her star turn as Dai Yu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" at San Francisco Opera, the fast-rising artist reconnects with her family in Chengdu and collaborates with virtuoso musician Zhou Yi on the Kazakh folk song "A Lovely Rose."

"In Song: Meigui Zhang" is now online: sfopera.com/insong #INSongSF (Produced with Lumahai Productions | Directed by Elena Park)

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In Song: Meigui Zhang

Meigui Zhang (张玫瑰) performing "Comme autrefois" from Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers during the first round of the 2023 Cardiff Singer Of The World competition. 

The Chinese soprano makes her Los Angeles Opera debut in Don Giovanni (Zerlina) and her debut with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood in Così fan tutte (Despina). She also joins the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in J.L. Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed Earth. The 2022/23 season features an exciting role debut as Euridice in San Francisco Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice, her Atlanta Opera debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and a return to the Metropolitan Opera covering Ilia in Idomeneo. She also features as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the North Carolina Symphony, Beethoven Missa solemnis with Bard College’s The Orchestra Now, and Bruckner’s Te Deum with New Jersey Symphony.

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Meigui Zhang - Comme autrefois from The Pearl Fishers (CSOTW, 12th June 2023)

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