Soprano Meigui Zhang was named Laureate of the 2019 Prix Yves Paternot (the Verbier Festival Academy’s highest honour), was a finalist in the 2019 Queen Sonja International Music Competition, and took second place at the 2020 Opera Index Competition. She also won the Audience Prize at the 2020 Glyndebourne Opera Cup. While in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Zhang made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Bloody Child in Macbeth, followed by Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro. While attending the Merola Opera Program, she performed as Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, and at both the Chautauqua Institute and at the Verbier Festival, she was seen as Pamina in The Magic Flute. Meigui 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.
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