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Meigui Zhang (张玫瑰, born 1993, pinyin: Méiguī Zhāng ) is a Chinese operatic soprano singer.

Early Life and Education
Born in Chengdu, China, she started to play the piano at 7 years old, play the violin at 15 years old. Meigui earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Sichuan Conservatory of Music where she was a pupil of Zhou Xiaoyan before moving to the United State. In 2018 she graduated with Master of Music degree from Mannes School of Music in New York City. While at Mannes she was a pupil of Diana Soviero and performed many roles in such operas as Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Gilda in Rigoletto.

Career
After graduation, she performed as Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with the San Francisco Opera's Merola Opera Program. In 2018-2020, Ms. Zhang made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Bloody Child in Macbeth, followed by Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro while in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

In the 2022-23 Season, She 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 John Luther Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed Earth. And the 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. In concerts, she features as the soprano soloist in Mozart 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, Chinese Lunar New Year Concert with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

The 2021-22 Season sparkled with notable performances with esteemed venues. At the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Zhang sang an “energetic, bright-voiced Thibault” in Sir David McVicar’s Don Carlos under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, as well as reprised her “warm, honeyed” Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro. She also made her triumphant debut at the San Francisco Opera starring in the lead role of Dai Yu in Bright Sheng’s The Dream of the Red Chamber. As a soprano soloist, she performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 throughout China with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing (NCPA), Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival, and New Year Concerts with both the Xi’an and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.

In previous seasons, Ms. Zhang performed with Switzerland’s Verbier Festival in Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), Opera National Bordeaux and Guangzhau Opera House in Don Giovanni (Zerlina), Philadelphia Orchestra in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Tianjin Grand Opera in The Rape of Lucretia (Lucia), and Harbin Symphony Orchestra in Fidelio (Marzelline). Additional roles performed include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Despina in Così fan tutte, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, and the title role in Roméo et Juliette. Previous concert appearances include Mozart’s ‘Exsultate, jubilate’ with the New Jersey Symphony, Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano & Orchestra with Camerata Notturna, and solo recitals at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium and Miami’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center with pianist Ken Noda.

Ms. Zhang is the recipient of the George and Elizabeth Award, the Grand Prize winner of the 2019 Verbier Festival “Prix Yves Paternot”, a finalist in the 2019 Queen Sonja International Music Competition, and second place at the 2020 Opera Index Competition. She won the Audience Prize at the 2020 Glyndebourne Opera Cup, the First Prize at the 2021 Premiere Opera Foundation International Competition.