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

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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[@andersoncarvalho4617]

EXCELENTE!!!!! 🏆🙏

[@purser01]

What a splendid performance. I watched this aria performed by the winner in the 1987 contest. It is fair to say and not criticising the soprano who won that contest, that this is far superior.