Cathy-Di Zhang

Soprano

Award-winning Australian soprano Cathy-Di Zhang is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. Since returning to Australia in 2019, she has sung a number of leading roles for the nation’s major performing arts organisations.

For Opera Australia, she has appeared as Micaëla in Carmen and Rosina in The Barber of Seville; for Pinchgut Opera – Amour/La folie in Rameau’s Platée and Créuse in Charpentier’s Médée; Mimì in La bohème for State Opera South Australia; Zhu YingTai in Richard Mills’ new work The Butterfly Lovers for Victorian Opera.

In 2023, Cathy-Di sang Zerlina in Don Giovanni for Opera Australia, Zhu YingTai in The Butterfly Lovers in Singapore and returned to Opera Australia as Rosina. In 2024, she sang Euridice/Amore in Gluck’s Orphée and Musetta in La bohème for Opera Australia; she returns to the national company in 2025 as Musetta and Paquette (Candide).

Prior to the pandemic, Cathy-Di sang the role of Mädchen in a new production of Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny for Festival d’Aix-en-Provence under Esa-Pekka Salonen and, subsequently, for Dutch National Opera under Markus Stenz. Her other operatic roles have included Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) and Lisa (La sonnambula).

She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras throughout Europe and Asia and has performed regularly in chamber music across Italy in trio and quartet (with violin, cello and piano).