Cathy-Di Zhang

Soprano

Award-winning Australian soprano Cathy-Di Zhang is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London.

For Opera Australia, she has appeared as Musetta in La bohème, Micaëla in Carmen, Euridice/Amore in Orphée, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Paquette in Candide 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.

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).