Soprano Guanqun Yu is a regular guest at international opera houses in Europe and America. Her engagements in the 2024/25 season include her role debut as Marguerite in the new production of Gounod's Faust at the Canadian Opera Company Toronto. In Berlin and Hong Kong, she will take on the soprano part in Aaron Zigman's oratorio Emigré. The soprano will make another role debut this season at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, singing Medora in Verdi's Il Corsaro for the first time.
The soprano is gifted with a diamond-like mezzo, pure and crystalline. The vocality is bright, carried with beautiful phrasing
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