Cathy-Di Zhang
Cathy-Di Zhang
Soprano
As a principal artist for Opera Australia, award-winning Australian soprano Cathy-Di Zhang
has performed Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Eurydice/Amore (Orpheus & Eurydice), Paquette (Candide), and the Spirit ‘Mercury’ (Dido & Aeneas). On the company’s national tours, she appeared again as Rosina, as well as Micaëla (Carmen) and Musetta (La bohème). In 2026, she joined the ensemble for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: The Phantom of the Opera, reprised Zerlina for the national tour of Don Giovanni, and appeared in Gilbert & Sullivan: A Musical Celebration.
Cathy-Di’s work with Pinchgut Opera includes Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Amour/La Folie (Rameau’s Platée), Créuse (Charpentier’s Médée), and La Conversation/Eurilla (Charpentier’s Pleasures of Versailles). She created the role of Nancy (Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorized Opera) for the Sydney Festival and has sung Mimì (La bohème) with State Opera South Australia. For Victorian Opera, she premiered Zhu YingTai (Richard Mills’ The Butterfly Lovers), earning a Green Room Award nomination, and subsequently reprised the role in Singapore with Wild Rice Theatre. She appeared as Mädchen in a new production of Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, before taking the role to Dutch National Opera. Cathy-Di returns to State Opera South Australia in 2026 as Frasquita (Carmen).
Cathy-Di is active in chamber music, recital, and orchestral performance. She has performed Massenet’s Élégie for soprano, cello, and piano at the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival and was featured in concert at UKARIA with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Cathy-Di’s orchestral credits include Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs) and Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Perth Symphonic Chorus). She joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and sang Zheng Qiufeng’s Pamir, How Beautiful My Hometown to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
© Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2026
Bio updated August 2026
