Bai, Zhengyi
(Linyi, China)
2026–27 Season: Mimi, Das Rheingold
San Francisco Opera Highlights: Monostatos in The Magic Flute; Hunchback in Die Frau ohne Schatten; First Prisoner in Fidelio; Dancing Master/Lamplighter in Manon Lescaut; Remendado in Carmen
Recent and Upcoming: Monostatos in The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, Opera San Antonio); Fourth Jew in Salome (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Madwoman in Benjamin Britten Curlew River (Lorraine Opera); Prince Nilsky in Prokofiev's The Gambler (Salzburg Festival); Prince Charming in Cendrillon (Opera Orlando); Colin in The Anonymous Lover (Boston Lyric Opera); Pang in Turandot (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Goro in Madama Butterfly (Viriginia Opera, Florentine Opera, Kentucky Opera); Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera San José); Doctor Caius in Falstaff (San José)
San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship: 2019, 2020, 2021
Merola Opera Program: 2018
