Guanqun Yu
Soprano
© Jiyang Chen
Guanqun Yu is back in Frankfurt for the title role in this new Aida. Roles so far this season have included Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at Los Angeles Opera, where she returns for Liù (Turandot), and Leonora (Il trovatore) at the Hamburg State Opera. Her repertoire encompasses leading ladies in Mozart and Italian repertoire, including Leonora at the Met in New York, Los Angeles Opera and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) in Valencia, Hamburg and Frankfurt, Desdemona (Otello) at the Palau de les Arts Valencia, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in Hamburg, Elvira (Ernani at the Bregenz Festival, Mimì (La Bohème) at Zurich Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Liù at the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra de Paris, in Zürich, Hamburg, Cologne and the Bregenz Festival. Other engagements have included, and in French repertoire, appearances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Semperoper in Dresden, and Lucrezia in a concert performance of I due Foscari with Plácido Domingo at the Salzburg Festival. She has worked with conductors including Bertrand de Billy, James Levine, Michele Mariotti, Zubin Mehta and Cornelius Meister. Guanqun Yu won the Belvedere and Operalia competitions. She joined the Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s Opera Studio after studying in Shandong and Shanghai.