Wu, Hongni

(Jiangxi, China)

2025–26 Season: Crab General/Venus Star, Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's The Monkey King; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Bao Chai in Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang's Dream of the Red Chamber

Recent and Upcoming: Kitchen Boy in Rusalka (London's Royal Ballet and Opera, Opera Royal de Wallonie); Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (London, Copenhagen's Royal Danish Opera);  Flora in La Traviata (London); Mercédès in Carmen (London); Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte (London); Siebel in Faust (London); title role of Hans Werner Henze's Phaedra (London); Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro (Santa Fe Opera); Angelina in La Cenerentola (Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova); Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Pacific Opera Victoria); Comrade Chin/Shu Fung in Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly (Santa Fe); Mahler's Third Symphony (Philharmonia Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall); Tan Dun's Buddha Passion (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia); Brahms, Dvořák and De Falla concert (Shanghai Symphony Hall)

Winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2018)