Mingjie Lei performing "Magische Töne" from Karl Goldmark's opera Die Königin von Saba during the 2019 Cardiff Singer Of The World Final.
The Chinese tenor went on to win that year's Song Prize.
Mingjie Lei studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Manhattan School of Music in New York and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He participated in the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera and was a member of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Recent engagements include staged performances of Haydn’s Missa in tempori belli, Don Narciso (Il turco in Italia) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale) in Hamburg and Zurich, Saëb (Barkouf) in Zurich, Fenton (Falstaff) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Ferrando in concert performances of Così fan tutte with musicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis in St Petersburg, Vienna, Bremen and Lucerne, where he also appeared in concert with Cecilia Bartoli. Other appearances include Fenton at Opera Colorado and Egeo (Medea in Corinto) at the Teatro Nuovo in New York, as well as Iopas (Les Troyens), Remendado (Carmen) and Gastone (La traviata alongside Plácido Domingo) in Chicago.
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