Zhengyi Bai

Career Trajectory

Zhengyi Bai trained initially in Shandong before pursuing advanced vocal studies at USC Thornton, where he earned his graduate certificate in 2018. His professional breakthrough came through the prestigious Merola and Adler Fellowship programs at San Francisco Opera, launching a career defined by character tenor roles across the American opera circuit. With performances at Opera San José, Los Angeles Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and forthcoming appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, Bai has established himself as a reliable, dramatically engaged interpreter of the lyric-spinto repertoire.