Shengquan Jin
as Miguel De Cervantes (Don Quixote and Alonso Quijana)
Jin Shengquan, a singer and actor, graduated in vocal performance degree from China Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music, is studying musical theatre at NYU Steinhardt. Jin has portrayed roles in plays like West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and The King and I. Jin has been invited to TV shows like Super-vocal Ep1-12(HNTV), I Am Not a Star Ep3-12(ZJTV), Singing Everyday(CCTV3), Tian-Tian-Xiang-Shang (HNTV), Let Music Tell You(CCTV15), and The Best Chinese Family Tradition(HBTV). He also published albums: The Hero’s Song (Childhood), Jin Shengquan, and My Favorite English Collection. Jin has been invited to global event, such as I Come from Beijing Concert in Los Angeles Dolby Theatre, New Year Concert in Hong Kong, The Third International Chinese Arts Festival Concert in Singapore, Beautiful Voice of Chinese Singers in Carnegie Hall, and Mid-Autumn Festival Concert in Peking Great Hall of People. https://jin-shengquan.com
Daiyao Zhong
as Aldonza
Emerging mezzo-soprano Daiyao Zhong is currently an undergraduate scholarship recipient at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2017, Ms.Zhong made her debut as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with New York Lyric Opera Theatre in the National Opera Center. In 2018, she was invited back again as Cherubino and the 3rd lady in Die Zauberflöte. In the summer of 2016 and 2017, Ms.Zhong performed the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon and the role of Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in the Opera Scenes Concert at IVAI. During her study in Manhattan School of Music, she sang the role of Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring in the senior opera project of Manhattan School of Music. Her other previous scene roles include: Erika (Vanessa), Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito), Siebel (Faust), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Mallika (Lakmé), Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Dido (Dido and Aeneas).