A couple of “sliding doors” moments led Cathy-Di Zhang from accountancy to the top of the performing arts.
on January 5, but were it not for a couple of twists of fate, she could just as easily be auditing its financial statements.at Sydney Opera House has Zhang “excited and terrified at the same time”, but definitely feeling better about the bet she took 12 years ago to leave a coveted graduate role at Deloitte to pursue an opera career.
“I wanted to sing pop if I’m honest, but Cathy happened to be an opera singer, and she started weaving some of that repertoire in between the power ballads and the musical theatre,” Zhang says. “They both had finance and accounting backgrounds and that seemed like the natural route for me to take.”But as she put her head down at UNSW’s Business School, Zhang didn’t entirely abandon her dreams. She enrolled in, a philanthropy-backed bridge for budding opera singers between tertiary education and gaining professional work.
She settled for an internship at Deloitte – “they seemed like the most fun of the big four” – and then won a graduate job for 2009, after a gruelling interview process she says prepared her well for auditions later on. Cathy-Di Zhang as Rosina and Nicholas Jones as Count Almaviva in Opera Australia’s The Barber of Seville.Encouraged by her Pacific Opera colleagues, that December, Zhang auditioned for London’s Royal Academy Of Music, freezing in the summery dress she had packed.
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