Runye Zhou

Runye Zhou's Salzburg appearance came on 27 September 2025, in Opera and the Ottoman Imagination — Along the Silk Road at the International Mozarteum Foundation. The programme set Mozart's Turkish and Oriental subjects beside Verdi, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Offenbach and Puccini. Runye Zhou is a tenor from China. He attended the Internationale Sommerakademie of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in 2025, in the class of Z. Zhou, and at the close of the four-week course in August of that year was one of twelve participants awarded prize money from the Kulturfonds of the city of Salzburg.