"Yajie Zhang has the most even, warm, and round mezzo-soprano imaginable. [...] a voice that seems to be cast in one piece, in which seems to resonate a fine melancholy; the famous lacrima nella voce, which is able to touch the heart."
Der Opernfreund
"...Zhang creates a full, even, and well-rounded sound with great importance to interpretation, giving her role a youthful, playful appeal. Zhang is clearly the discovery of the evening."
Opernmagazin
"In a velvet suit with a black bow around her waist, Yajie Zhang impresses with her soft, legato mezzo. Waves of love and music swing through the hall in a wonderfully balanced way. With perfect Italianità this melodically blossoming singing inspires."
Brugsklassiker
"Yajie Zhang gives the trouser role of Zanetto a strong profile. With a warm mezzo-soprano that is strikingly even in all registers, she is the discovery of the evening."
magazin.klassik.com
“Then true love enters the garden in the form of the young troubadour Zanetto - a prime role for the beguilingly sensual and sonorous mezzo-soprano, Yajie Zhang.“
Tagesspiegel
“The excellent young mezzo-soprano Yajie Zhang [...] has a strikingly attractive voice — smooth, rounded, ebony-coloured.”
Abendzeitung München, Michael Bastian Weiß, 11.09.2020
“Yajie Zhang's personality and her [...] richly facetted mezzo-soprano were captivating from the very beginning.”
RBB Kultur, Clemens Goldberg, 15.01.2020
“At the close of the nearly two-hour-long programme, the Shanghai-born mezzo-soprano Yajie Zhang gave life to songs by Schumann, Debussy and Brahms with such a range and depth of expression it was hard to believe she was raised in an entirely different culture and only came into contact with the German language in the past four years.”
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Christop Wagner, 26.03.2019
“Yajie Zhang, who performed Hope and Music, brought a beautiful mezzo voice with clean coloratura line. […] The voice is something to look out for.”
Operawire, Francisco Salazar, 22.10.2018
“Anyone who witnessed the way the extraordinarily voiced (and only 23-years-old) Yaije Zhang roused not just the audience but also the seasoned Brigitte Fassbaender, saw her render the future of singing a little less fraught.”
Deutschlandfunk, Bjørn Woll, 05.04.2016