Leyla Gu, born in China in 1992, trained in Italy at the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro Regio di Parma, graduating from the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory. Since 2022, she has been a doctoral candidate under the guidance of ChangYong Liao and currently studies with Roberto Servile. She has debuted in roles such as Pamina, Mimì, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, and Violetta in La Traviata. In 2024, she performed Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly aboard the aircraft carrier Garibaldi, the first opera ever staged on a military ship, and in 2025 she sang Amelia in Simon Boccanegra aboard the training ship Amerigo Vespucci. She has won numerous international awards, including First Prize at the San Colombano Competition and at the Teatro Fraschini, and was the only Chinese singer selected for the 2017 Georg Solti Academy.