Ying Fang

Chinese soprano Ying Fang has been praised for “a voice that can stop time — pure, rich, open and flawlessly expressive” (Financial Times).

In the 2022/23 season, she returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Ilia in Idomeneo and as Zerlina in a new production of Don Giovanni, and to the Salzburg Festival as Nannetta in a new production of Falstaff.

In the 2021/22 season, she made her house debut at the Opéra national de Paris as Susanna in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro, a role she also sang at the Metropolitan Opera and at the Matsumoto Festival in Japan. She additionally returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and made her role debut as Ännchen in a new production of Der Freischütz at Dutch National Opera. She also sang Oscar in Un ballo in maschera (role debut) at the Verbier Festival.

In recent seasons, she has appeared at Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra de Lille, Vancouver Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Washington National Opera, Wolf Trap Opera Company, the Aspen Opera Theater Center and the Juilliard School, in works such as L’Italiana in Algeri (Elvira), Jenůfa (Jano), Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna), L’elisir d’amore (Adina), Alcina (Morgana), Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Bellezza), Tannhäuser (Hirt), Hänsel und Gretel (Taumännchen), Falstaff (Nannetta), Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra), Il viaggio a Reims (Contessa di Folleville), Zaïde (title role), The Nose (Daughter of Podtochina), Don Giovanni (Zerlina), La cambiale di matrimonio (Fanny), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze) and Curlew River (Spirit of the Boy).

She is also active internationally as a concert artist. Ying Fang studied at the Juilliard School and at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and is a former member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

She made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.