Hui He

Chinese soprano Hui He won second prize in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in Los Angeles in 2000 and was immediately invited to appear with him in concert in Shanghai. The following year she won first prize in the Città di Busseto International Competition for Verdi Voices.

Her international breakthrough came in 2002 when she sang Tosca at the Teatro Regio in Turin and in 2003 when she was heard as Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux. Today she is one of the most acclaimed interpreters not only of Cio-Cio-San and Tosca but also of the title role in Aida and has been invited to appear in many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses. Among her most important house debuts have been Lina in Verdi’s Stiffelio at the Vienna State Opera, Tosca at La Scala, Milan and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Cio-Cio-San at the Paris Opéra and Aida at both the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other engagements have taken her to the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Berlin State Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Rome Opera, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, the Dallas Opera and the Arena di Verona.

Among the roles in which Hui He was heard in 2017/18 and 2018/19 were Elvira (Ernani) in Marseille, Amelia (Un ballo in maschera) at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the title role in La Gioconda at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Cio-Cio-San at the Met as well as at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and for the Zurich Opera, Tosca at the Dresden Semperoper, Turandot at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Adriana Lecouvreur and Aida at the Arena di Verona. In July 2019 she made her role debut as Mimì (La bohème) at the Puccini Festival.