A native of Ningbo in China, soprano Ying Fang is making her Salzburg Festival debut as Ilia (Idomeneo). During the 2018/19 season she returned to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for Servilia (La clemenza di Tito) and sang in concerts with the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Malaysian Philharmonic, working with conductors who included Jaap van Zweden, Franz Welser-Möst, Andris Nelsons and Susanna Mälkki.
Past engagements have taken Ying Fang to the Metropolitan Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Vancouver Opera, the Opéra de Lille, Opera Philadelphia, the Wolf Trap Opera Company and the Aspen Opera Theater Center, among others. The varied roles she has sung there include Mozart’s Pamina, Susanna, Zerlina, Konstanze and Zaide, Morgana (Alcina), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Bellezza (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride), Elvira (L’italiana in Algeri), the Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims), Fanny (La cambiale di matrimonio), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Nannetta (Falstaff), the Young Shepherd (Tannhäuser), the Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel), Noémie (Cendrillon), Jano (Jenůfa), Podtochina’s Daughter (The Nose) and the Spirit of the Boy (Curlew River). Among the eminent conductors with whom she has worked are James Levine, Andrew Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Carlo Rizzi, Alan Gilbert, William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm, Marc Minkowski, Jesús López Cobos, Bernard Labadie, Nathalie Stutzmann and Manfred Honeck.
As a concert artist Ying Fang has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and the Music of the Baroque Orchestra in works that have included Mahler’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, Handel’s Messiah and Silete venti, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri in a staging by Peter Sellars, Fauré’s Requiem, Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts and Bernstein’s West Side Story. The venues where she has appeared include New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls, Washington’s Kennedy Center and the Verbier, Aix-en-Provence and Ravinia Festivals.
Ying Fang studied in Shanghai and at the Juilliard School in New York, where she was also a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
