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Chinese soprano Ying Fang has been praised as “indispensable at the Met in Mozart” (The New York Times) and for “a voice that can stop time, pure and rich and open and consummately expressive” (Financial Times).
Ms. Fang begins the 2024/2025 season making her long awaited house debut at the Royal Opera Covent Garden as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro in a production by Sir David McVicar, followed by a return to Lyric Opera of Chicago for the same role. She debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and makes her role debut as Marzelline in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera opposite Lise Davidsen, conducted by Susanna Mälkki and broadcasted as part of The Met Live in HD series. She also sings Ilia in Idomeneo in her house debut at San Francisco Opera. On the concert stage, she joins the Sydney Symphony and Sir Donald Runnicles for Mahler’s 4th symphony and Lieder of Richard Strauss, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons as Mater Gloriosa in Mahler’s Eighth symphony, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montreal and Yannick Nézet-Séguin for her first Beethoven 9, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Raphaël Pichon at Carnegie Hall for a program of Schubert, Schumann, and Weber. She tours with Ensemble Pygmalion and Mo. Pichon, bringing Bach’s Johannespassion to venues including Teatro alla Scala, Notre-Dame de Paris, Vienna Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. She tours with NHK Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi, bringing Mahler’s 4th Symphony to the Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Dresden Kulturpalast, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in Antwerp.
In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Fang returned to Opéra national de Paris as Zerlina in Don Giovanni conducted by Antonello Manacorda, Dutch National Opera as Poppea in Agrippina and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte conducted by Riccardo Minasi, the Metropolitan Opera in her role debut as Euridice in Orfeo ed Eudidice, and Santa Fe Opera in her role debut as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. On the concert stage, she reunited with conductor Raphaël Pichon for Mozart’s C Minor Mass in her debut with the Munich Philharmonic, and joined Noord Nederlands Orkest for Ein Deutsches Requiem, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Fourth symphony with Susanna Mälkki, and sang Carmina Burana with the St. Louis Symphony under the baton of Stéphane Denève and the Orchestra of St. Lukes at Carnegie Hall.
