The Chinese soprano Ying Fang has established herself as one of the most exciting of today’s vocal soloists. She performs at international opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, the Paris Opéra, the Dutch National Opera and the Zurich Opera House, and at the Tanglewood, Verbier and Salzburg Festivals.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included her house debut at the Houston Grand Opera in Robert Wilson’s staged version of Handel’s Messiah and her returns to the Vienna State Opera as Ilia (Idomeneo) and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte). In the USA she performed in Mozart’s Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck and in Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. At the Vienna Konzerthaus she sang Mater gloriosa in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic under Andris Nelsons, and with the Manchester Camerata she performed in a Mozart concert, released by Chandos Records as the first in a series of four Mozart CDs.
Previous highlights included Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi) at the Verbier Festival, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and in Chicago, Ilia at the San Francisco Opera and her role debuts as Pamina at the Bavarian State Opera and as Marzelline (Fidelio) at the Metropolitan Opera.
On the concert stage she has appeared in Bach’s St John Passion and Mass in B minor, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Second, Fourth and Eighth Symphonies, and in works by Schubert, Schumann, Bruckner and Strauss.
She has worked with major conductors such as William Christie, Stéphane Denève, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Fabio Luisi, Alan Gilbert, Emmanuelle Haïm, Susanna Mälkki, Antonello Manacorda, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Raphaël Pichon, Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles and Nathalie Stutzmann.
Ying Fang was born in Ningbo, China, and studied at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Juilliard School in New York, before being selected to join the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera, New York. In 2009 she received the China Golden Bell Award for Music.
