ARTIST AVATAR
Soprano
Ying Fang
China

About

Biography

During the 2025-26 season, Ying Fang makes her HGO debut as the soprano soloist in Messiah. This season she appears as Pamina in The Magic Flute and Ilia in Idomeneo at the Wiener Staatsoper and makes her role debut as Juliet in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Dutch National Opera and Ballet. On the concert platform she appears as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wiener Philharmoniker. In the 2024-25 season, Fang made her house debut at the Royal Ballet and Opera – Covent Garden as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro in a production by Sir David McVicar and returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago for the same role. She debuted at the Bavarian State Opera as Pamina in The Magic Flute and made her role debut as Marzelline in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, which was broadcast as part of The Met Live in HD series. She also performed as Ilia in Idomeneo in her house debut at San Francisco Opera. In the 2023-2024 season, Fang returned to Opéra national de Paris as Zerlina in Don Giovanni; Dutch National Opera as Poppea in Agrippina and Pamina in The Magic Flute; the Metropolitan Opera in her role debut as Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice; and Santa Fe Opera in her role debut as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. Fang is the recipient of the Martin E. Segal Award, the Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award, the Sullivan Foundation’s Rose Bampton Award, The Opera Index Award, and First Prize at the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition. In 2009, she became one of the youngest singers to win one of China’s most prestigious awards: the China Golden Bell Award for Music. Fang holds a master’s degree and an Artist Diploma in Opera Study from The Juilliard School and a bachelor’s degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She is a former member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. 

HGO repertoire

HGO DEBUT SEASON