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With a voice full of character, precision, and theatrical agility, Taiwanese tenor Ya-Chung Huang is rapidly building a reputation as a standout interpreter of Spieltenor repertoire on the international stage. Having launched his career at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Huang now appears regularly with many of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals.
In the 2025/26 season, Ya-Chung will make his debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden as the Four Servants in Les contes d’Hoffmann in a new production by Lydia Steier. At the Bayerische Staatsoper, he makes his role debut as the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel under Vladimir Jurowski, and returns as Vašek (The Bartered Bride), Goro (Madama Butterfly), and the First Jew in Salome. He also reprises the role of Mime in Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. In summer 2026, he makes his U.S. debut at Santa Fe Opera as Goro in a new production of Madama Butterfly and as Monsieur Triquet in Eugene Onegin. He will also tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as Mime in concert performances of Siegfried in Rotterdam, Dortmund, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season included his return to the Bayreuth Festival as Mime in Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Simone Young and as David in a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg conducted by Daniele Gatti. Elsewhere he returned to Theater an der Wien as Arbace and the High Priest in concert performances of Idomeneo, and to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Goro and as Merkur in Claus Guth’s new staging of Die Liebe der Danae, conducted by Sebastian Weigle. He also returned to Dutch National Opera as Shiusky in Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production of Boris Godunov and made his debuts at the Norwegian National Opera as the Schoolmaster in The Cunning Little Vixen conducted by Edward Gardner and as David in Laurent Pelly's production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Royal Danish Opera.
Recent milestones include his debut at the Royal Opera House as Goro, and at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Torquemada in L’Heure espagnole under Michele Mariotti in a new staging by Ersan Mondtag. He made a notable debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Mime, a role he has also sung with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he also appeared as Chairman Mao in Nixon in China.
On the concert platform, Huang has performed Mime in Siegfried with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest under Karina Canellakis, and appeared with the Bergen Philharmonic as the Junger Diener in Elektra, again with Edward Gardner.
Other recent guest engagements include his debut at Theater an der Wien as the Schoolmaster (The Cunning Little Vixen), Pong in Turandot at Dutch National Opera in Barrie Kosky’s new production, Bardolfo (Falstaff) at Staatsoper Hamburg, and the First Jew in Salome at the Bayerische Staatsoper under François-Xavier Roth.
A member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2018 to 2024, Ya-Chung developed a wide-ranging repertoire. Notable highlights included role debuts as Mime in Der Ring des Nibelungen and as David in a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg during the 2021/22 season. He also appeared in roles such as Jaquino (Fidelio), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Goro (Madama Butterfly), and Pong (Turandot).
Biography not for publication, for an up to date version please contact Oliver Clarke.
"Ya-Chung Huang’s Mime was, quite simply, one of the best I have seen and heard, turning the Siegfried-Mime axis into a true battle of very different tenors, for which Clay Hilley’s tireless Siegfried should also receive due credit....Huang’s ability, doubtless enhanced - yet only enhanced - by make-up and costume, to play his role as if Mime were a puppet-clown, grotesque yet also human, captured so much of the role, its uncomfortable aspects included. Above all, it reminded us of Wagner’s great achievement in showing us, as the late, greatly lamented Michael Tanner pointed out, the sheer misery that it is to be Mime. " Seen and Heard International
“The star of the afternoon, however, was Ya-Chung Huang who sang an almost ideal Mime, and did so with so much conviction that you no longer missed the decor: he had the persuasiveness, the volume and the stamina to make you imagine yourself in the Nebula Kingdom for a moment, where evil, envy, deceit and hatred reign." – Die Nieuwe Magazine
“Ya-Chung Huang was from his first note the fiercest Mime I ever heard and saw. With an erupting voice, distorted facial expressions and violent movements of his arms, and supported by a powerful orchestral accompaniment, Huang portrayed the tormented dwarf. But he also expressed himself tenderly in his narration of Sieglinde's death, surrounded by Wagner with chamber musical colours..." Opera Magazine NL
“Ya-Chung Huang achieved the "wow" feeling as the evil gnome Mime: witty and mean in his giggles, clear and articulate in the many dialogues.” – NRC.nl
“The other big surprise was the Taiwanese tenor Ya-Chung Huang, who delivered a lifelike and grandiose Mime. Dangerous, villainous, flawless and beautifully sung and wonderfully acted!.” – Trouw
“It is Ya-Chung Huang’s first Mime, and he brings redeeming depth and subtlety to the role.” – Financial Times
“An amazing Mime from Taiwan plays his way into the hearts of the audience. Ya Chung Huang. The bad dwarf here is actually a very nice guy with a Wagner cap and a joke.” – BR-Klassik
“Ya-Chung Huang’s memorable appearance as Mime in Rheingold in summer 2021 had whetted my curiosity about the young Taiwanese tenor, a recent ensemble addition at Deutsche Oper. Six months later, Huang once again lent the lithe beauty and expressive richness of his voice to the charmingly villainous dwarf. It was a smooth, persuasive performance that combined pathos with humor. Ya-Chung channeled Mime’s high shrieks, manic laughter, stammering apologies and equivocations in a fresh, quick-witted performance that ranked among this cycle’s most accomplished” – Tages Spiegel
"Tenor Ya-Chung Huang sings brilliantly! The Taiwanese tenor sings the mime with perhaps the biggest voice I've ever experienced in this role. He also plays the Wagner caricature brilliantly. Really great!" – RBB-Online
“…especially Ya-Chung Huang as a mime is in a class of his own. Nimble and agile, he plays the eloquent but unsuccessful manipulator Siegfried.” – Opern-Kritic
"In addition to numerous animal roles, tenor Ya-Chung Huang can wander in amazement through his own imaginary worlds as the composing Janáček. He not only explores the merging of animals and humans and the cycle of life, but also conjures up the spirits of 400 years of operatic history. In the finale, Tosca and Cleopatra, Butterfly and Carmen finally gather in the theater forest, the Nutcracker dances next to the Rosenkavalier, and an evening of opera becomes the dazzling Noah's Ark of music theater.” – Wiener Zeitung
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