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Ya-Chung Huang is fast establishing himself as one of the leading Spieltenors of his generation; beginning his career at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he now regularly performs on many of the worlds leading stages.
This season, Ya-Chung Huang will make his debut at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Goro Madama Butterfly, a role he will also sing at the Bayerische Staatsoper; he will make his debut at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as the Torquemada in a new production of L’Heure espagnole conducted by Michele Mariotti and at the Salzburg Festival he will make his debut as Prince Nilsky in Peter Sellars’s new production of The Gambler. While at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, highlights will include Mime Das Ring des Nibelungen and his role debut as Chairman Mao in a new production of Nixon in China.
Ya-Chung will also make his debut with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra in a concert performance of Mime Siegfried conducted by Karina Canellakis and with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra as Ein junger diener in a concert performance of Elektra conducted by Kirill Petrenko.
Further ahead, Ya-Chung will return to The Royal Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, Dutch National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin and he will make his debuts at the Santa Fe Opera, Theatres de Champs-Elysses, Norwegian National Opera and Teatro Real, Madrid.
Recent guest engagements have included his debut at Theater an der Wien as the Schoolmaster in a new production of The Cunning Little Vixen directed by Stefan Herheim; at Dutch National Opera as Pong in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Turandot; at the Staatsoper Hamburg as Bardolfo Falstaff and at the Bayerische Staatsoper as 1st Jew Salome conducted by François-Xavier Roth.
Ya-Chung has been a member of the Ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2018/19 Season, and in the 2021/22 season made role debuts as Mime Das Ring des Nibelungen and as David in a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; he has also appeared as Jaquino in a new production of Fidelio and as Pedrillo, Monostatos, Goro and Pong.
Biography not for publication, for an up to date version please contact Oliver Clarke.
“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