Official Biography

Soprano Guanqun Yu is a regular guest at international opera houses in Europe and America. Her engagements in the 2024/25 season include her role debut as Marguerite in the new production of Gounod’s Faust at the Canadian Opera Company Toronto. In Berlin and Hong Kong, she will take on the soprano part in Aaron Zigman’s oratorio Emigré. The soprano will make another role debut this season at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, singing Medora in Verdi’s Il Corsaro for the first time.

Guanqun Yu’s repertoire includes the great Mozart roles such as Vitellia, Elettra, Contessa, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira as well as the Italian repertoire in particular. She has sung Aida at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Frankfurt Opera, Leonora (Il trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Los Angeles Opera, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and in a new production at the Hamburg State Opera, Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) in Valencia, Hamburg and Frankfurt, Desdemona (Otello) at the Palau de les Arts Valencia, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hamburg State Opera, She made her highly successful debut as Ernani-Elvira at the Bregenz Festival and sang Mimì (La Bohème) in a new production at the Zurich Opera House and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as well as Liù (Turandot) at the Metropolitan Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Hamburg State Opera, in Zurich, Cologne and at the Bregenz Festival.

Guanqun Yu is also familiar with the French repertoire singing Micaëla (Carmen) and Mathilde (Guillaume Tell) – a role which brought her a great personal triumph in a new production at Hamburg State Opera.

Her numerous engagements also led her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Semperoper Dresden. With Lucrezia in a concert performance of I due Foscari, she celebrated her highly noticed debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 next to Plácido Domingo.

Guanqun Yu has already worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Michele Mariotti and Cornelius Meister. In 2010 she made her debut in Vienna in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc under the baton of Bertrand de Billy. Numerous concert commitments have taken Guanqun Yu to Scandinavia and Germany.

Guanqun Yu is winner of the Belvedere singing competition and winner of the renowned Operalia competition. After studying in Shandong and Shanghai, she was a member of the opera studio at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Her interpretation of Lina in Verdi’s Stiffelio was released on DVD in a production from Parma.

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