Ya-Chung Huang

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, he 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 David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and 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).