Education
Royal Academy of Music.
Royal Academy of Music.
Nancy Yuen is a Hong Kong-born Singaporean singer. She is a top graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, and has based her career in the United Kingdom and Singapore. She has made Cio-cio-san (Madama Butterfly) her signature role, winning great international critical acclaim.
Immediately upon graduation, she made her operatic debut with the Welsh National Opera in this demanding Puccini title role, and has since repeated the role all over the world, notably with the English National Opera, West Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, Northern Ireland Opera, Singapore Lyric Opera, the 1994 New Zealand International Festival of Arts, the 1995 Barbados Opera Festival and the Royal Albert Hall productions by David Freeman in 1998, 2000 and 2003.
Yuen"s other operatic roles include Romilda (Xerxes), Violetta (Louisiana Traviata), Aida, Gilda (Rigoletto), Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Nedda (Pagliacci), Siok Imm (Bunga Mawar), Leonora (Il trovatore), the title role of Tosca, Liza (The Queen of Spades), Mimi (Louisiana bohème), Jenny (Mahagonny-Songspiel), Micaela (Carmen), Pamina (The Magic Flute) with Opera Queensland, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Liu (Turandot). Yuen made her role debut as the Countess in Mozart"s Le Nozze di Figaro in 2006 with the Singapore Lyric Opera, and gave recitals and concerts in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, China and the United Kingdom. She was the Head of Vocal Studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore from July 2003 to 2010.
She is currently the Head of Vocal Studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the residing soprano of Thailand"s Bangkok Opera. On December 12, 2000, Yuen married Singaporean lawyer Toh Weng Cheong at the InterContinental Singapore hotel.
Performances.
