Huang Ying, a lyric coloratura soprano and opera singer, is an outstanding Chinese vocal artist active worldwide in opera and concert performances, TV and movie productions as well as recording studios. Known as the first Chinese vocalist to perform a major operatic role in the West, Huang Ying came to international attention when she made a sensational debut in the acclaimed opera movie Madame Butterfly. Since then, she has appeared on the stage of many of leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Cologne Opera House, China National Center of Performing Arts, performing major roles in Le Nozze di Figaro, L'elisir d'amore, and Rigoletto, among many others.
On December 29, 2006, Huang Ying starred in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, the first in the "Met HD Live" series, which was broadcasted live worldwide. In 2009, Huang Ying was elected to be on the "Wall of Fame" during the Met's 125th Anniversary celebration. Over the years, Huang Ying has also been a popular star at various concerts around the world, appearing in the Mozart Festival in New York, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Wiener Festwochen, the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Goldener Saal in the Wiener Musikverein, performing vocal masterpieces such as Handel's Messiah, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, Orff's Carmina Burana, Mahler's 2nd, 4th and 8th Symphonies, etc.
A world famous performing artist, Huang Ying has collaborated multiple times with the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, performing with James Levine, James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach, Long Yu, among many other world famous orchestras and conductors. Earlier on as a Sony Classical artist, Huang Ying has recorded a number of internationally distributed albums, most noticeable of which is the Operatic Arias with James Conlon and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Dedicated to using her voice to bridge the East and the West, Huang Ying has been frequently invited to perform on celebration occasions, such as the ground-breaking 1997 Vienna White Christmas concert with Plácido Domingo and Michael Bolton, the Opening Concert of the Shanghai Grand Theatre with José Carreras. Huang Ying's tender and sweet voice, flexible and unassailable technique, authentic musical styles and impassioned stage performances have won accolades worldwide from colleagues, audiences and the media, who hail her as "the nightingale from China".
In recognition of her extraordinary accomplishments in classical music and the operatic field, the Chinese government extended a warm invitation to welcome Huang Ying back to her motherland in 2013 where she is now professor and deputy dean of the vocal department at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. As one of the most sought after operatic and performing artists on stage in China and around the world, Huang Ying continues to preside master classes and is most recently committed to demonstrating the beauty of Chinese art songs with her signature solo concerts, namely "The Nightingale", "The Mirage" and "Time of Love" having won high praise for her effort in promoting Chinese traditional art and inheriting classics.