SINGAPORE – Chinese opera singer Huang Ying, 55, shot to fame overnight as Cio Cio San in Madame Butterfly, Frederic Mitterrand’s 1995 film version of Puccini’s opera.She will perform her first solo recital in Singapore at the Esplanade Concert Hall on July 9.
“They are pieces I like and have been performing for more than 20 years, so I’m sure the audience will enjoy them as well,” she says. Since her film debut, she has led major opera productions. She played Pamina in the New York Metropolitan Opera’s 2006 staging of The Magic Flute and starred as the titular Madame White Snake in Opera Boston’s 2010 staging.
Her advice to young musicians: Make sure you have talent, a deep passion for the art and, most importantly, faith. “Know that it’s serious business before you decide to enter this career,” she says. “Ask yourself if you truly love it, which is tough to determine, because it’s very difficult to do this professionally.”
“Asian culture is conveyed more sincerely than before,” she says. “Madame Butterfly started my career and changed my life, but it has now become just a piece of art to me. I don’t perform songs from that opera any longer, if it’s not necessary.”
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