Biography
Ying Huang (黄英) is a Chinese operatic soprano. She first came to international attention when sang the title role in Frédéric Mitterrand's 1995 film adaptation of Madama Butterfly and went on to an international career both in opera and on the concert stage.
She was born and raised in Shanghai, and at 18 began five years of study at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. After winning second prize in the 19th Concours International de Chant de Paris, she appeared regularly on Shanghai television and performed in Taiwan and North Korea in various cultural exchange programs. In 1994, director Frédéric Mitterrand and conductor James Conlon saw a video tape of her performance in the Paris Concours de Chant and auditioned her for the lead role in Mitterrand's film of Madama Butterfly. Her success in the film led to Conlon inviting her to perform in several concerts with the Cologne Philharmonic and to her operatic stage debut as Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff at the Cologne Opera in 1996. That same year she appeared with Plácido Domingo and Michael Bolton in the Christmas in Vienna concert which was both televised and released on CD.
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Her U.S. operatic debut came in 1999 when she sang Sophie in Massenet's Werther opposite Denyce Graves and Andrea Bocelli at Michigan Opera Theater. She later returned to the Michigan Opera Theater to appear as Despina in Così fan tutte, as Norina in Don Pasquale and as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. She made her debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera on 29 December 2006 as Pamina in The Magic Flute, the first of its operas to simulcast in movie theaters, returning in 2009 as Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice and as Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore.
黄英，中国著名女高音歌唱家，原籍宁波，生于上海。
]经历:
1992年，毕业于上海音乐学院声乐系。
1992年，法国第十九届巴黎国际声乐大赛中，黄英从来自36个国家100多名选手中脱颖而出，获得第二名。同年被邀请与法国图鲁兹国立交响乐团合作，被欧洲媒体称赞为“中国飞来的夜莺”。
普契尼的歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》在国际上选拔主角蝴蝶夫人的演出者，黄英战胜200余位参选者，最终获选，一举成名。
1998年－1999年，明朝剧作家汤显祖的名剧《牡丹亭》当代世界巡演，黄英首演杜丽娘。
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