Antonio Yang

Vita

He has appeared as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and in operas by Humperdinck, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini in his native city. He has sung the part of Dandini in Rossini’s LA CENERENTOLA in Munich and Ingolstadt and Yevgeny Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s eponymous opera at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.

Antonio Yang has developed an extensive repertoire that concentrates on the Italian fach. He has sung roles in Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI and Count Almaviva in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO as well as parts in operas by Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini.

He has won prizes at competitions, including 3rd prize at the International Renata Tebaldi Singing Competition in Italy, 1st prize and the Audience Prize at the 2006 ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and 1st prize at the 2007 Emmerich Smola Prize for New Talent organised by SWR.

Antonio Yang first joined the ensemble of Theater Lübeck (2008-2013), moving from there to the ensemble of the Nürnberg Staatstheater (2013-2018), where he could be seen and heard in roles such as Rigoletto (RIGOLETTO), Carlo Gérard (ANDREA CHÉNIER), Alberich (DAS RHEINGOLD & GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG), Wotan (DAS RHEINGOLD and DIE WALKÜRE) and Wanderer (SIEGFRIED), Mandryka (ARABELLA), Fritz/Frank (DIE TOTE STADT), Macbeth (MACBETH), Orest (ELEKTRA), Herr von Faninal (DER ROSENKAVALIER), Jochanaan (SALOME), Renato (UN BALLO IN MASCHERA), Méphistophélès (LA DAMNATION DE FAUST), Giorgio Germont (LA TRAVIATA) and Zurga (THE PEARL FISHERS). With effect from the 2018/2019 season, Antonio Yang performs as a freelance artist.

Guest engagements took and are taking the artist as Rigoletto (RIGOLETTO), the Dutchman (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), Nabucco (NABUCCO) and Giorgio Germont (LA TRAVIATA) to the Dresden Semperoper, as Klingsor (PARSIFAL), Alberich (GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG) and Borromeo (PALESTRINA) to the Hamburg Staatsoper, as Wanderer (SIEGFRIED) to the Frankfurt Opera, as Donner in a concertante performance of RHEINGOLD to the Berlin RSO under the direction of Marek Janowski, as Alberich (DAS RHEINGOLD) to the Staatstheater Cottbus, as Klingsor (PARSIFAL) to the Korea National Opera and as Wotan (DAS RHEINGOLD) to the Arts Center in Seoul, as Peter Besenbinder (HANSEL AND GRETEL) to Theater Kiel, as Macbeth (MACBETH), Marcello (LA BOHÈME), the Dutchman (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN) and Nabucco (NABUCCO) to the Schloss Heidenheim Opera Festival and for Zemlinsky’s “Lyrische Symphonie” to the Orchestra Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma.

2020-09-01

Repertoire

Bellini	I PURITANI	Riccardo / Oberts Richard Forth
Bizet	CARMEN	Escamillo
Donizetti	L’ELISIR D’AMORE	Belcore
	LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR	Lord Enrico Ashton
Giordano	ANDRÉ CHENIER	Charles Gerard
Humperdinck	HÄNSEL UND GRETEL	Vater
Janáček	AUS EINEM TOTENHAUS	Šiškov
Leoncavallo	PAGLIACCI	Tonio
Mozart	COSÌ FAN TUTTE	Guglielmo
	DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE	Sprecher
	DON GIOVANNI	Don Giovanni
	LE NOZZE DI FIGARO	Graf Almaviva
Pfitzner	PALESTRINA	Carlo Borromeo
Puccini	GIANNI SCHICCHI	Gianni Schicchi
	IL TABARRO	Michele
	MADAMA BUTTERFLY	Sharpless
	TOSCA	Scarpia
Rossini	GUGLIELMO TELL	Guglielmo Tell
	IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA	Figaro
	LA CENERENTOLA	Dandini
Strauss	ARABELLA	Mandryka
	SALOME	Jochanaan
Tschaikowski	EUGEN ONEGIN	Eugen Onegin
Verdi	ATTILA	Ezio
	DON CARLOS	Posa
	FALSTAFF	Ford, Sir John Falstaff
	IL TROVATORE	Graf von Luna
	LA TRAVIATA	Germont
	MACBETH	Macbeth
	NABUCCO	Nabucco
	OTELLO	Jago
	RIGOLETTO	Rigoletto, Marullo
	UN BALLO IN MASCHERA	Renato
Wagner	DAS RHEINGOLD	Alberich
	DIE WALKÜRE	Wotan
	SIEGFRIED	Wanderer, Alberich
	GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG	Alberich
	PARSIFAL	Klingsor