U.K. educated, Hong Kong born Singaporean soprano Nancy Yuen, has made Cio-cio-san (Madam Butterfly) her signature role winning great international critical acclaim immediately upon graduation from London’s Royal Academy of Music. She made her operatic debut in this demanding Puccini’s title heroine with the Welsh National Opera and has since repeated the role all over the world, notably with the English National Opera, West Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, Opera Northern Ireland, Bangkok Opera, Singapore Lyric Opera, the 1994 New Zealand International Festival of Arts, the 1995 Barbados Opera Festival and the Royal Albert Hall production by David Freeman for Raymond Gubbay Limited in 1998, 2000 and 2003.
As an educator, Nancy has been regularly giving vocal masterclasses in the region, including Sichuan Conservatory of Music, China, National Hualien University of Education, Taiwan, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore, Bangkok Opera Young Artists Programme. As a director of operas, she has staged full productions of Cosi fan tutte, The Merry Widow, Prima la Musica and excerpts from Giulio Cesare, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, La Boheme, Aida, L’elisir d’amore and Rigoletto. She was the adjudicator of the 59th and 65th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, Bangkok Opera International Singing Competition in 2013 and the“Competizione dell’ Opera 2009”in Singapore and Macau Music Festival in 2012 and 2014. She has been a member of the Artistic Committee of Opera Hong Kong since 2013 and an Examiner and Independent Advisor to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2010. In 2015 she became the first Honorary Artistic Director of the Singapore Lyric Opera. Nancy was the Head of Vocal Studies at Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts from 2003 to February 2010. She has been the Head of Vocal Studies of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts since March 2010.