Chinese-born soprano Helen Zhibing Huang brings her “immaculate coloratura chops and nuanced acting” (Boston Globe) to a wide range of repertoire, spanning from Baroque to the present day. In the 2022-2023 season, Helen will make many exciting role and house debuts, including her debuts as Monica in Menotti’s The Medium at Nashville Opera, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at Annapolis Opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni at North Carolina Opera, as well as Handel’s Messiah with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she will reprise the role of Singa Loh in I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams with Resonance Works Pittsburgh and participate in workshop of Derrick Wang’s new opera Fearless with Opera Delaware.
Huang’s other operatic credits include Pamina in The Magic Flute, Baby Doe in The Ballad of Baby Doe, Setsuko in Perla’s An American Dream, Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Amor in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Serpetta in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, Frasquita in Massenet’s Carmen, and Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina. Her concert credits include Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Symphony No. 4, and Earl Kim’s Where Grief Slumbers. In previous seasons, she has sung with Portland Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Kentucky Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Central City Opera, Nashville Opera, Naples Philharmonic, American Symphony, and Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute.
