Guanqun Yu

Soprano Guanqun Yu is a regular guest at international opera houses in Europe and America and has enjoyed great success as a genuine ‘Voce verdiana’. Her engagements in the 2025/26 season include her return to the Metropolitan Opera New York as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, her role debut as Madama Butterfly at Opera Australia in Sydney and Liu in a new production of Turandot (Breth-Guggeis) at Oper Frankfurt. Guanqun Yu’s repertoire includes the great Mozart roles such as Vitellia, Elettra, Contessa, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira as well as the Italian repertoire. She has sung Aida at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Frankfurt Opera, Lucrezia (I due Foscari) at the Salzburg Festival, Leonora (Il Trovatore) at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Los Angeles Opera, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and in a new production at the Hamburg State Opera, Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) in Valencia, Hamburg and Frankfurt, Medora (Il Corsaro) at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Desdemona (Otello) at the Palau de les Arts Valencia. She made her highly successful debut as Ernani-Elvira at the Bregenz Festival and sang Mimì (La Bohème) in a new production at the Zurich Opera House and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Liù (Turandot) at the Metropolitan Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Hamburg State Opera, in Zurich, Cologne and at the Bregenz Festival.