Yulan Piao - soprano

Yulan Piao-extremely sympathetic onstage and phrasing with care and feeling-showed a lovely lyric voice.” - Turandot, David Shengold - Opera News

Piao brought a beautiful lyrical clarity to her Juliet, a clarity that she easily tinted with moments of crys- talline coloratura that added a perfect edge to vocal details. Piao also had the ability to sur-prise the lis- tener with a command of dynamics when necessary, a vocal depth that belied her youthful physical stature. Dramatically, Piao was simply everything one could ask for in a sympa-thetic, theatrical portrayal of Juliet. -Arts Knoxville

Korean-Chinese Soprano, Yulan Piao, made a successful debut as the principle role of Princess Jia in Dream of the red chamber with San Francisco Opera in the summer of 2022.

This 2023 summer she has made her Opera San Jose debut as the role of Dan in the new opera Zheng alongside legendary Mezzo Soprano Frederica von Stade. This upcoming winter of 2024, she will be making another company and role debut at the Sarasota Opera as the leading role of Sandrina in Haydn’s Delusa l’infedelta.

Recently she also made her debut with Boston Lyric Opera as a Cio-Cio San of Butterfly pre-cess, also has made her another debut as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Lubbock Sym-phony Orchestra, and as a soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.

In competitions she has earned many accolades. Recently She has received 3rd prize in Lois Alba Aria Competition. Previously she has been placed 1st prize in the both Verismo Opera Competi- tion and Vienna Summer Music Festival Competition. Past major awards include 3rd prize in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, The Winner from the Career Bridges Grant Awards, Encouragement grant from Giulio Gari foundation, 3rd Prize from the Connecticut Opera Idol Competition, and 1st prize in the Five Towns music and Art Foundation.

She previously has performed as Rosina from Il barbiere di siviglia, and as Juliette from Roméo et Juliette with Knoxville Opera, as Liu in Turandot with the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, as Musetta in La Bohème with New Rochelle Opera. More previously her credits include La bohème (Mimì), Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta), Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), Luisa Miller (Luisa), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Rigoletto (Gilda).