Vocal
Chuan Wang
Biography
Chuan Wang is a young operatic tenor currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Poland. He is the first Chinese tenor to take on a leading role at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Wang is represented by the European classical music agency Trucco Management, the SIAA Foundation in Liechtenstein, and Major Performing Arts Group. He graduated from Xinghai Conservatory of Music and the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He studied under the tenor and educator Professor Yan Yang and Associate Professor Hai’ou Ou, a soprano with performance experience in Europe. While in Europe, he studied with soprano Fiorella Prandini, mezzo-soprano Luciana D’intino, and his doctoral advisor Artur Stefanowicz at the Chopin University of Music. He has worked with coaches including Umberto Finazzi, Vincenzo Scarela, James Vaughan, and Michele D’Elia. Wang was the first Chinese student to be awarded a scholarship at the Verdi Conservatory.
Chuan Wang has received awards in numerous international vocal competitions, including First Prize at the 3rd Antonio Bazzini International Vocal Competition, First Prize at the 7th Salvatore Licitra International Vocal Competition, Second Prize at the 5th Portofino International Opera Competition, Fifth Prize and the Domingo Best Tenor Award at the 58th Viñas International Singing Competition in Spain, and First Prize at the 19th Marie Kraja International Vocal Competition in Albania. He was also a finalist in the 20th BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in the United Kingdom.
In April 2017, Wang was accepted into the Young Artist Program at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (2017–2019), becoming the first Chinese opera singer ever admitted since the program’s founding in 1997.
As a leading tenor, Chuan Wang has performed at prominent venues in China and abroad, including Teatro alla Scala (Italy), Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Rossini Opera Festival, Teatro Coccia in Novara, Teatro della Fortuna, Teatro Fraschini in Pavia, Grand Théâtre de Genève (Switzerland), Opéra de Marseille (France), Kraków Opera (Poland), Calgary Opera (Canada), the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China), Bad Wildbad Festival (Germany), and the Macao International Music Festival. His operatic roles include Don Pasquale, L’elisir d’amore, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, L’italiana in Algeri, Roméo et Juliette, Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi, Il viaggio a Reims, Armida, Ermione, Don Giovanni, Turandot, and La finta semplice. He also participated in productions of Das Rheingold, Khovanshchina, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Salome, and I Promessi Sposi. To date, he has performed more than 26 operatic roles. In 2019, he performed alongside the legendary baritone Leo Nucci as the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Teatro alla Scala, becoming the first Asian singer to perform this role at the house. Wang has also appeared as tenor soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Ferrari’s Requiem. In 2021, he performed at the Rossini Opera Festival, the most prestigious stage for Rossini repertoire. That September, he collaborated with ballet star Roberto Bolle in the world premiere of Madina, a new ballet opera at Teatro alla Scala. In 2024, he performed as soloist in the world premiere of Daodejing, a large-scale symphonic choral work by the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra (XSO).
Chuan Wang has frequently been invited to perform in concerts and festivals, such as the 22nd Ruggero Leoncavallo International Music Festival in Switzerland, the 26th Al Bustan Festival in Lebanon, a concert version of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, the Opera Italiana is in the Air festival in collaboration with Teatro di San Carlo, Swedish pianist Robert’s 30th anniversary tour, the 20th anniversary gala concert of Teatro alla Scala’s Young Artist Program, the Paris Music Festival hosted by the Italian Embassy in France, and the “Nessun Dorma” orchestral tour with the Orchestra di Udine (Italy, Slovakia, and Croatia).
He has recorded and released Rossini’s operas Armida and Ermione with the classical music label Naxos.
In the 2024–2025 season, Wang will appear at major opera houses around the world, including Das Rheingold at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China), Don Giovanni at Calgary Opera (Canada), Il barbiere di Siviglia at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Italy), Turandot at the Israeli Opera (Tel Aviv), and La Cenerentola at Teatro alla Scala (Italy).
Wang has collaborated with stage directors including (in no particular order): Woody Allen, Liliana Cavani, Gilbert Deflo, Davide Livermore, Grischa Asagaroff, Mario Martone, Xinyi Chen, Francesco Micheli, Damiano Michieletto, Marco Gandini, Leo Muscato, Stefano Poda, and Vittorio Borrelli.
He has worked with renowned conductors including (in no particular order): Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Chailly, Donato Renzetti, Daniel Oren, Ádám Fischer, Ivan Fischer, Evelino Pidò, Massimo Zanetti, Paolo Carignani, Antonino Fogliani, Jia Lu, Zhong Xu, Guoyong Zhang, Guomin Liao, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Michele Gamba, Pietro Mianiti, Jonathan Brandani, Christopher Franklin, and Bruno Casoni.
Wang has performed with orchestras including (in no particular order): Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala (Italy), Budapest Festival Orchestra (Hungary), Toscanini Symphony Orchestra (Italy), RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Italy), Orchestra of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Italy), Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, China NCPA Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Orchestra of Opéra de Marseille (France), Orchestra of Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain), BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK), Xi’an Symphony Orchestra (China), Kraków Philharmonic (Poland), and the Albanian National Philharmonic.
