Amanda Li

Soprano Amanda Li made her operatic debut in 2017 as Bao Chai in the Asian premiere of Bright Sheng’s The Dream of the Red Chamber co-produced by San Francisco Opera and Hong Kong Arts Festival. In 2018, Amanda created the role of Ma’am in Eli Marshall’s Mila, a chamber opera commissioned by Asia Society Hong Kong. She will be singing the same role in San Francisco and New York in 2019. Amanda holds a Doctor of Music degree in vocal performance from the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, studying with Prof. Teresa Kubiak. Prior to that, she trained at Royal Northern College of Music and obtained her Master in Music (Performance Studies) from Royal Holloway, University of London. 

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Amanda has performed in many cities around the UK and Europe. In Il Tempo del Postino, a group art show commissioned by the Manchester International Festival, Amanda sang excerpts from Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio San) at the Manchester Opera House. She was later invited to join the re-run of the production at the Art Basel Festival 2009 in Switzerland.

Working with composers is also of interest to Amanda. She premiered Chinese composer Sisi Feng’s Tao Te Ching with Ensemble 10/10, RLPO under the baton of Clark Rundell in Liverpool, UK. (Links to recording and review) She was invited by the CUHK to record To Winter, a piece written by local composer Lan-chee Lam in memory of the late Prof. Michael McClellan, in celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Music Department. (Link to recording)

Major song repertoire includes Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben, Liederkreis Op. 39, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, Debussy’s Ariettes l’oubliées, and Poulenc’s Fiançailles pour rire. Other operatic roles include Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro),  Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Second Lady (Dido and Aeneas) and Fenena (Nabucco), and excerpt performances of Ginevra (Ariodante), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), First Lady (The Magic Flute), and Ilia (Idomeneo). She also took part in productions of La Rondine, La Bohème, The Cunning Little Vixen and The Threepenny Opera. Her oratorio repertoire includes Christmas Oratorio (Bach), Ein deutsches Requiem (Brahms), Requiem (Duruflé), Requiem (Jenkins), Nelson Mass, St. Nicholas Mass (Haydn), Missa Brevis (Kodály), Coronation Mass, Mass in C minor, Exultate Jubilate, Vespers (Mozart), Gloria (Poulenc), Stabat Mater, Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini) and Gloria (Vivaldi).