Born in Hong Kong, Nancy Yuen trained at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won many major awards, including a scholarship to study Lieder in Germany for a year, and sang Cleopatra Giulio Cesare under the direction of Trevor Pinnock.
She made her operatic début as Cio-Cio-San Madama Butterfly with Welsh National Opera and this has become her signature rôle. She made a tremendous impact with her performance in Raymond Gubbay’s production at the Royal Albert Hall and has also triumphed with English National Opera, Los Angeles Music Centre Opera, Mid-Wales Opera, Opera Northern Ireland, Opera Queensland, Singapore Lyric Opera, West Australian Opera and at the Barbados Festival and the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.

Other operatic rôles have included Micaëla Carmen for Hong Kong Performing Arts, Mimì La bohème and Gilda Rigoletto on tour in the Middle and Far East, Tytania A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nedda Pagliacci, Rosalinde Die Fledermaus and Violetta La traviata for Singapore Lyric Opera, Lisa The Queen of Spades for Kentish Opera, Siok Imm Bunga Mawar (world première) for the Festival of the Asian Performing Arts in Singapore, Aida at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Mae Naak in Somtow Sucharitkul’s homonymous opera work and Liu in Bangkok’s own Turandot (Puccini) with the new finale written by Somtow Sucharitkul.

Nancy Yuen is also experienced as a concert singer, her repertoire including the Beethoven Choral Symphony, the Brahms and Verdi Requiems, Messiah, The Creation, the Nelson Mass, Elijah, Carmina Burana and the Poulenc Gloria. She has recorded for the BBC, Radio Television Hong Kong and Radio fM, New Zealand.

Nancy Yuen recently sang further performances as Cio-Cio-San Madam Butterfly in Raymond Gubbay’s production at the Royal Albert Hall and her current engagements include further performances of Butterfly and a Christmas Gala in London for Raymond Gubbay.  She just released Per l’Amore, her first album, recorded with Somtow Sucharitkul.