Biography

Praised as a “hochkultivierter Sopran…”, Berlin-based Chinese soprano XÏA Wang opens the 2025/26 season with her house and role debut at Oper Wuppertal as Berta in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. She will then appear as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Theater Erfurt (Slam Concert) and as Henrietta Wong in Harvey Milk Reimagined at the Theater für Niedersachsen. She will also make her debut as Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Jungen Musiktheater Weimar. In addition to her operatic performances, Wang presented a Bellini Concert at Palais Lichtenau in Potsdam and will appear in several international concert engagements.

In the 2024/25 season, XÏA performed both Pamina and Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Poetry Concert) at Theater Erfurt, as well as in opera and operetta concerts with the Thüringer Symphoniker. She also appeared in the Advent Calendar Concert and A Tribute to Bellini concert at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The season concluded with performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana in Prague and the opening concert at the MIK Festival in Albania.

Wang’s previous operatic and concert engagements include Adele (Die Fledermaus), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Norina (Don Pasquale), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas). Her potential repertoire includes Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Le Feu (L’enfant et les sortilèges), Fiakermilli (Arabella), Yniold (Pelléas et Mélisande), Nannetta (Falstaff), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Sophie (Werther), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Despina (Così fan tutte), and Ilia (Idomeneo).

Her concert repertoire includes Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia), Gala Recital (Steinway Hall, Dubai), Handel’s Dixit Dominus (Philadelphia Performing Arts Center / Temple University Orchestra), Donnacha Dennehy’s That the Night Come with the Temple Contemporary Ensemble (Rock Hall, Philadelphia), Sinfoniekonzert (Theater Nordhausen / Loh- Orchester Sondershausen), and Klangzauber unterm Sternenzelt (Thüringer Symphoniker).

XÏA was a participant of Exzellenz Labor Oper 2025, a graduate of Mannes School of Music. And currently she is pursuing a Konzertexamen at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar.