Chuanyuan joins the Handel Choir of Baltimore as the soloist of Bernstein's Chichester Psalm and other TBA work.

The Virginia Consort’s 36th season continues with a Mid-Season Masterworks concert. Under the direction of Deke Polifka, the Consort, Festival Chorus, and Youth Chorale offer a special program of American choral music, honoring the 250th anniversary of the United States (America250). The central works are Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and choruses from Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land, performed by over 100 singers, full orchestra, and soloists.

Chuanyuan Liu performs the countertenor soloist in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, along with two art songs by Copland and Laitman.

Johann Strauss's effervescent operetta enters a realm of luck, luxury, and laughter as Cedar Rapids Opera’s mainstage January 2026 production. Die Fledermaus plunges the audience into a world of chance and intrigue, where fortunes—and secrets—are gambled away. Prince Orlofsky’s soirée becomes a grand night filled with masked players, shimmering gowns, and a live orchestra bringing the atmosphere to life.

Chuanyuan makes his role and house debut as Prince Orlofsky.

Eight outstanding young opera singers from across the U.S. will take the stage, competing for more than $33,000 in cash scholarships, judged by distinguished opera professionals.

Admission is free, and your applause supports the future of vocal excellence and the arts. Doors will open at 12 noon and seating is limited.

The Butler Opera International Competition seeks the world’s finest emerging vocal artists through an annual competition at the Butler School of Music of The University of Texas at Austin.

White Raven, Black Dove is an original work of science fiction using live performance, computer generated images and animation to explore two issues consuming America today – race and climate change.

Composer: Jacinth Greywoode | Librettist: Cerise Lim Jacobs

Chuanyuan sings the title role of Raven.

The neo-baroque comic chamber opera Sitcom, with music by Luke Styles and libretto by Alan McKendrick, was developed in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia and will receive a ten-day workshop with harpsichord accompaniment at Chautauqua.

Chuanyuan sings the role of Max.

Giacomo Puccini’s lush and ravishing score returns to Chautauqua for the first time since 2003. Keturah Stickann directs. Steven Osgood conducts.

Chuanyuan sings the role of Parpignol.

AMOC presents the New York premiere of Rome is Falling, conceived and composed by AMOC bassist Doug Balliett.

Chuanyuan sings various roles in this zany lesson on the absurdity of what can happen when influential people lose power.

Workshop Presentation with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Chautauqua Opera Conservatory.

The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek to create an operatic adaptation of George Saunders’ wildly imaginative, Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

Chuanyuan Liu sings the role of Elise Traynor.

Famous for tunes like “Vanilla Ice Cream,” “She Loves Me” and “It’s Been Grand Knowing You,” She Loves Me follows two employees in a Budapest parfumerie who are sworn enemies during the day—but unsuspecting lonely hearts penpals at night. With a dynamic cast of returning artists Jarrett Porter (festival artist, 2015) as Georg Nowack, Shavon Lloyd (Sky Masterson in 2024’s Guys and Dolls) as Steven Kodaly, this production also introduces Christine Taylor Price as Amalia Balash and celebrated tenor Peter Kazaras as Mr. Maraczek to the Opera Saratoga audience.

Chuanyuan performs as customer in all dates.

Offenbach, Meilhac & Halévy’s sparkling, witty, and electricLa Vie Parisienne takes us to the heart of the demi-monde in 1860s Paris where two bachelors play tour guide to a Swedish Baron and Baroness. They showcase the Paris of their imagination, complete with visits to dives that they claim are fancy palaces and meetings with friends who are disguised as aristocrats. La Vie Parisienne is social critique at its most hilarious. You will leave the theater humming catchy patter songs and raucous party numbers.

La Vie Parisienne features Festival Artists Sung-yeun Kim (Gabrielle), Fantine Douilly (Pauline), Chase Sanders (Baroness), Sadie Spivey (Clara), Tivoli Treloar (Metella), Kate Morton (Mme. de Folle-Verdure), Brennan Martinez (Léonie), Chuanyuan Liu (Mme. de Quimper-Karadec), Randy Ho (Gardefeu), Wagner Mauricio Pastor (Gontran/Prosper), Geoffrey Schmelzer (Le Baron), Michael Segura (Urbain), Jack O’Leary (Joseph), as well as guest artists Michael J. Hawk (Bobinet) and César Andrés Parreño (Frick/Bresélien). Gloria Yin will serve as assistant conductor, and Zoe Lesser will be the assistant director. The book for La Vie Parisienne will be translated and updated by Tim Drucker (director of Trixie and Katya Live!)

Memoirs of a Gaysian explores the unique stories and perspectives of Queer-Asian artists. Too often, queerness and Asian identity are compartmentalized—same-sex marriage remains inaccessible in many Asian countries, and traditional family values have long silenced LGBTQ+ voices within the community. Highlighting works by queer and Asian composers and librettists, singers Spencer Britten and Chuanyuan Liu and pianist Jeremy Chan juxtapose songs and arias from the standard repertoire with music by living composers. The beautiful union of queer and Asian identities in composer Dylan Trấn’s song cycle Ba, a setting of poetry by Ocean Vuong, intermingles with pieces by Brian C. Armbrust, Huang Ruo, Alice Ping Yee Ho, and more.

Wear Yellow Proudly brings Memoirs of a Gaysian to the Velvet Whip. Memoirs of a Gaysian explores the unique stories and perspectives of Queer-Asian experiences. Too often, queerness and Asian identity are compartmentalized—same-sex marriage remains inaccessible in many Asian countries, and traditional family values have long silenced LGBTQ+ voices within the community. Highlighting works by Queer and Asian composers and librettists, this program weaves together songs and arias from the classical repertoire alongside music by living composers. Through a candid portrayal of joy, sorrow, anger, and pride, we unite these two worlds, offering an authentic reflection of what it means to exist at their intersection.

Widespread closures threaten the very existence of live theater in America. A traditional career as an opera singer seems less and less viable.

And yet: In spite of a system stacked against them, young singers continue to follow their calling, risking everything to gain entry into fiercely competitive apprenticeship programs.

In VHO’s searing, intimate new documentary film, 5 young opera singers across America share a year of their lives with unprecedented access. What is driving their ambition? Who will “make it”? And what does success even mean to the next generation?

Future live screening and On-Demand to be announced.

Join Opera Saratoga in the Ferndell Pavilion with a site-specific installation version of a new opera, In a Grove, composed by Chris Cerrone with libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann. This operatic adaptation of Akutagawa’s classic short story “In a Grove” which inspired the plot of Kurosawa’s renowned film Rashomon, offers a searing investigation into the impossibility and elusiveness of truth. The New York Times deemed the opera: “A vividly immersive thriller about the nature of truth and memory. Not a word or note is without dramaturgical purpose.”

In a Grove will feature Chase Sanders (Leona), Chuanyuan Liu (Priest/Medium), Sadie Spivey (Leona’s Mother), Shavon Lloyd (Luther), Randy Ho (Ambrose), Wagner Mauricio Pastor (Policeman), and Geoffrey Schmelzer (Woodcutter). This site specific installation will feature sound design by Sam Torres and will be conducted by Luke Poeppel.

With four performances at the Ferndell Pavilion in Saratoga Spa State Park:

May 28 at 5:00 pm, 7:00 pm, and May 29 at 5:00 pm, 7:00 pm

Rain date: May 31 at 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm

Visionary opera director and Hudson resident R.B. Schlather reunites with early music band Ruckus in April 2025 for six performances of Handel’s baroque blockbuster GIULIO CESARE. Repeating the successful alchemy of RODELINDA (2023), Schlather brings together area residents, rising young stars, and some of the finest baroque interpreters today to share his passion for Handel in the intimacy of New York State’s oldest surviving theater.

Chuanyuan sings the role of Tolomeo.

A group of contemporary artists comes to a retreat in nature to make their art. They feel the emotional weather inside of them more than they feel the weather outside of them. But extreme weather impacts them without warning and changes their lives forever. The Seasons is a meditation on the relationship between our contemporary moment and Vivaldi’s iconic music, which appreciated the harmonious seasons. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, paired with additional arias and ensembles by the composer, becomes an occasion for seeing our own disordered seasons more clearly.

Chuanyuan covers the role of Painter in this production conceived and led by Anthony Roth Costanzo.

Chuanyuan joins a stellar cast in the NY premiere of In a Grove, by Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann. Directed by Mary Birmbaum.