Alice Chung

mezzo-soprano

Headshot of Alice Chung, mezzo-soprano

“One of America’s most gifted young singers”

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Lauded by Opera News as “one of America’s most gifted young singers,” American mezzo-soprano Alice Chung is recognized for her "operatic tonal glamour" (parterre box) and being “a force of nature with a sound both powerful and appealing” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Ms. Chung’s 2025-2026 includes a return to the role of Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Arizona Opera as well as an exciting role debut of Laura in La Gioconda with Pittsburgh Festival Opera.  

A graduate of The Academy of Vocal Arts, Ms. Chung has also performed with Annapolis Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Central City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Hawai’i Opera Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Delaware, Out of the Box Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Tulsa Opera. A few role credits include Amneris in Aïda, Azucena (cover) in Il trovatore, Dame Quickly (cover) in Falstaff, title role of Carmen, Die Hexe in Hänsel und Gretel, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Ježibaba in Rusalka, Hiroko Kobayashi in An American Dream, La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica, Maddalena in Rigoletto, and Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw.

On the concert stage, she has sung with the Annapolis Symphony, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Dream Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Modesto Symphony Orchestra, Protestra, Syracuse Orchestra, and the Naples Philharmonic. Concert credits include Beethoven's Fantasia and Mass in C Major, Bernstein’s Symphony no.1 Jeremiah, Duruflé’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Mahler’s Symphony no. 2 and Kindertotenlieder, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël, and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.

Ms. Chung is an honored recipient of numerous grants and winner of various competitions, including the 2024 first place winner of the Loren L. Zachary Society Competition, 2022 Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition, the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation, First Prize and Audience Favorite awards at the Young Patronesses of the Opera, First Place in the Cooper-Bing Competition, District and Regional Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and the 2021 William Matheus Sullivan Foundation Audition Awards.

A lover of collaboration and chamber music, Ms. Chung has been presented by LiederAlive!, Merola Opera Program, Shoshana Foundation, San Francisco Opera’s Schwabacher Recital Series, to name a few. As the artistic director and co-founder of the arts and advocacy nonprofit Wear Yellow Proudly, Ms. Chung focuses on producing and curating concerts to raise awareness of Asian and AAPI narratives and culture.