Francis

Hong Kong Tenor Francis Ng graduated cum Laude from the master programme at Codarts Rotterdam (Classical Singing), aka Rotterdams Conservatorium. An awardee of Hartman Award, he graduated with exceptional performance. Francis obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Music with First-class Honour/ cum laude at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018, where numerous performance and academic scholarships were awarded to him. He is now a member of the studio of the Haarlem opera group The Fat Lady.

Upon his arrival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Francis has often been invited to perform as a concert soloist. A versatile singer, he embraces a repertoire encompassing music in style of Baroque to Post-Romanticism, including J.S. Bach’s Matthäus-Passion and Johannes-Passion, masses by Mozart and Schubert, Bruckner’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Janáčeks Otčenáš, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and so on.

Francis is also gradually establishing himself as a young opera singer. In summer 2021 he made his operatic debut as Le Remendado in Opera Spanga’s production of Bizet’s Carmen. In 2022, he played as Nemorino from Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore (Opera Viva Festival, Woerden) and Nadir from Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Opera Festa, Leiden). At the Festival Via Musica 2023 he played as Midas in the staged version of J.S. Bach’s Bachs “Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan” by Apollo Ensemble. In the season 23/24, Francis portrays the role of Nemorino (Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore) with Operakoor Belcanto in Velsen (NL), Macduff (Verdi’s Macbeth) with Opera Festa in Leiden (NL) and Lensky (Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin) with Opera op het Hogeland in Groningen (NL).

He is a recent of award recipient of International Singing Competition of the Chamber Opera Rheinsberg Castle (Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg) 2023 and performed the role of Don Luigino in the opera “La Molinara” by Paisiello.