Martin Ng
Martin Ng was born in Singapore and graduated in Voice at the Conservatorio dall'Abaco di Verona, Italy. He is the winner of the Singapore Lyric Opera International Singer of the Year Award, the 6th Rassegna Concertistica ‘Città di Montichiari' 2011 and finalist in the 1st Jole de Maria International Singing Competition.
Martin has sung in numerous opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe and Southeast Asia and has performed a diverse range of roles in operas by Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, Mozart, Menotti, Purcell, Rossini and Schoenberg, among others. Martin sang the title role in Der Kaiser von Atlantis at Teatro Rosetum, Milan, Silvio in I Pagliacci with the Teatro Sociale di Trento and Don Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bologna. He also sang the role of Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte with Taiwan’s Creation Opera at the National Theatre of Taiwan; Other roles include Ping in Turandot, First Soldier in Salome, Bauer in Gurrelieder, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore with the Singapore Lyric Opera and Der Holländer in Der Fliegende Holländer with the Richard Wagner Association of Singapore.
Recent Performances
In 2018-2019 Martin performed Papageno in The Magic Flute (Cambodia), Amonasro in Aida (SLO, Singapore), Klingsor in Parsifal (NSO, Taiwan), Scarpia in Tosca (NSO, Taiwan) and Ping in Turandot at the Weiwuying Opera house (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Germont in La Traviata with Kuala Lumpur City Opera, and Escamillio in Carmen (SLO, Singapore).
Season 2020/2021 season sees Martin as the Baritone soloist for Britten's War Requiem with English National Opera at the Weiwuying Opera House, Ping in Weiwuying's revival of Turandot and Giorgio Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata at the National Weiwuying Opera House, Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with New Opera Singapore and Bartolo in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville by Danish Royal Theatre at the National Taichung Theatre.
Martin’s concert performances include bass soloist for Bach's Magnificat and Saint John's Passion, Buxtenhude's Membri Jesu Nostri, Mozart's Coronation Mass with the Orchestra of the Virtuosi Italiani, Mozart and Faure's Requiem and the bass soloist in Mozart’s C minor Mass Easter Concert at the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica di Verona.
In his experience as a performer and working with conductors and directors from various opera houses regionally and internationally, he has started to be involved in artistic direction in recent years. In 2019, he curated Singapore’s premiere staging of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale to critical acclaim, wherein the production was nominated by Straits Times as one of 2019’s best events of classical music