GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Yi-Chen Lin originates from a family of musicians in Taipei, Taiwan. Having moved to Vienna as a child, she was trained and educated there, first as a violinist and a pianist, later as conductor; mentored by conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Alberto Zedda, Bernard Haitink and David Zinman.
From autumn 2020 until spring 2023, Yi-Chen Lin was Kapellmeister and Musical Assistant to the GMD at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Following her successful and highly acclaimed debut with the new production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek, she subsequently appeared in numerous repertoire performances including Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Simon Boccanegra, and Un ballo in maschera.
Recent symphonic engagements include concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, DSO Berlin, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Bochumer Symphoniker, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Konzerthausorchester Brlin, Orchestre…
Yi-Chen Lin originates from a family of musicians in Taipei, Taiwan. Having moved to Vienna as a child, she was trained and educated there, first as a violinist and a pianist, later as conductor; mentored by conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Alberto Zedda, Bernard Haitink and David Zinman.
From autumn 2020 until spring 2023, Yi-Chen Lin was Kapellmeister and Musical Assistant to the GMD at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Following her successful and highly acclaimed debut with the new production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek, she subsequently appeared in numerous repertoire performances including Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Simon Boccanegra, and Un ballo in maschera.
Recent symphonic engagements include concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, DSO Berlin, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Bochumer Symphoniker, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Konzerthausorchester Brlin, Orchestre National de France and Orchestre National de Montpellier. At the end of the season she returned to RSO Wien for a guest performance at the Carinthian Sommer Festival.
On the operatic stage, Yi-Chen Lin made debuts at Lyric Opera Chicago (La Cenerentola) and Den Norske Opera (Dialogues des Carmélites), and returned to the Bregenzer Festspiele with a new and widely praised production of Tancredi.
In 2025/26, Yi-Chen will make her debut at English National Opera with La Cenerentola and at the Wiener Festwochen with Parsifal, while returning to the Royal Danish Theatre (Rigoletto) and to Konzert und Theater St. Gallen for a new production (Così fan tutte). Further engagements take her across Europe throughout the season.
Yi-Chen Lin made her conducting debut with the RSO Wien in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in 2009. Concert invitations have since taken her to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Germany and Austria, where she has worked with orchestras such as Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, hr-Sinfonieorchester, SWR Symphonieorchester, Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTVE Madrid, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona, Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon, Basque National Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife.
She has received regular invitations to festivals such as the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, the Quincena Musical in San Sebastián, and Festival de San Lorenzo in Spain. Her wide-ranging operatic engagements have led her to the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid (Carmen), Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Le nozze di Figaro), Teatro Principal in Palma de Mallorca (L’elisir d’amore, Les contes d’Hoffmann), Ópera de Tenerife (Il viaggio a Reims), Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (L’heure espagnole), Oper Frankfurt (Der Zar lässt sich fotografieren, Die Kluge) and Staatsoper Stuttgart (Don Giovanni).
The musical direction of Yi-chen Lin had the virtue of focusing with excellence the work and interpretation of the singers. A dazzling work by this young woman, who has managed to elevate the interpretation. A brilliant adaptation of a classic opera by Rossini, considered by many to be one of his most demanding works, as well as his latest in Italian; that has not left the public indifferent. Deserved ovation with which we thanked so exceptional interpretation.