Chinese soprano Alma Ruoqi Sun, born in Harbin, has been a member of the ensemble of Staatsoper Stuttgart since the 2025/26 season.
In the 2026/27 season, she will appear at Staatsoper Stuttgart as Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Musetta in La Bohème, the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, and Fikriye Hanım in the world premiere of Atatürk. During the 2025/26 season, she appeared as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and Gilda in Rigoletto.
Recent highlights included her house debut at Semperoper Dresden as the Queen of the Night in the 2025/26 season and her return to the house in the same role in the 2026/27 season. She also made her debut at Opéra de Lille as the Queen of the Night and performed as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester under Thomas Zehetmair.
From 2023 to 2025, Sun was a member of the International Opera Studio of Staatsoper Stuttgart. Her roles there included Frasquita in Carmen, the Voice from Heaven in Don Carlos, Papagena and the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, the Flower Maiden in Parsifal, the Sandman and the Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel, and the title role in Lucia Ronchetti’s Pinocchio.
During the 2024/25 season, she appeared as the Queen of the Night in a new production at Theater Aachen and made a successful short-notice debut at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the same role.
Sun completed her Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main in 2023, where she studied with Henriette Meyer-Ravenstein and Michelle Breedt. During her studies, her roles included Leonora in The Long Christmas Dinner, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice, and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel. Guest engagements took her to Burgfestspiele Bad Vilbel and Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Her artistic development was shaped by masterclasses with Christiane Iven, Brigitte Fassbaender, Capucine Chiaudani, Helmut Deutsch, and Franz Hawlata. In 2023, she was invited to participate in the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt. She was a scholarship recipient of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Frankfurt am Main e. V. In summer 2025, she received a special prize at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Bern.