Baian ChenCountertenor

Media

Watch & Listen

Selected opera and concert performances. Additional professionally recorded material will be added during the 2026–27 season.

Video

Performance recordings

Dawn, still darkness

Jonathan Dove, Flight, Act III

The Refugee · NEC Black Box Theatre

November 2025

Live performance recording

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows

Benjamin Britten, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Oberon · NEC Undergraduate Opera Studio

November 2024

Live performance recording

An Sylvia

Franz Schubert, D. 891

Art song · recital

Further recordings are available on YouTube.

Photography

Productions

Flight

Jonathan Dove · The Refugee

NEC Opera Department · November 2025

Baian Chen as the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight

The Refugee with the Flight Attendant in Jonathan Dove's Flight

The Refugee and the Flight Attendant on stage in Flight

The Refugee alone under a spotlight in Flight

The Refugee in the airport terminal set of Flight

Dido and Aeneas

Henry Purcell · Spirit

NEC Undergraduate Opera Studio · March 2025

Photography: Yechan Min

Baian Chen as the Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

The Spirit with cloak outstretched in Dido and Aeneas

The Spirit on stage in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

Giulio Cesare in Egitto

George Frideric Handel · Tolomeo

Vienna Summer Music Festival · July 2025

Baian Chen as Tolomeo in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Tolomeo singing in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Tolomeo confronting Cornelia in Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Scene from Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto in Vienna

Serse

George Frideric Handel · Arsamene

NEC Undergraduate Opera Studio · April 2026

Baian Chen as Arsamene in Handel's Serse

Portraits

Studio · Boston

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Studio portrait of countertenor Baian Chen

Community Engagement

Greater Boston · 2025–2026

Performing for an audience at UMass Dartmouth

Performing at the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge

Performing at Sudbury Senior Center

Production photographs are used with the permission of the photographers and producing organisations.