Praised for the 'brilliance and agility' of voice (The Straits Times) and described as 'a voice of rare beauty' (Bachtrack), London-based Singaporean soprano Victoria Songwei Li is quickly making a name for herself as an interpreter of coloratura roles, singing both in concert and on the opera stage.

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A highlight in the 2025/26 season include premiering the role of Sita in Jonathan Dove's A Bridge Across the Sea - a dramatic cantata for soprano, tenor, chorus and orchestra.

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She is also making her debut with the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra in a semi-staged production of Poulenc's La Voix Humaine in Mérida, Mexico in the 2025/26 season.

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In 2024, Victoria made her Garsington Opera debut as an Alvarez Young Artist singing the role of Amour and covering the role of La Folie in Rameau's Platée, and jumping in for the penultimate performance of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Tytania.

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Victoria made her operatic debut at the age of 17 as Giannetta with New Opera Singapore in L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti). Since then, opera roles have included Rusalka (Dvorak), Elle in La Voix Humaine (Poulenc), Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten), Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc), Poppea in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi), Cupidon in Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach), Pepik, Woodpecker and Cricket in The Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek) and First Singing Apple in The Little Green Swallow (Jonathan Dove).

For the English National Opera, she has sung the roles of Mrs Delgado in It’s A Wonderful Life (Jake Heggie) and A Handmaid in The Handmaid's Tale (Poul Ruders), and cover the roles of Second Niece in Peter Grimes (Britten), Pepik and Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek).

Opera aside, Victoria is a keen song performer, and has performed song recitals in the Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, LSO St. Luke’s, amongst others. She was also a part of the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata during her time at the RAM.

In 2020, Victoria was the winner of the Opera Class in the David Clover Festival of Singing (UK) and the recipient of the Cyril Greaves Bursary.

In 2019, she was awarded First Prize and the Osaka Governor Award at the 20th International Osaka Music Competition in Japan.

Orchestral work include soloist engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel in the 2018 European tour, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She also performed with the Guildhall Cantata Ensemble as a soprano soloist in Handel in Buxtehude Cantatas at the London Handel Festival conducted by James Johnstone.

Victoria has been generously supported by The Leverhulme Trust, the Guildhall Trust, William Hanz Scholarship, Hamish Dyer Young Musicians’ Scholarship, and the Countess of Munster Music Trust Derek Butler Award.​

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