Ning Liang

Mezzo Soprano

One of the brightest mezzo-sopranos on the current opera scene, Ning Liang has already been heard in many of the world's leading opera houses.

Ms. Liang started her European career at the Hamburg State Opera and Vienna State Opera where she has sung Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Romeo in I Capuletti ed I Montecchi, Jenny in Mahagonny, and Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos. She has sung Idamante in Idomeneo at Teatro La Scala where she has also performed Suzuki in Madama Butterfly.

Ms. Liang debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, which was broadcast worldwide. Ms. Liang has also performed with Berlin State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semper Opera Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera, as well as opera houses in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Marseilles, Bologna, Helsinki, Tel Aviv, Washington, Philadelphia, and Toronto.

Her repertoire also includes Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Arsace in Semiramide, Malcolm Groem in La Donna del Lago, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri, Charlotte in Werther, Giovanna in Anna Bolena, Adalgisa in Norma, Magareta in La damnation de Faust, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Azucena in Il Trovatore, Preziosila in La Forza del Destino, Dame Quickly in Flastaff, Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Siebel in Faust, Magdalene in Die Meistersinger, Octavia in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Maffio Orsina in Lucrezia Borgia, Erda in Das Rheingold, Leonora di Gusman in La Favorita, and the title roles in Serse and Tancredi.

Ms. Liang is also an active concert and recital singer, and has worked with Giuseppe Sinopoli, Gary Bertini, Riccardo Muti, Sir Colin Davis, Christian Thielemann, Eliahu Inbal, Peter Schreier, Gerd Albrecht, and James Colon.

She has also sung in many important European festivals such as Wiener Festwochen, Bregenz Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Savonlinna Music Festival, and festivals in Dresden, Ludwigsburg, Bad Kissingen, Athens, and Rheingau.

Ms. Liang is a winner of the Metropolitan National Council Competition, the Mirjam Helin Competition, the Musician's Emergency Competition, the Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, the Loren L. Zachery Competition, and the Luciano Pavarotti Competition.

Ms. Liang received a Masters of Music from the Juilliard School in New York, and was a member of the American Opera Center.

She has recorded a series of CD's, including "Giacomo Meyerbeer Mélodies," Giuseppe Verdi "Romanza e Canzonette," and Mahler II and VIII Symphonies, as well as numerous television programs.

Her coming engagements including “Fist Emperor” with Metropolitan Opera house New York, “Das Lied von der Erde” “ Madam Butterfly” with Los Angeles Opera House, "Bonesseters daughter” with San Francisco opera house "Le Grano Macabre" with Opera House La Monnaie etc.

She is also the head of Classical Vocal Department of China Conservatory of Music.