Yang Guang (杨光), often referred to in western order as Guang Yang, is a Chinese

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A bel ...

. She won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1997, and the 2001

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Competition.Opera America Newsline - Volume 11 2001 "Winners of the 2001 Operalia Competition are: first prize, mezzo-soprano Guang Yang" She attended the summer conservatory program of the

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in 2001. She studied at The Juilliard School with Cynthia Hoffmann.

References

Further reading *Murray, William (2010)
''Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers''
pp. 144–147. Random House. Living people Chinese mezzo-sopranos Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Chinese women opera singers 21st-century Chinese women opera singers Juilliard School alumni Music Academy of the West alumni {{opera-singer-stub