Mezzo-soprano Guang Yang was the winner of the 1997 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. In 2001 she won first place at Operalia in Moscow.

After a three-year stay at the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, Yang started her operatic career worldwide. She sung Amneris in Aida under maestro Zubin Mehta with the National Centre for The Performing Arts in Beijing in 2014, and performed the same role at Bregenz Festival, Austria in 2009, and at the 2010 Summer Art Festival.

Yang has worked on major mezzo roles with many international opera houses, such as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Eboli in Don Carlos, Azucena in Il trovatore and Adalgisa in Norma. She has also performed as a soloist in numerous symphonic works.