Zheng Cao, the Glossary
Zheng Cao (July 9, 1966February 21, 2013) was a Chinese-born, American operatic mezzo-soprano known for her signature role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly.[1]
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71 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera), American University, Amy Tan, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), Committee of 100 (United States), Conducting, Così fan tutte, Cruise ship, Curtis Institute of Music, Das Lied von der Erde, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler), Detroit Opera, Don Giovanni, Faust (opera), Frederica von Stade, Fremont, California, Good Morning America, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Houston Chronicle, Houston Grand Opera, Idomeneo, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Jake Heggie, Joshua Kosman, Káťa Kabanová, Kentucky Opera, La damnation de Faust, László Seregi, Los Angeles Opera, Lung cancer, Madama Butterfly, Master's degree, Messiah (Handel), Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Mezzo-soprano, Nagano Winter Olympics '98, Nathaniel Stookey, Opera buffa, Opera Pacific, Passing By – Songs by Jake Heggie, Philadelphia, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera, Radiosurgery, Requiem (Mozart), San Diego Opera, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Opera, ... Expand index (21 more) »
- 20th-century Chinese women opera singers
- 21st-century Chinese women opera singers
- Chinese mezzo-sopranos
- People's Republic of China emigrants to the United States
A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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American University
American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. American University was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who sought to create an institution that would promote public service, internationalism, and pragmatic idealism.
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Amy Tan
Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston.
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Choral Fantasy (Beethoven)
The Fantasy for piano, vocal soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80, usually called the Choral Fantasy, was composed in 1808 by then 38-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Committee of 100 (United States)
The Committee of 100 is a 501(c)(3) organization of Chinese Americans in business, government, academia and the arts whose stated aim is "to encourage constructive relations between the peoples of the United States and Greater China." It was founded in 1990 by I. M. Pei.
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
Così fan tutte
(Women are like that, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Cruise ship
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.
Curtis Institute of Music
The Curtis Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Philadelphia.
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Das Lied von der Erde
Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the Earth) is an orchestral song cycle for two voices and orchestra written by Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909.
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) is a series of songs with music by Gustav Mahler, set either for voice and piano, or for voice and orchestra, based on texts of German folk poems chosen from a collection of the same name assembled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano and published by them, in heavily redacted form, between 1805 and 1808.
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Detroit Opera
Detroit Opera is the principal opera company in Michigan, US.
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Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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Faust (opera)
Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One.
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Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade (born 1 June 1945) is a semi-retired American classical singer. Zheng Cao and Frederica von Stade are American operatic mezzo-sopranos.
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Fremont, California
Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.
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Good Morning America
Good Morning America (often abbreviated as GMA) is an American morning television program that is broadcast on ABC.
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
Grand Théâtre de Genève is an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Houston Grand Opera
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is an American opera company located in Houston, Texas.
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Idomeneo
(Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (SV 325, The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland) is an opera consisting of a prologue and five acts (later revised to three), set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro.
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Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie (born March 31, 1961)Slonimsky, Nicholas; Kuhn, Laura; ed.
Joshua Kosman
Joshua Kosman (born October 27, 1959) is an American music critic who specializes in classical music.
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Káťa Kabanová
Káťa Kabanová (also known in various spellings including Katia, Katja, Katya, and Kabanowa) is an opera in three acts, with music by Leoš Janáček to a libretto by the composer based on The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, translated by.
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Kentucky Opera
The Kentucky Opera is an American opera company based in Louisville, Kentucky.
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La damnation de Faust
La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op.
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László Seregi
László Seregi (1929 – 11 May 2012) was a Hungarian dancer and choreographer who served as the primary choreographer of the National Opera of Budapest.
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Los Angeles Opera
The Los Angeles Opera is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California.
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Lung cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung.
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
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Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
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Messiah (Handel)
Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel.
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Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition (formerly the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions) is an annual singing competition sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera.
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Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.
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Nagano Winter Olympics '98
Nagano Winter Olympics '98, known in Japan as, is a multi-event sports game from Konami.
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Nathaniel Stookey
Nathaniel Stookey (born 1970, San Francisco, California) is an American composer and musician.
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Opera buffa
Opera buffa ("comic opera";: opere buffe) is a genre of opera.
Opera Pacific
Opera Pacific was an opera company located in the Orange County, California, United States city of Santa Ana.
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Passing By – Songs by Jake Heggie
Passing By is a 73-minute studio album of contemporary art songs and duets composed by Jake Heggie, performed by Isabel Bayrakdarian, Zheng Cao, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Paul Groves, Keith Phares and Frederica von Stade with Dawn Harms (violin), CarlaMaria Rodrigues (viola), Emil Miland (cello) and Heggie himself at the piano.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (PBO) is an American orchestra based in San Francisco.
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Pittsburgh Opera
Pittsburgh Opera is an American opera company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Radiosurgery
Radiosurgery is surgery using radiation, that is, the destruction of precisely selected areas of tissue using ionizing radiation rather than excision with a blade.
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Requiem (Mozart)
The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).
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San Diego Opera
The San Diego Opera Association (SDO) is a professional opera company located in the city of San Diego, California.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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San Francisco Opera
The San Francisco Opera (SFO) is an American opera company founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881–1953) based in San Francisco, California.
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San Francisco Opera Center
The San Francisco Opera Center (SFOC) is the San Francisco Opera's professional training center for opera singers.
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Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (Saint Monica; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast.
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Seiji Ozawa
was a Japanese conductor known internationally for his work as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), where he served from 1973 for 29 years.
Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival
The, formerly known as the, is an annual classical music festival held in August and September in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan, founded in 1992 by conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
The Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCMusic) is a municipal public college in Shanghai, China.
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Susan Quittmeyer
Susan Louise Quittmeyer (born 1953) is an American mezzo-soprano. Zheng Cao and Susan Quittmeyer are 21st-century American women opera singers and American operatic mezzo-sopranos.
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Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
The Symphony No.
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Tanglewood Music Center
The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops.
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The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini.
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The Bonesetter's Daughter (opera)
The Bonesetter's Daughter is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Stewart Wallace to a libretto by Amy Tan based on her novel of the same name.
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The Faces of Love: The Songs of Jake Heggie
The Faces of Love is a 78-minute studio album of contemporary classical songs composed by Jake Heggie, performed by Brian Asawa, Zheng Cao, Kristin Clayton, Renée Fleming, Nicolle Foland, Jennifer Larmore, Sylvia McNair, Frederica von Stade and Carol Vaness, with piano accompaniment by Heggie and with two contributions by cellist Emil Miland.
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The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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The Mercury News
The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann (French) is an by Jacques Offenbach.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Troy Donahue
Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Johnny Hunter in the film A Summer Place.
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University of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California.
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Vancouver Opera
Vancouver Opera is the second largest performing arts organization in British Columbia and the largest opera company in western Canada.
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Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera (WNO) is an American opera company in Washington, D.C. Formerly the Opera Society of Washington and the Washington Opera, the company received Congressional designation as the National Opera Company in 2000.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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See also
20th-century Chinese women opera singers
- Dilber Yunus
- Jiang Ying (musician)
- Ma Yutao
- Mayra Muhammad-kyzy
- Peng Liyuan
- Wang Kun (singer)
- Yang Guang (mezzo-soprano)
- Ying Huang (soprano)
- Zhang Liping
- Zheng Cao
21st-century Chinese women opera singers
- Dilber Yunus
- Guanqun Yu
- He Hui
- Hongni Wu
- Jia Ruhan
- Lu Ye
- Ma Yutao
- Mayra Muhammad-kyzy
- Wang Fang (singer)
- Yang Guang (mezzo-soprano)
- Ying Fang
- Ying Huang (soprano)
- Zhang Liping
- Zheng Cao
- Zhu Huiling
Chinese mezzo-sopranos
People's Republic of China emigrants to the United States
- Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals
- Baiyu (singer)
- Beiwen Zhang
- Chi-Chao Chan
- Chloé Zhao
- Chuanyi Wang
- Cuilin Zhang
- Da Chen
- Dacheng Ren
- Daisy Yen Wu
- Glen Cao
- Hang Lu
- Hongtao Yu
- Hui Wu
- Hung Liu
- Huping Ling
- Jennifer Wen Ma
- Jennifer Zeng
- Jenny Q. Chai
- Jet Li
- Jing Jing Luo
- John Wey Ling
- Jun S. Liu
- Kahar Barat
- Kefeng Liu
- Kenneth Lin (entrepreneur)
- Li Zhisui
- Ling Wancheng
- Liu Gang
- Lulu Wang (filmmaker)
- Mian Chin
- Moses H. W. Chan
- Ning Li (physicist)
- Peter Chang (chef)
- Rae Yang
- Shuping Wang
- Sister Ping
- Steven Gwon Sheng Louie
- U.S. immigration policy toward the People's Republic of China
- Wang Xizhe
- Wei Yang (biologist)
- Xihong Lin
- Xinru Liu
- Xuan Juliana Wang
- Yin Mei
- Ying E. Zhang
- Yinling Hu
- Zheng Cao
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Cao
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