Ning Liang makes her LA Opera debut as Emilia in Otello (February/March 2008). One of the pre-eminent mezzo-sopranos on the international opera scene, she has appeared in many of the world's leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semper Opera Dresden, as well as at Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Marseilles, Bologna, Helsinki, Tel Aviv, Washington, Philadelphia, and Toronto. Ms. Liang began her European career at the Hamburg and Vienna State Operas, where she sang 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 the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos. She has sung Idamante in Idomeneo at La Scala, where she also performed Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. Ms. Liang made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, broadcast worldwide and she returned during the 2007/07 season for the world premier of Tan Dun's The First Emperor.

Ms. Liang is well known for her role as Suzuki in the film Madama Butterfly. Recent engagements have included Suzuki in Madama Butterfly in Bilbao and at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Così fan tutte at the Hamburg State Opera, Alice in Wonderland at Amsterdam, La Forza del Destino at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Cenerentola in Norway, Hercules at Athens, Das Lied von der Erde in concert at Rouen, and at the Theatre de Ville in Paris, and in staged productions at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Reims Music Festival. She also performed the role of Suzuki at the Michigan Opera Theater, Baltimore Opera, and at Opera de Monte Carlo, and Toulouse.

An artist of prolific scope, Ms. Liang has performed with great success such repertoire as Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito, Arsace in Semiramide, Malcolm Groehm in La Donna del Lago, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri, Charlotte in Werther, Giovanna in Anna Bolena, Adalgisa in Norma, Marguerite in Le Damnation de Faust, Dame Quickly in Falstaff, Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Siebel in Faust, Stefano in Roméo et Juliette, Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Ottavia in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Maffio Orsina in Lucrezia Borgia, Erda in Das Rhiengold, Leonora in La Favorita, and the title roles of Serse and Tancredi.

Ms. Liang is an active concert and recital singer and soloist, and has collaborated with Giuseppe Sinopoli, Riccardo Muti, Sir Colin Davis, Christian Thielemann, Gary Bertini, Jacques de la Cote, Eliahu Inbal, Peter Schreier, Gerd Albrecht, and James Conlon. She has appeared at such esteemed European music festivals as Wiener Festwochen, Bregenz, Savonlinna, Schleswig-Holstein, Dresden, Ludwigsburg, Bad Kissingen, Athens, and Rheingau.

Ms. Liang is a winner of the Metropolitan National Council Competition, the Luciano Pavarotti Competition, the Mirjam Helin Competition, the Musician's Emergency Competition, the Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, and the Loren L. Zachary Competition. She holds a Masters of Music from Juilliard, and was a member of the American Opera Center.

Ms. Liang's solo recordings include Giacomo Meyerbeer's Melodies, and Giuseppe Verdi's Romanza e Canzonetta, and she has appeared on recording in Mahler's II and VIII Symphonies, as well as in numerous programs produced and televised on three continents.