The Godmother Of Western Opera In China

A growing number of Chinese opera singers – Hui He, Ying Huang, Haijing Fu, Hao Jiang Tian, Liping Zhang – have been appearing on the world’s stages. Their mentor and teacher is the 93-year-old Zhou Xiaoyan, who learned music from the Russians in 1930s Shanghai, made a European career, lived through the Cultural Revolution and befriended Zhou Enlai.