The basement restaurant area of the War Memorial Opera House was all but empty on Monday afternoon, save for a couple of staff members standing at the bar. They weren't drinking but, rather, staring ...

It was toward the end of the first act of the world premiere of "The Bonesetter's Daughter" when mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao, playing the lead, fell briefly onstage during the San Francisco Opera ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Zheng Cao, a popular and spirited mezzo-soprano who performed regularly with the San Francisco Opera, died after a long battle with lung cancer at her home Thursday night. She was 46.

Tuxes, ball gowns and the glitz of a luxurious theater may be the norm for many opera aficionados. But Houston Grand Opera has decided that Mozart's arias should also be heard by those who choose not ...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2008 - The three leads in the acclaimed opera The Bonesetter's Daughter stepped offstage to share their stories at a sold-out Asia Society program. Performers Zheng Cao, ...

Mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao will embody three powerful women when she sings the world premiere of She Told Me This …, a work composed in her honor. But singing Stewart Wallace's new concert piece, ...

The extended San Francisco Opera family is gathering to bid a tearful, but music-filled, farewell Monday afternoon to one of its beloved members, the late mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao, who died in February ...

All singers experience highs and lows in their careers, but San Francisco mezzo soprano Zheng Cao has faced unique extremes. At 44, persistence, determination and what must be called medical miracles ...

It includes treatments that can be personally tailored for an individual's type of cancer. A San Francisco opera singer who was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the age of 42 is already seeing ...