Qing Cai

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Qing Cai is an opera singer with rich interpretive experience on the opera stage.

Since the age of 15, she began studying European classical singing with Professor Le Xie (Shanghai Conservatory of Music). After her bachelor's degree, she became a permanent ensemble member of Beijing National Theater in 2011.

In 2014, she came to Germany and started her musical career in Europe. In Germany she studied under many musicians, incl. Prof. Christiane Iven, Prof. Monika Riedler, Íride Martínez and KS Sibrand Basa about classical singing and theater performance. In 2020, she completed her master's degree (vocal pedagogy) in soprano with Ms. Doris Döllinger at the University of Catholic Church Music and Music Pedagogy in Regensburg.

During her stay as an ensemble member at Beijing National Theater, she has sung in many operas and more than fifty concerts. In between, she has also worked with many world-renowned opera singers/in, conductors (Placido Domingo、Petra Maria Schnitzer, Violeta Urmana, Eva Johansson, Yalun Zhang, Hui He, Maestro Chung Myung-whun、SEIJI OZAWA、Stephen Barlow, Eugene Kohn, Yoel Levi).

Her representative opera repertoire include: Richard Wagner "Lohengrin, Flying Dutchman", Verdi "Nabucco, La Traviata, Othello, Un ballo in maschera, Bardo", Georges Bizet "Carmen", Jacques Offenbach "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", Tchaikovsky "Eugene Onegin", Symphony: "Mahler Symphony No. 2", "Mahler Symphony No. 8", "Beethoven Symphony No. 9 ", "Requiem" (Verdi), "Carmina burana" (Carl Orff). These four years of theatrical performances and collaboration with international musicians were groundbreaking for her artistic career. So she gave up her long-term ensemble member position in the theater and came to Germany to pursue her musical dreams.

During her stay in Germany, she continued to learn many German/Austrian art songs, Catholic music works and oratorios (from Baroque to Modern), such as "Matthew passion" (J. S. Bach), "The Creation" (F. J. Haydn), "Messiah" (G. F. Handel), " A German Requiem" (J. Brahms), "War Requiem" (B. Britten).

She is currently studying under Prof. Christiane Libor and Prof. Stephan Klemm at the Karlsruhe University of Music in the soloist exam (opera).