Ann Wroe
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34 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In 2019, China's government bestowed the title of People's Artist on Guo Lanying.
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Guo Lanying's favorite song and signature song was My Motherland.
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She was an opera singer, but also she was a national treasure.
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At 15, she fell in love with a particular opera called The White-Haired Girl, which was the story of a peasant woman who was abused by a rapacious landlord who wanted to make her his concubine.
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And rather than submit, she ran away and hid in a cave.
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And there her skin got whiter until she looked like a ghost.
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And then she was rescued and restored to life by the troops of the Chinese Communist Party.
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When she sang the songs from The White Haired Girl, she felt she was really taking part in the revolution.
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China, even under this new society, was still a place where women were on the very bottom rung.
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And she loved the role of the heroine in this opera because she could sing about the general repression of women.
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She sang most of the songs in this opera with a condemnation board strapped to her back and kneeling down, looking incredibly uncomfortable but singing wonderfully.
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And her final aria in the opera
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was called Pathetic and Disgraceful which was her attack on all her accusers and abusers and singing it for all women.
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But her way into this world of opera had been enormously hard.
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Her whole life had been a struggle.
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When she was born, her mother didn't have enough milk to feed her.
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In fact, in the house, her parents just had a handful of millet in an iron bowl.
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Her mother took her and left her in the woods to die.
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Her aunt, however, rescued her.
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Then at the age of four, the whole family was starving again and her parents again didn't know what to do with her.
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