Xiaoxu Aleta Shang is a lyric-coloratura soprano. She completed a Bachelor of Music Studies, a Graduate Diploma of Music (performance), and a Master of Music (opera performance) with scholarships at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

The roles she performed in opera include La princesse in L’enfant et Les Sortileges by Ravel; Hannchen in Die Opernprobe by Lortzing; La Fée in Cendrillon by Massenet; Prince Charming in Cendrillon by Viardot; Emilie in Emilie by Kaija Sarriaho; Soprano solo (understudy) in Nelson Mass by Haydn; Second women in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell.

And she also performed in recitals (art songs and opera arias), opera gala, and chorus in opera (Requiem by Mozart, L’Anima del Filosofo by Haydn, The Dream of Gerontius by Elgar, Alexander Nevsky by Prokofiev, Tosca by Puccini, La Bohème by Puccini) in Australia and overseas.