Wei Hai-min

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wei.

Wei Hai-min (Chinese: 魏海敏; born 1957) is a Taiwanese Peking opera singer-actress who plays Dan roles. A winner of Taiwan's National Award for Arts and China's Plum Blossom Prize, Wei is widely recognized a Peking opera superstar. She is the first student of Mei Baojiu, who is one of the most well-known Peking opera masters in the world.

Wei Hai-min shot to fame in the 1980s with Wu Hsing-kuo's Contemporary Legend Theatre, known for adapting Western classics into Peking opera. In the 1990s she became the leading diva of the newly founded GuoGuang Opera Company. In 2009 she worked with Robert Wilson on a Peking opera adaptation of Orlando: A Biography, where she played an androgynous character — rare for female performers in this genre.

Filmography

Year English title Original title Role Notes
1977 Orthodox Chinese Kung Fu 名門正派
1978 The 72 Desperate Rebels 七十二煞星 Liu Mei'er
1995 Confucius 孔子傳 Nan Zi Voice role
2014 Design 7 Love 相愛的七種設計 Mark's aunt
2018 Kafka's Lovers XOXO卡夫卡

References

  • "Opera Artist – Wei Hai-min". Ministry of Culture (Taiwan). 2015-10-12.
  • "Beside the Plum - Gratitude: Mei School Peking Opera Highlights by Wei Haimin". National Centre for the Performing Arts (China).
  • Lu, Nancy T. (2002-03-21). "Wei Hai-min prepares to sing diverse opera roles". The China Post. Archived from the original on December 16, 2018.
  • Chou, Oliver (2014-11-02). "Wei Haimin awe-inspiring in ambitious project". South China Morning Post.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.