Yue Meiti
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han, born in 1941 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Yue Meiti began her artistic training in 1957 and graduated in 1961 from the first Kunqu actor class of the Shanghai Traditional Opera School. She specializes in xiaosheng roles and was taught by such Kunqu masters as Yu Zhenfei and Shen Chuanzhi; she is especially skilled at conveying the temperament and bearing of the Yu school of xiaosheng. Her performance is free and ethereal, fresh and refined, and she has long been known as the foremost female xiaosheng of Kunqu. Her representative works include Shihua Jiaohua (Picking Up the Portrait and Calling It Back) and Sima Xiangru.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Kunqu Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; a first-class actor; and winner of the fourth China Drama Plum Blossom Award.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
- Kun Qu Opera Ⅳ-1
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