Mei Baojiu

02-0502Peking OperaTraditional OperaBeijingBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Mei Baojiu came from a family of opera performers: his ancestor Mei Qiaoling was a celebrated Peking Opera dan actor, and his father, Mei Lanfang, was the far-reaching founder of the art of the Mei school. From childhood he performed as a principal actor in the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera Company, and he inherited the performance art of the Mei school in a fairly comprehensive way, winning renown in many countries and regions. The large number of Mei school inheritors he trained are themselves active on opera stages throughout the country.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1934 in Taizhou, Jiangsu. He is a national representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, director of the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera Company of the Beijing Peking Opera Theatre, a Peking Opera performing artist and a first-grade actor. His performance is fluent and natural, approaching the highest level of refinement; his voice is pure and bright, and in diction, melodic phrasing, spoken passages and movement alike he observes strict artistic discipline, faithfully carrying on the tradition of the Mei school. His representative works include Guifei Zuijiu (The Drunken Concubine), Mu Guiying Guashuai (Mu Guiying Takes Command) and Silang Tan Mu (Silang Visits His Mother).

References & Archival Sources

Mei Baojiu · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Peking Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-28
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Beijing
Born: 1934.03.29
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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