Li Weikang

02-0505Peking OperaTraditional OperaBeijingBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Li Weikang first took the stage at the age of twelve and studied successively under such renowned artists as Cheng Yujing, Hua Huilin, Zhao Tongshan, Li Xiangyun, Xue Yanqin, Xun Lingxiang, Yu Yuheng, Zhang Junqiu and Li Yuru. In 1958 she was admitted to the National Chinese Opera School, and after graduating she worked at the China National Peking Opera Company.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1947 in Beijing. Her stage appearance is dignified and her stage manner poised; her voice is broad, bright and sweet. Her melodic phrasing is notably inventive, fusing the vocal art of the Mei, Cheng and Zhang schools into one, while she also absorbed whatever suited her own qualities and let emotion guide her singing, gradually forming a vocal style of her own. Her representative works include Qin Xianglian, Ba Wang Bie Ji (Farewell My Concubine) and Feng Huan Chao (The Phoenix Returns to Its Nest).

Honors & Recognition

She is a national representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a first-grade actor, a recipient of the first China Drama Plum Blossom Award and a specially appointed professor at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.

References & Archival Sources

Li Weikang · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Peking Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-28
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Beijing
Born: 1947
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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