Mao Weitao
Lineage & School of Heritage
Her stage appearance is handsome and her bearing exceptional; in singing she follows the Yin school and has developed it further in keeping with her own vocal qualities.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1962 in Tongxiang, Zhejiang. Her representative works include Wu Nü Baishou (Five Daughters Pay Birthday Respects), Han Gong Yuan (Grievance in the Han Palace), Lu You yu Tang Wan (Lu You and Tang Wan) and Xixiang Ji (The Romance of the Western Chamber).
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Yueju (Shaoxing Opera), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; standing council member of the China Theatre Association; vice-chair of the Zhejiang Theatre Association; a first-grade actor; and a three-time winner of the China Drama Plum Blossom Award (at the 2nd, 11th and 23rd sessions). Mao Weitao entered the profession at the age of seventeen and graduated from the Zhejiang Provincial Art School in 1982, joining the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yueju Troupe the same year; in 1984, at the age of only twenty-two, she won the Plum Blossom Award and became the foremost xiaosheng of Yueju.
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