Wei Hai-min


Wei Hai-min is a Taiwanese Peking opera singer-actress who plays Dan roles. A winner of Taiwan's National Award of Art and P.R. China's Plum Blossom Prize, Wei is widely recognized a Peking opera superstar. She is a student of Mei Baojiu.
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 , where she played an androgynous characterrare for female performers in this genre.

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