Wei Haimin

Wei Hai-min (; born 1957) is a Taiwanese Peking opera singer-actress who plays Dan roles. A winner of Taiwan's and China's Plum Blossom Prize, Wei is a widely recognized Peking opera superstar. She is the first student of Mei Baojiu, who is one of the most well-known Peking opera masters in the world.

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 Orlando: A Biography, where she played an androgynous character — rare for female performers in this genre.

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