Ms. Mei-ti Yue, playing the young-man role type of the Kunqu
theater, is a distinguished countertenor who has attained
the status of 'national treasure' in performing art in
China. Blessed with a dazzling androgynous beauty, Ms.
Yue's young male scholars are as handsome as they are
cultured and refined. Ms. Yue has a clear and sweet
voice that is produced with virility and great lung
power. Her young men's movements are marked by grace and
agility; their expressions and emotions intriguing and
exquisite. Thus performing superbly in singing, dancing
and acting, Ms. Yue has earned herself the fame of being
the foremost performer of the young-man role in the
classical Chinese theater. Indeed, hers is a household
name to millions of aficionados in and out of China.
A graduate of the prestigious Shanghai
Kunqu Academy, Ms. Yue studied with the legendary master
of Kunqu and the founder of the Academy, Zhenfei Yu(1904-1995),
who also performed the young-man role type. Master Yu
considered Ms. Yue one of his most outstanding pupils,
and, long before Ms. Yue was graduated from the Academy,
predicted that Ms. Yue would one day be a great actor
carrying on the finest artistic tradition of Kunqu. Since
her graduation, Ms. Yue Meiti has garnered countless top
awards for performing art in China.
In Asia, Ms. Yue has been invited many
times to perform Kunqu and lecture on the art of Kunqu in
Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1987. Ms. Yue had a
three-month engagement of performances in England in
1987. She performed in Hawaii, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Los Angles in 1987, 1989, 1998, 2000, 2002-2007. Wherever Ms. Yue appeared, she
played at sold-out houses to enraptured audiences.