The Shanghai Hongyimei Opera Company 上海弘依梅京劇團 was founded by Shanghai Peking Opera Theater Principal, Peking Opera star Yihong Shi and Princeton alumnus JP Mei.

The Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company (also known as the Shanghai Jingju Theater Company 上海京剧院) is a government-sponsored cultural enterprise established in 1955, with Peking Opera master Xinfang ZHOU 周信芳 as the first principal. This theater company enjoys a stellar reputation throughout China. Immersed in the southern city of Shanghai, the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater has developed its own style of propagating Peking Opera culture.

Shi Yihong 史依弘

Artistic Director of the Shanghai Hongyimei Opera Company

Principal of the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater and ranked Actor First-Class in China

Shi Yihong… is a Chinese Peking opera singer-actress who plays Dan roles. A Plum Blossom Prize winner, Shi Yihong is considered a Peking opera superstar who not only excels in both vocal and acrobatic roles, but is always experimenting and expanding her repertoire despite resistance from conservative elements. Shi Yihong is a member of the Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company, but she also established her own production company in 2016.

Some of Shi Yihong's best known roles include: Consort Yu (from The Hegemon-King Bids His Concubine Farewell), Yang Yuhuan, Mu Guiying, Kou Zhu, Li Qingzhao, Lady Mi, Esmeralda (from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), Wang Zhaojun, Madame White Snake, Xiao Guiying (from The Qing Ding Pearl), Duchess Zhuang (from Zhang Yimou's You and Me), Du Liniang, and countless others. She has also acted in Kunqu productions. In 1999, Shi Yihong starred in Tan Dun's The Gate, an orchestral theatre which debuted in Tokyo, Japan.^[1]

In 2018, Yihong Theatre opened in Baoshan District, Shanghai. This is the first theatre in Shanghai named after an opera artist.^[2]

From Wikipedia, December 2024 entry on “Shi Yihong” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Yihong