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[paleaswater]

Li Yugang(李玉刚） is a very popular entertainer right now in China. While he is not exactly an classical Chinese opera singer who specialized in females roles, but rather a female impersonator in the Western sense, he somehow has managed to capture the imagination of the modern Chinese audience and to some degree resurrect the mystic of these actors

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[flemmings]

He's exquisite. Is it the opera itself, or his performance of the female roles, that's considered not in good taste? It all looks immensely entertaining to me, and classical opera (what I've seen of it) normally doesn't.

[paleaswater]

Oh, you'll understand the part about good taste had I linked to his version of Lady Zhao's Farewell, which features a platoon of topless young men gyrating in sheepskin, to the accompaniment of some psuedo-Mongolian sheep-hearing ditti. ^^;;;;

[flemmings]

That sounds-- Well, that *doesn't* sound like Chinese opera, agreed.