About the artist
Farinelli Prize winner from Beijing
Chinese countertenor Meili Li studied film in Beijing and voice with Michael Chance at the Royal Academy of Music. He completed his opera singing studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Yvonne Kenny with distinction. Li is the winner of the Farinelli Prize at the 2016 London Handel Festival Singing Competition.
Since then, he has been engaged in major opera houses and international festivals. He sang Spirito in Orfeo at the Royal Opera House, Astron in The Ice Break at Birmingham Opera Company, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Hungarian State Opera, Marco Fabio in Lucio Papirio at the London Handel Festival, the title role in Orfeo at the Beijing Music Festival, Cover Cherubino in Figaro Gets a Divorce at Welsh National Opera, Cover Linceo in Hipermestra at the Glyndebourne Festival, and the title role in Handel's Giustino at Theater an der Wien.
In the 2019/20 season he sang the title role in Handel's Giustino at Theater an der Wien and made his debut at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe as Alessandro in Tolomeo.
In the 2020/21 season, Meili Li appeared as Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina at the Hamburg Chamber Opera and as Alcasto in Argenore at Theater Münster. At Theater Lübeck he sings the title role in Handel's Tolomeo.
At the Badisches Staatstheater he made his debut in 2020 as Alessandro in the opera Tolomeo, re d'Egitto.
