A three-hour gala featuring cai luong (reformed opera) will be held on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in Ho Chi Minh City on January 13.
More than 400 artists, musicians and dancers will perform in a four-hour gala featuring cai luong (reformed opera) on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in HCM City on January 13. The event is part of a month-long programme featuring traditional Vietnamese performing arts. (Photo courtesy of the producer)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Athree-hour gala featuring cai luong (reformed opera) will be held on Nguyen HuePedestrian Street in Ho Chi Minh City on January 13.
The event, which is part of a month-long programme on traditional arts,celebrates 100 years of cai luong, according to the city’s Department ofCulture and Sports.
It will feature 400 young and veteran performers, musicians and dancers, manyof them working for leading State-owned traditional art troupes in the city andsouthern provinces.
Cai luong stars of different generations, including People’s Artist Le Thuy,Minh Vuong, Thanh Dien and Thanh Kim Hue, have contributed to the art’sdevelopment.
The artists will perform famous excerpts from historical plays from the 1970sand 80s that are still popular today.
The excerpts will feature stories about the art’s establishment anddevelopment.
The event’s highlighted performances will be staged by young artists from eightprivate cai luong and drama troupes in the city.
Excerpts from Thai Hau Duong Van Nga (Queen Mother Duong Van Nga), Chien Binh(The Soldier) and Rang Ngoc Con Son (Pearl in Con Son) will feature patrioticthemes.
Rang Ngoc Con Son premiered at the National Cai luong Festival in Long AnProvince late last year.
The play revolves around the unjust death of national hero Nguyen Trai, one of Vietnam’sgreatest politicians and poets.
Meritorious Artist Kim Tu Long, director of Kim Tu Long Entertainment andService Company, one of the city’s private drama troupes, invested 800 million VND(34,490 USD) in production.
Long played a leading role in the play and won a Golden Prize for Best Actor atthe festival.
“Through our gala, residents and visitors will learn more about theestablishment, development and achievements of cai luong,” said MeritoriousArtist Hoa Hạ, the event’s producer and art director.
“Our artists have worked several hours a day in rehearsals. We hope to offer aclassic performance style with technology used in cai luong dozens of yearsago,” she said. – VNS/VNA
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More than 400 artists, musicians and dancers will perform in a four-hour gala featuring cai luong (reformed opera) on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in HCM City on January 13. The event is part of a month-long programme featuring traditional Vietnamese performing arts. (Photo courtesy of the producer)