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Cải lương originated in Southern Vietnam in the early 20th century and blossomed in the 1930s as a theatre of the middle class during the country's French colonial period. Cải lương is now promoted as a national theatrical form. Unlike the other folk forms, it continued to prove popular with the masses as late as the 1970s and the 1980s ...
He was the original composer of the song vọng cổ which started a new genre of cải lương music in the 1920s. [1] [2] He was born on 22 December 1892 in Long An province, French Cochinchina. At the age of 4, he moved to Bạc Liêu and spent all his life there.
Duet 6 verses Vọng cổ by Năm Cơ and Văn Vĩ. Vọng cổ (Vietnamese: [vâwŋmˀ ko᷉], chữ Hán: 望 古, "nostalgia") is a Vietnamese song and musical structure used primarily in the cải lương theater music and nhạc tài tử chamber music of southern Vietnam. [1]
The song Dạ cổ hoài lang marked the beginning of the iconic vọng cổ melody, which has become a subgenre on its own within the đờn ca tài tử and cải lương music that for many people Lầu's Dạ cổ hoài lang is still synonymous with vọng cổ.
Đờn ca tài tử Orchestra in Saigon, 1911. Đờn ca tài tử (Chữ Hán: 彈 歌 樂 才子) or nhạc tài tử (樂才子) is a genre of chamber music in the traditional music of southern Vietnam.
Cải lương can be compared to a sort of play with the added aspect of Vọng cổ. This term literally means "nostalgia for the past", it is a special type of singing with the background music often being the đàn tranh zither or the đàn ghi-ta (Vietnamized guitar).
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This brought People's Artist Út Trà Ôn into the supreme class in cải lương. This is the "King of Vọng Cổ", when mentioning Vien Chau, people immediately remember "Tình anh bán chiếu". This is the "King of Vọng Cổ", when mentioning Vien Chau, people immediately remember "Tình anh bán chiếu".