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A noted cải lương singer, Ngọc Huyền Popular artist Mộng Tuyền performs the leading role in a Cải lương Presentation Tuồng cải lương (Vietnamese: [tûəŋ ka᷉ːj lɨəŋ], Hán-Nôm: 從改良) often referred to as Cải lương (Chữ Hán: 改良), roughly "reformed theater") is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam.
Hát tuồng is often referred to as classical "Vietnamese opera" influenced by Chinese opera. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Tuồng is distinct from the older hát chèo genre of Vietnamese theatre which combines dance, song and poetry, and the more modern cải lương folk musical.
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.
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).
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".
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.
An original pair of red glitter slippers worn by Judy Garland in the famous film The Wizard of Oz are going on display in central London. The slippers, one of only four surviving pairs made for ...
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.