The ‘Nguoc Song’ (Reverse the wave) play performed by artistes from the Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Tuong (classical drama) won a bronze medal at the freshly-concluded 2022 National Tuong and Folk Opera Festival.

Meritorious Artist Tran Ngoc Tuan (4th, from the left), THE Director of the Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theater and other artistes and musicians received excellent individual awards at the festival. Photo: PV

National Tuong and Folk Opera Festival 2022 took place in Vinh City, Nghe An Province from May 17 to 28, featuring 16 plays by 11 arts troupes nationwide. 

At the closing ceremony of the festival on Saturday evening, the Organizing Committee awarded 3 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze medals.

The Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theater’s artistes performed the ‘Reverse the wave’ play on May 26.

In addition to the collective prize, individual artistes from Da Nang brought home one more gold and 3 silver medals for their outstanding role-playing parts in the play.

In addition, Meritorious Artist Tran Ngoc Tuan, the Director of the Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theater received the Excellent Orchestra Conductor award.

The theater's musicians and singers also brought home the awards for Outstanding Musician and Outstanding Vocalist.

The Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theater’s artistes are seen performing the ‘Reverse the wave’ play. Photo: Xuan Dung

According to the festival’s organising committee, this festival featured many plays with high quality, attracting a great deal of public attention.

In particular, there were many new and creative performances, bringing aesthetic feelings to the audience, helping them feel the subtleties of the art of Tuong and folk opera, creating a colourful artistic picture for the Vietnamese traditional theater.

The 2022 National Tuong and Folk Opera Festival was an opportunity to summarise and evaluate the quality of art and performance in recent years and build development orientations for professional Tuong and Folk Opera theatre units in the coming years.

It was also an opportunity for art units and artists to exchange, learn, exchange experiences, discover new discoveries in artistic creative work; thereby drawing lessons from experience in art management and direction, in order to create quality works to serve the people in the new period.

Reporting by XUAN DUNG – Translating by A.THU