In the ten years from 1958 to 1967, the Thanh Tam Award, established by journalist Tran Tan Quoc, awarded the gold medals to 24 young actors. And in 2 years from 1965 to 1967, it also awarded 6 gold medals to the Artists Excellence Award....

At the age of twenty Duong looked fairly handsome, with a fresh complexion and gentle manners....

A dance performance based on the epic Vietnamese love story between My Chau and Trong Thuy will debut on June 2 at the municipal Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring dancers from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK)....

Hue where the secrets of the old imperial palace are kept and where Mr Tran Kich, one of the two last instrumentalists of Nguyen dynasty, is maintaining the Nha Nhac quintessences bequeathed by ancestors....

About twenty years ago, along Ly Nam De Street in Ha Noi, Mrs Mao the widow carried two big bamboo baskets on her shoulder pole to pick up frangipani flowers strewn abundantly on the courtyards of its public buildings during the night. After picking up the flowers, she swept their wide expanses......

In the cai luong arts in the South, there are many fine names associated with the talented artists such as: King of cai luong singing Ut Tra On, King of funny cai luong singing Van Huong, King of xang xe tune Minh Chi, Emperor of plastic disk Tan Tai, Queen of sadness Ut Bach Lan, Queen of stage......

"Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass," a highly anticipated movie, will be brought to the Cannes Film Festival later this month, with the hope to find an international distributor....

Ca tru singer Pham Thi Hue just finished a three-month trip to introduce Ca tru to students in the city of Cleveland (Ohio, USA). During her free time, she joined a world-music band. She is now in Taiwan to teach traditional music of Vietnam....

My Life wouldn't have been a good life if it wasn't for the Vong Co melody" Minh Canh Said with all sincerity....

At "Thien Nhai Tu" temple, a young sadi with the name Tran Tu Tam (Nghe Si Minh Canh) led a peaceful, carefree life of a monk. One cloudy day, a girl called Nhuoc Thuy (Nghe Si Phuong Lien?) came out of nowhere and gave him a letter which told of a horrendous murder that took place 20 years ago......

Grammy-Award winning conductor David Alan Miller will perform with Vietnam’s national orchestra in Hanoi this Friday and Saturday....

Cai luong is known as the traditional arts of singing and performing. The harmonious combination between the music band and the singers gives extremely good performance, and in some cases, the music band guides the singers to move along with the music and sing. Therefore, the singers seldom sing......

The cai luong (reformed theatre) play Nua Doi Huong Phan (The Flavour), a famous production by scriptwriters Hai Trieu and Hoa Phuong, will be restaged in a new version 58 years after its premiere....

Modern vọng cổ is made up of six phrases of thirty-two measures. A noticeable cadence ends each sub-phrase of four measures. At this cadence, all instruments (and the vocalist) come back together, usually hitting the same note. At eight measures before the end of a phrase, the song loan is tapped......

Actress Bich Hanh spent all her childhood with her parents at the Kim Chung troupe where she grew up and became a well-known actress. It seems she got every chance to be successful in her artistic career as her parents were working for a long time for the Kim Chung troupe, starting in the North and......

For Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, Snow White and the Huntsman was like a bite out of a poison apple. It was the kind of story Walt Disney built his company around, but the 2012 film was released by rival Universal Studios, and the characters were played by live actors. “Why aren’t we......

The real name of the well–known actor Viet Hung was Nguyen Huu Hung. He was born in 1923 in Nha Trang, a coastal city in central Vietnam. Because of hardship, he, along with his mother and his elder sister, moved to Da Lat, a highland city. They later settled in Saigon....

After learning that the Hoa Binh Theater is going to have a liveshow for NSUT Ut Bach Lan , I decided to pay her a visit. Her small house on Tran Hung Dao Street looks the same – still the lonely hammock where she usually sits to study her lines and the Buddha altar with incense burning. Ms. Ut is......

Down the Mekong delta, one can see the rivers wind through the peaceful villages surrounded by bamboo. Year after year, these forever-young rivers carry the alluvium to nourish the paddy fields that produce fat rice crops. The people here for many generations have put in long and hard work to......

Tran Quang Hai is a talented musical scholar, who lives in France and has given more than 3,000 concerts in 65 countries worldwide. Together with his father, renowned Professor Dr Tran Van Khe, and his wife, famous singer Bach Yen, he has been contributing to the research, promotion and honouring of......