rieu Trung Kien was born and grew up in an artistic traditional family. His mother is a cai luong artist of the Vietnam National Cai luong Theatre. His father is a director. When he was a child, he desired to become an artist. He started to perform on stage at the age of 7....

For movie lovers interested in seeing films made by new and emerging Vietnamese talent, the Viet Film Fest is just two weeks away. The Viet Film Fest, formerly known as the Vietnamese International Film Festival, will make its way into theaters in Southern California April 16-19 at the UltraLuxe......

Vọng cổ is a song, or more appropriately a cycle or pattern, performed in cải lương opera (renovated theater). Although created in the twentieth century, it is most similar to and has its roots in nhạc tài tử chamber music of south Việt Nam. As the central foundation to cải lương opera, it provides......

Everybody has some good and bad memories to cherish or to leave behind. There are certain memories that make us laugh, and other memories that make us cry. While this soundtrack is playing many of my old memories come flooding back....

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......

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......

A veteran artist, who pioneers contemporary solo puppetry in Vietnam, has opened the country’s first such museum....

Pham Thi Vinh had no idea why her Facebook account was locked out all of a sudden last month, but has a hunch on some of the recent photos she uploaded on the world’s largest social network....

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....

The 13th Vietnam Poetry Day opened in Hanoi, Quang Ninh and Bac Ninh northern provinces from March 2-7....

The following three singers, each of whom is Vietnamese traditional music performer, one after another, brightened up and beautified the already popular theatrical arts of Cai Luong (Southern traditional folk plays). Three different characters, three singing voices, three completely different......