Nguyen thanh lam cai luong

Vietnamese form of modern folk opera

Tuồng cải lương (Vietnamese:[tûəŋka᷉ːjlɨəŋ], 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.

Nguyen thanh lam cai luong

It blends southern Vietnamese folk songs, classical music, hát tuồng (a classical theatre form based on Chinese opera), and modern spoken drama.

History and description

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, although it is now in decline.^[1][2]

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