Dream of theaters, complexes, tourism and night economy
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said on the sidelines of the National Assembly that the ministry is working to complete the task assigned by the Government to develop a project to soon form the national theater of Vietnam Ethnic Groups. "Implementing the Government's resolution, the Ministry has worked and reported to the Party Executive Committee to choose a plan, first of all determining the location. Through review, it is seen that the theater must be attached to the location, create a mark value, and connect to create a complex. Therefore, the Ministry is researching and developing a plan behind the Hanoi Opera House as a complex," said Minister Hung.
Hanoi Opera House
According to Mr. Hung, although the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is studying such a plan, this plan must have the consensus of many sectors and levels in Hanoi. "If this can be done, it will be a complex of Theater - History Museum - Revolutionary Museum... connected in front of Hoan Kiem Lake and a walking space. The complex is both connected and creates its own cultural mark, attracting tourists. Visitors have a place to enjoy and interact. Hanoi's night economy is also developing and connecting. Of course, there are other legal options being studied. We are just establishing a pre-feasibility project," said Mr. Hung.
Mr. Hung's opinion is similar to that of his predecessor, former Minister Nguyen Ngoc Thien. Mr. Thien was very enthusiastic about building a complex for sightseeing; building a tour to visit French works including the Opera House - National History Museum - Bac Bo Palace - State Bank... A tourism product has been formed, units such as the National History Museum, the Opera House have had presentations, and have staff who can explain.
However, the current status of this tour is not as expected. Only the tour section at the National History Museum introducing French architecture is maintained. The Opera House no longer has a tour to introduce this architecture. Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Hoan, Deputy Director of the National History Museum, said that the unit still runs a tour to introduce the museum's architecture. "We have tour guides from outside. We connect with the Opera House and the Northern Palace related to the museum's artifacts such as Nguyen Dynasty seals and Nguyen Dynasty hats. That means the end of the Nguyen Dynasty with the August Revolution, which took place at the Opera House and the Northern Palace. But we still cannot go inside the Opera House," Ms. Hoan said.
Thus, it can be seen that before there can be a new cultural "complex" for tourism and night-time economy, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism needs to handle the current very loose connection.
Anti-planning
Dr. Architect Vu Hoai Duc, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences (Hanoi National University), does not highly appreciate the feasibility of "cramming" a new theater behind the Hanoi Opera House.
Specifically, Mr. Duc said that in the area behind the Hanoi Opera House, even if construction is needed, the area related to the Hilton Hotel cannot be touched. The Pham Ngu Lao Street area is under the management of the Ministry of National Defense and cannot be built on. Also behind is the National History Museum, which is a national monument. "So we can only take the area behind the Vietnam Drama Theater in a very small alley, alley number 1 Trang Tien. If we demolish that theater to build on it, it will be too small. It is the land stuck between the Vietnam Industrial Chemicals Department and the General Department of Geology and Minerals," Mr. Duc analyzed.
According to Mr. Duc, if we want to have enough space to build a small theater, we must free up the "area" of the two above-mentioned agencies. But then there is the difficulty that there are already heritage buildings in that area. "It is very difficult to transplant a block behind that is both worthy of national stature and relevant to the remaining buildings. Organizing traffic space and intervening in the heritage space behind the Opera House is also somewhat unreasonable," said Dr. Duc.
Dr. Architect Vu Hoai Duc, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences (Vietnam National University, Hanoi)
Dr. Duc said: "Hanoi has an urban area with a defined development orientation for the West Lake and the North of the Red River. It is completely possible to do it in those directions, why do we have to put it in the Opera House? We have to put the new theater in a new space, enough for the project to become an attractive nucleus."
Dr. Duc also raised the question that if the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has a good intention of creating a complex, why not relocate the spaces behind, even the Drama Theater, to reduce density and also create a public space surrounding the Opera House. We should not interfere with it by building a new theater like that. "My point of view is to reduce density, connect the National History Museum with the Opera House. If the Vietnam Drama Theater can be relocated, it will be possible to connect through a walkway. People visit the National History Museum, end up in a large yard and then walk to a new open space at the Opera House," said Mr. Duc.
Professor, Doctor, Architect Hoang Dao Kinh, former President of the Vietnam Association of Architects, said briefly: "There is no land behind, only Mr. Khoi's (People's Artist Trong Khoi - NV) old theater. That's it, there is no other place. And no one builds a theater in front or behind."
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