Opening of Hue Festival Week 2024 at Kien Trung Palace

For the first time at a Hue Festival, Kien Trung Palace stage inside the Hue Royal Palace was chosen as the opening venue for a series of festival activities and art performances.

Kien Trung Palace will be chosen for the first time as the main stage to open the Hue Festival Week 2024 - Photo: LE DINH HOANG

On May 22, the Hue Monuments Conservation Center announced that it had chosen Kien Trung Palace inside the Hue Royal Palace as the stage for the opening art program of Hue Festival Week 2024. This is a completely new stage, completely different from the stages that held the opening night of previous Hue Festivals, promising to bring viewers an interesting experience.

Kien Trung Palace shines brightly on the opening night of Hue Festival

The opening ceremony is scheduled to take place at 8:00 p.m. on June 7, opening a series of exciting activities of the Hue International Festival Week 2024. The program has elaborate and novel content, combining sound effects, advanced lighting technology and artistic fireworks. At this program, visitors will experience unique experiences and new emotions from the venue, modern technology, artistic staging and the proud beauty of a heritage site shining brightly at night. The program is a night of sound and light that demonstrates the unlimited creativity of artisans and young artists on the core foundation of cultural heritage values ​​of the nation and humanity. The quintessence of Hue royal court music, flower lantern dance, Nguyen Dynasty woodblocks, Nguyen Dynasty records, poetry and literature on Hue royal architecture... will become sparkling and shining thanks to the support of modern technology such as Laser, Led Matrix, Hologram, 3D Mapping on the semi-realistic art stage at Kien Trung Palace.

From June 7 to 12, Thua Thien Hue will experience a festival week with a series of unique cultural performances - Photo: NHAT LINH

The performances on stage will show Hue City "shining with heritage" developing sustainably, respecting nature, being friendly and peaceful; praising the land of "the magical ancient capital"; a place with a long tradition of "converging the tones" of regions at home and abroad; honoring a city of sustainable development with the aspiration of "shining forever".

Looking forward to a bumper festival week

During the Hue International Festival Week 2024, which lasts from June 7 to 12, there will be many special festival activities held during this time such as: street performance festival, Trinh Cong Son music night, royal banquet, vegetarian food festival...

Thien Mu Pagoda, a must-see destination for visitors to Hue during the festival - Photo: LE DINH HOANG

Especially for young people are music performances with the participation of famous singers such as Den Vau, Soobin Hoang Son... at the beer festival. Notably, Thua Thien Hue province will join the French Institute in Vietnam to organize the "Light Festival" during this time at the Hue Imperial Palace. A royal palace with temples and palaces artistically illuminated by 3D Mapping technology and hundreds of traditional lanterns will bring visitors a magical and interesting experience of the Nguyen Dynasty royal palace at night.

Hue expects a week of Hue Festival to bring good results for the tourism industry - Photo: NHAT LINH

Also on this occasion, many tourism programs are widely organized throughout Thua Thien Hue province such as Tam Giang Water Wave Festival (Quang Dien district), Thuan An Sea Festival... Coming to Hue on this occasion, visitors should not miss interesting destinations such as the tombs of Nguyen Dynasty kings in the lotus blooming season, cafes along the Huong River and Vong Canh Hill... In particular, visitors should also try the heritage train connecting Hue and Da Nang that has just been put into operation.

Nhat Linh - Tuoitre.vn

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