Launching the Cai Luong competition "Moc Quan"

The contest aims to select good voices of the Southern amateur music movement, to add to the team of young actors of the traditional art stage. The contest is also an opportunity for professional and non-professional contestants to meet, exchange, learn, improve skills and knowledge of the history of traditional theater, especially for non-professional contestants, it will be a useful experience to strive to become professional actors.

Artists Hong Thuy and Le Duy of Tay Do Theater are performing a vọng cổ song. (Photo: THANH HIỆP)

The competition will take place at Tay Do Theater and the "Moc Quan - Nguyen Trong Quyen" Memorial Area (Can Tho City). "Moc Quan - Nguyen Trong Quyen 2023" has 3 rounds: preliminary round (expected on September 22, 23, 24); semi-finals (expected on October 7 and 8); final round and award ceremony expected to take place on November 3.

In the preliminary round, contestants will compete in 2 self-selected vọng cổ verses and a class or some verses from 20 ancestral songs of the Southern folk music art. In the semi-final round, contestants will perform an excerpt from cải lương. In the final round, contestants will duet in a complete vọng cổ verse, and answer questions about the composer "Mộc Quán - Nguyễn Trọng Quyền"...

Source: https://nld.com.vn/van-nghe/khoi-dong-cuoc-thi-cai-luong-moc-quan-nguyen-trong-quyen-2023-20230817220235726.htm