(03-04-2008)
Eastside story: Young dancers perform in Le Corsaire. — VNA Photo Duc Ngoc
HCM CITY — French music and dance will be staged by Vietnamese artists during a concert next week at HCM City’s Opera House.
Conductor Tran Vuong Thach and the HCM City Theatre Ballet and Symphony Orchestra (HBSO) will open the event with Offenbach’s overture Orpheus in the Underworld.
Violinist Tang Thanh Nam will play Saint-Saens’ Havanaise.
Among the other works to be featured will be Faure’s Pelleas and Melisande, Op.80.
The concert will end with an extract from the ballet Le Corsaire, a popular work by Leo Delibes.
Some of the city’s most talented ballet artists, including To Nhu, Bao Trung, Phi Diep and Kim Thoa, will be performing pas de deux and pas de trois in a mazurka and valse choreographed by Marius Petipa, who is well-known in France.
Begun in 1994, HBSO’s concerts with young artists, who studied in Belgium, Russia and France, are becoming more and more popular with local audiences.
The show is part of French Culture Week launched by the French Cultural Exchange Institute, which opens on April 6 featuring music, movie and the visual arts.
The concert will begin at 8pm on April 9 at the Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, District 1, HCM City.
Tickets, ranging from VND60,000 (US$3.5) to 150,000 ($9), are available at the theatre’s box office. — VNS
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