National Tuong and Folk Song Drama Festival

On November 14, the Department of Performing Arts (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) informed about the National Tuong and Folk Song Drama Festival - 2025.

Accordingly, the festival is organized to arouse the love, passion and responsibility to preserve and promote traditional arts of generations of artists and actors, and at the same time discover new creative factors in artistic work. This is an artistic activity of special significance, honoring traditional artistic values imbued with national cultural identity, helping the audience understand and love more Tuong and folk opera - two typical art forms, rich in aesthetic values and philosophy of life of the Vietnamese people.

Scene from the work participating in the National Tuong and Folk Song Drama Festival - 2022. Photo: NTBD

The festival is not only a forum for exchange, learning and sharing of artistic experiences between professional art units nationwide, but also an opportunity to propose innovative solutions in management, staging, performance and artist training methods, suitable for development requirements in the new period; honoring artists, authors, directors and units with outstanding contributions to the preservation and creation of traditional theatrical forms.

The National Tuong and Folk Song Drama Festival - 2025 brings together 14 elaborately staged plays, deeply reflecting social life, praising the traditional history, homeland, country, and people of Vietnam, honoring moral and humanistic values and aspirations for goodness, with the participation of nearly 1,000 artists and actors from 10 art units across the country.

The plays and folk operas participating in the festival all have a contemporary feel but still retain their traditional core, contributing to the building of an advanced Vietnamese stage with a strong national identity, aiming at the goal of developing culture for the people and arousing the aspiration for a prosperous and happy Vietnam. The works also aim to affirm the value of the national intangible cultural heritage of the types of plays (hat boi) and folk operas (folk opera melodies such as bai choi, Hue opera, etc.).

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will present prestigious awards to groups and individuals with outstanding achievements, including: Outstanding Award for plays and Outstanding Award for performing artists (1 male, 1 female); Gold Medals, Silver Medals for plays and artists; Outstanding Award for creative elements such as scriptwriters, directors, musicians, and designers.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/lien-hoan-tuong-va-dan-ca-kich-toan-quoc-2025-dien-ra-tai-ha-noi-723300.html