"Khau Vai Love Story" premiered in the Southern region

From July 18 to 23, the Vietnam Opera House will organize a free performance of the opera “Khau Vai Love Story” for audiences in Ho Chi Minh City and several provinces and cities in the southern region.

"Khau Vai Love Story" was directed by Meritorious Artist Trieu Trung Kien and adapted from the poetic script of author Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen The Ky and staged into a complete cai luong play.

The Cai Luong play “Khau Vai Love Story” tells the story of a couple, Mr. Ba – a poor Nung man and Ms. Ut – the daughter of a rich Giay chief. The custom from thousands of years ago has determined that people of different ethnicities and different social classes cannot marry each other, so the couple ran away together to Khau Vai peak to live together. But then the two ethnicities had conflicts leading to bloody clashes, Mr. Ba and Ms. Ut had to suppress their feelings and return to their village to show their gratitude to their parents, to resolve the conflict between the two ethnicities. They promised each other that on this day next year they would go to the familiar Khau Vai peak to meet each other and only death could separate them.

Scene from the play "Khau Vai Love Story". Photo: Vietnam Opera House

A year later, the unfortunate Lady Ut came to Khau Vai when she learned the truth that her husband Co Sau had plotted to harm her father's Patriarch to succeed to the throne; and also heard that the Young Master Ba was living happily with his virtuous wife and a child about to be born. She decided to commit suicide. The Young Master Ba arrived later, when he saw that his lover had passed away, he also intended to commit suicide following her as he had sworn the year before. But because of his duty to his family, he had to live. And every year on the appointed day, the Young Master Ba went to the top of Khau Vai to fulfill his promise from years ago.

In “Khau Vai Love Story”, we encounter a worldview and philosophy of life that, although still very primitive, is filled with great humanity. There, love, forgiveness, nobility, and great responsibility towards oneself as well as the community are portrayed in a simple and touching way...

Debuting on the Northern stage since the end of 2013, the play has served tens of thousands of audiences in many provinces and cities including Nghe An and Hanoi, and has been broadcast live on the Television Theater program of Vietnam Television. Notably, the play was invited by the People's Committee of Ha Giang province to perform at the opening ceremony of the Cultural Week "Khau Vai Love Market Festival" in Meo Vac district last April.

During this tour in the Southern region, the troupe will perform at Ben Thanh Theater, Ho Chi Minh City (July 18-20). After that, the troupe will return to Dong Thap (July 21), Can Tho (July 22), Soc Trang (July 23).

According to Hanoi Moi