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Dream and Reality: opera & blogging converge - Vietnamese youth

A special opera written by Vietnamese bloggers is about to be produced, “Dream and Reality”.

Blog Opera (/blogviet/blogopera/), sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Swedish Embassy in Vietnam is a forum for Vietnamese youth, especially bloggers, to share their ideas, feelings and sentiments about the topic “Dream and Reality”.

The programme also aims to encourage Vietnamese youth to approach opera through contributing their ideas and initiatives. Based on super-short stories (around 100 words) of bloggers on Blog Opera, a jury will select the best and unique ideas to develop them into an opera entitled “Dream and Reality”.

The most special feature of this opera will be the combination of various forms of art, music, dance, visual art, movies but it will be arranged in a new style: pop singing. This contemporary opera will be arranged and performed by reputed cultural and art agencies of Vietnam and Sweden.

People’s Artist Pham Anh Phuong, Director of the Vietnam Music, Dance and Drama Theatre, said: “This is the first opera of this kind in Vietnam. I think it is a new, interesting and very contemporary idea. It creates a new form of opera which is closer, more modern and easier to approach. We want Vietnamese audience to know more about opera and love this art through such programmes. We want to create a new playground for bloggers where they can show their wonderful creativeness and share their thinking and feelings to create unique and interesting stories.”

Launched on June 1, 2008, the website of Blog Opera is an open space for Internet users to tell stories about dreams and reality. Through this website, the organisers have received hundreds of stories.

The selection will be completed in August 2008. After that Vietnamese and Swedish scriptwriters, directors and opera artists will work together to premiere the opera in May 2009, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Vietnam-Sweden relations.

(Source:VNN)

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Dream and Reality: opera & blogging converge - Vietnamese youth

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