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[1] The ballet's libretto is based on Raffaella's life, featuring characters inspired by her friends and mentors such as Violette Verdy. The world premiere of Raffaella featured a cast of 50 dancers, many of whom had danced with Raffaella during her life. The music was performed by 42 members of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra.
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Saigon Opera House (Vietnamese: Nhà hát Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, French: Théâtre municipal de Hô Chi Minh-Ville), officially named Ho Chi Minh City Ballet, Symphony, Orchestra and Opera (Nhà hát Giao hưởng, Nhạc - vũ kịch Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), is a municipal opera house in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Ballet is a French word which had its origin in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance) which comes from Latin ballo, ballare, meaning "to dance", [1] [2] which in turn comes from the Greek "βαλλίζω" (ballizo), "to dance, to jump about". [2] [3] The word came into English usage from the French around 1630.
A Dictionary of Ballet Terms (3rd revised ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80094-2. OCLC 4515340. Minden, Eliza Gaynor (2005). The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-6407-X. OCLC 58831597. Glossary of Dance Terms. New York: New York City Ballet ...
Chèo is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam. It is usually performed outdoors by semi-amateur touring groups, stereotypically in a village square or the courtyard of a public building, although it is today increasingly also performed indoors and by professional performers.
After the departure of the French the opera house became the scene for several political events, [1] as well as the scene of street fighting during the fight for Hanoi. The Hanoi Opera House provides the names for the neighboring Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel which opened in 1999, as well as for the MGallery Hotel de l'Opera Hanoi, which opened in 2011.
In 1999, director Tran Anh Hung invited Hai Yen, only 17 at that time, to play a role in the film The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Vietnam/France). [3]In 2000, Hai Yen appeared again in the film Song of the Stork (Vũ khúc con cò), a co-production between Vietnam and Singapore, directed by Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình (Vietnam) and Jonathan Foo (Singapore).