Lê Dung Explained

NSND Lê Dung (5 June 1951 in Hòn Gai, Quảng Ninh – 29 January 2001 in Hanoi) was a Vietnamese soprano opera singer. She was a student at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and toured and performed widely in Eastern Europe.^[1] She won prizes at Sofia, Bulgaria 1987, Toulouse 1988 and Pyongyang. She was a member of the Hanoi Opera but also sang and recorded the works of Phú Quang and other popular songwriters. In 1993, she became the youngest ever person to be accredited as People's Artist ("NSND"), Vietnam's top artistic award for a living artist - second only to the often posthumous Ho Chi Minh Prize.^[2]

Discography

Vietnamese music

• 10 ca khúc Hồng Đăng, Saigon Audio, 1995
• 10 tình khúc Lê Khắc Thanh Hoài, Paris, 1995
• Âm thanh ngày mới
• Dạ khúc
• Màu nắng có bao giờ phai đâu
• Họa mi hót trong mưa
• Kỉ niệm vàng son 1
• Kỉ niệm vàng son 2
• Tiếng hát Lê Dung
• Tình nghệ sĩ
• Tiếng thời gian
• Những tình khúc thính phòng, 2001

Western classical

• O mio babbino caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
• Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode an die Freude", Le Dung, with Mezzo-Soprano Phuong Lan, Tenor Manh Chung and baritone Quang Tho. Hanoi Conservatory of Music and Hanoi Opera House. under the French conductor Xavier Rist. Televised performance.

External links

Listing of names of 1993 Awards of People's Artist (Vietnamese) on vi.Wikipedia

Notes and References

1. Indochina chronology: Volume 20, Issues 1-2 University of California, Berkeley. Institute of East Asian Studies, Texas Tech University. Vietnam Center - 2001 "Le Dung. Vietnam's famed opera diva died suddenly (30 Jan 2001) of a brain hemorrhage at age 45, only a few days after returning from a three-week tour of the Czech Republic and Poland. Dung was born in Quang Ninh province in 1956, "
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1144191.stm Famous Vietnamese opera singer dies