VietNamNet Bridge – HCMC Ballet Sumphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will host a concert ‘Excerpts from Broadway Musicals’ featuring songs from famous musicals such as Les Misérables, the Phantom of the Opera, Notre Dame de Paris and Oklahoma at HCMC Opera House in downtown HCMC at 8 p.m. on July 19.

Singer Duc Tuan -- Photo: VNN

The concert will take place under the baton of conductor Tran Nhat Minh, with performances by singers Cho Hae Ryong, Nam Khanh, Duc Tuan, Ha Tram and HBSO choir and band.

The HBSO band will open the night with Richard Rodgers’s Overture Oklahoma from “Oklahoma,” telling liberal life and love stories of cowboys in Oklahoma. Then it will be followed by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin’s I got Rhythm from “Girl Crazy” staged by HCMC choir.

Ha Tram and Nam Khanh tell audiences love and desire of a hunchbacked guy Quasimodo to the beautiful Esméralda in Paris in the fifteenth century via Richard Cocciante and Luc Plamondon’s Ces diamants-là from “Notre Dame de Paris.” People will know more about the complicated lives of the poor in France in the 19th century with the overview upon history of French politics, moral philosophy, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love via Claude-Michel Schonberg and Herbert Kretzner’s  I dreamed a dream from “Les Miserables.”

The tragedy of love will make audiences moved via Gerard Presgurvi’s Les rois du monde from “Romeo et Juillette” then they will be delighted by sweet melodies and beautiful voices from Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s Part of Your World from “the Little Mermaid” and Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner’s I Could Have Dance All Night from “My Fair Lady.”

Duc Tuan and the choir will perform Mitch Leigh and JoeDarion’s Man of La Mancha from “Man of La Mancha” then Thanh Nga will rock the stage by T. Albinoni’s Anytime, Anywhere (based on Adagio) and Leonard Bernstein and Richard Wilbur’s Glitter and be Gay from “Candide.”

The beauty of love will be depicted again in Andrew LloydWebber and Glenn Slater’s Love Never Dies from “Love Never Dies” by voice of meritorious artist Hong Vy. The HBSO choir will continue the night with Andrew LloydWebber and T. S. Eliot’s Jellicle Songs for Jellicle cats from ”Cats.”

Duy Linh will show off his vocal talent in Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s Tonight from “West side story,” followed by Ngoc Tuyen and some vocalists with Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s I Feel Pretty from “West Side Story” and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart’s Suite from ”Phantom of the Opera” by Duc Tuan, Ngoc Tuyen and the choir.

Tickets are available at the Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square in HCMC’s District 1 and priced at VND400,000, VND350,000 and VND200,000. Students just pay VND80,000 for admission.

For ticket booking and delivery, call 08 3823 7419 or email: lamngochbso@gmail.com; info@hbso.org.vn; website: http://www.hbso.org.vn.

SGT/VNN