''A True Daughter of the Party'' () is a

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revolutionary opera In People's Republic of China (1949–), revolutionary operas or model operas (Simplified Chinese: ''yangban xi'', 样板戏) were a series of shows planned and engineered during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) by Jiang Qing, the wife of ...

. First performed in 1971, it is credited to

Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...

. The opera is considered one of the "Five Great Revolutionary Operas", a group of classical, revolution-themed opera repertoires well received within North Korea. ''A True Daughter of the Party'' is the only one of the five set during the

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. It is performed with a male chorus, a smaller female chorus, with Western musical instruments, principally

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and

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During the

, Kang Yong-ok serves in the

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as a nurse for injured

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soldiers as they fight against the American forces.

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The main theme, "

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", is a paean to

Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...

, credited to Kim Jong-il as composer; it was added to the opera by Kim Jong-il after he noted that ''A True Daughter of the Party'' was unpopular and that "the reason for its failure was that loyalty to the great leader was not brought into bold relief and that there was no suitable theme song."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:True Daughter of the Party 1971 operas Korean-language operas Opera in North Korea Operas set in the 20th century Cultural depictions of nurses Films about the Korean People's Army Korean War in popular culture

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