NSND Lê Dung (5 June 1951 in Hòn Gai, Quảng Ninh – 29 January 2001 in

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) was a Vietnamese soprano opera singer. She was a student at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and toured and performed widely in Eastern Europe. She won prizes at Sofia, Bulgaria 1987,

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1988 and

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. 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 People's Artist is an honorary title in the Soviet Union, Union republics, in some other Eastern bloc states (and communist states in general), as well as in a number of post-Soviet states, modeled after the title of the People's Artist of the U ...

("NSND"), Vietnam's top artistic award for a living artist - second only to the often posthumous Ho Chi Minh Prize.Famous Vietnamese opera singer dies
30 January 2001 "Vietnam's best known opera singer, Le Dung, has died of a stroke at the age of forty-five. She had just returned from a three-week-long European tour when she was taken ill on Friday. Le Dung had won prizes for her work in France, Hungary and North Korea. In 1993, she became the youngest person ever to be awarded Vietnam's top artistic accolade."

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 "" ("Oh my dear Papa”) is a soprano aria from the opera ''Gianni Schicchi'' (1918) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between her father Schicchi and the family of Rinuccio, the boy s ...

from

Puccini Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long ...

's ''

Gianni Schicchi () is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. The work is the third and final part of Pucci ...

'' *

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musi ...

" 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 The Hanoi Opera House (french: Opéra de Hanoï), or the Grand Opera House ( vi, Nhà hát lớn Hà Nội, french: Grand Opéra) is an opera house in central Hanoi, Vietnam. It was erected by the French colonial administration between 1901 and 191 ...

. under the French conductor Xavier Rist. Televised performance.

References

External links

Listing of names of 1993 Awards of People's Artist (Vietnamese) on vi.Wikipedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Le, Dung 20th-century Vietnamese women singers Operatic sopranos People's Artists of Vietnam 1951 births 2001 deaths People from Quảng Ninh province 20th-century women opera singers