Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet - The once-illustrious peach is no less than Le Thuy and the "afternoon" age of illness

Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet has a very kind face. And her motherly roles always leave a deep impression on the audience.

One night while performing in Van Gia town (Van Ninh, Khanh Hoa), Thanh Nguyet heard the news of her mother's death and wanted to faint right on stage, but she had to try to fill her shoulders. When the velvet curtain closed, it was also the time when the main actress hurriedly prepared her luggage to return to her hometown of Bac Lieu. Thousands of miles away, it took nine days and nights for Thanh Nguyet to return to the house with the familiar hammock that her mother used to lie on, but she was no more...

"Mom comes back to act with me, listen to me!"

On the day she left home to join the singing group, Thanh Nguyet was only 16 years old, and she brought a few clothes that were sewn by her mother. How many times the group toured through the western provinces but never stopped at home. Once, when the Trung Vuong group set up a theater in Dien Truong (My Tho, Tien Giang), Thanh Nguyet suddenly saw her mother's figure from afar, she was so happy that she burst into tears. On the way from Bac Lieu to Saigon to visit her first child, she happened to see a billboard advertising the night of the show with the name Thanh Nguyet, an old mother riding a buggy to visit her son. "At that time, I still wore my grandmother's shirt and black pants like in the days when I was in the countryside. My mother said that she looked very good, I hope her daughter will keep her simple country style like that. She stayed for a day and planned to watch me sing, but Unfortunately, the group did not have a performance that night," - Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet said sadly.

Since then, she has not had the opportunity to visit the choir to visit her daughter again.

The elderly mother quietly passed away in the night after a period of serious illness. Thanh Nguyet received the news while performing the play Vietnamese Mother in Van Gia town (Van Ninh, Khanh Hoa). It was around the end of 1963. "When I got home, I thought that the whole family must be having a gathering of brothers and sisters and neighbors. Unexpectedly, the atmosphere was so quiet, when I entered the house, I only saw the altar of my mother. When I tried to go to the grave, I saw my brother sitting and carving his name on my mother's grave. That moment, I will never forget" - Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet recalled.

Her hair is also gray now, but the memory of the day when she couldn't see her mother's face for the last time was forever imprinted in her subconscious. Love and pain remained in the depths of her heart, so that when she transformed into a mother on stage, the artist acted as if a mother was also coming back to watch her daughter act, cry and laugh with her child. girl on stage. Perhaps, that unrelenting pain and nostalgia mixed with the emotions of the characters, making the mother incarnations on the stage of Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet, with a gentle and simple acting style, always have weight. , deep down.

Talented, dedicated and dedicated

In the small house in Go Vap District (HCMC) of Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet - Quoc Nhi, in addition to photos of the roles, Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet also keeps a lot of memorabilia of a glorious time: the Brooches, combs of once-shining roles. Thanh Nguyet's name from the 1990s to later is often associated with the image of a sad mother. But the young lady of the past was so "glamorous" that when she heard about it, one could imagine a time of beauty and beauty like a clear moon.

Before 1975, she sang in many troupes: Hoa Sen, Kim Chuong, Kim Chung, Thai Duong, Folk Songs, etc., and played the main role in classic reformed plays: Duong Minh Hoang - Duong Quy Phi, Thien Thien. First Sword, Song Long Than Thuong, Monk and Bandit General, Manh Le Quan, Goddess's Daughter... In 1965, Thanh Nguyet was awarded a gold medal at Thanh Tam Award (the previous year's award belonged to two artists. Thanh Sang and Le Thuy). After 1975, she continued to go to the National Singing Group of boss Nam Cu, this group gathered all famous artists' names: Thanh Nga, Huong Lan, Ut Bach Lan, Hung Cuong, Hung Minh, Thanh Duoc. ... followed by groups of Thanh Minh - Thanh Nga, group 2-84, Tran Huu Trang...

In the play An Loc Son Love Story, artist Thanh Nga plays the role of Duong Quy Phi, artist Hung Cuong plays An Loc Son, while Thanh Nguyet takes on the role of Ngo Phi. When returning to the army to join the reform group 2-84, Thanh Nguyet and Meritorious Artist Thanh Vy then took turns to take on the main roles in the plays: Queen Duong Van Nga, The island of Venus... "Once gone. Touring the Central region, the troupe performed twice a day with the play Queen Duong Van Nga, so for 17 days and nights. Loved by the audience, the artist brothers and sisters were passionate about serving, no one knew what it was." - Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet recalled.

Although there were many times when he was too tired and fainted, he had to go to the emergency room in the night, but the artist brought his lyrics and sang along the tour from the South to the Central region, to Hanoi and the whole world. Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh with all the enthusiasm of youth. Everywhere, Miss Thanh Nguyet also received the love and admiration of a large audience. In 1990, Thanh Nguyet was awarded a gold medal at the 1990 National Professional Theater Festival for her role as Mrs. Mai in Lullaby of the Sea.

An aura of Thanh Nguyet but also a golden age of the cai luong stage. Twenty years later, many names of the past have disappeared. Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet said that all her life, she looked back and only saw the luck and love that the ancestors gave.

Her life has now passed the age of seven decades, looking back like a "moonlight fairy" because it was so beautiful. Later, every time she watched old plays or stepped on stage with a class of young artists, Meritorious Artist Thanh Nguyet said she was always happy because she had lived and devoted her whole life to the reformed art. The good roles are not mentioned, many old cai luong plays were not recorded, but in her memory, she will never forget the time when she sang the lyrics and the roles that can also be called "to life", through plays: Sea water rained on source, Quy Bao, The boatman by the river, Tuyet love song, Crossing the bitter bridge, Dusty sea swallow...

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