Meritorious Artist Truong Son: He became famous thanks to playing the role of a "dual double", happy even though the audience hated him

When mentioning Meritorious Artist Truong Son, people will remember unique, strange, and unusual roles. Those roles helped him become an impressive face on the stage and to this day, people still mention the name Truong Son when talking about stand-up actors.

Become famous thanks to "double poison"

Meritorious Artist Truong Son was born in 1950. His father is artist Bay Duc, a very good drummer of the opera troupe Vinh Xuan - Khanh Hong, then the opera troupe Minh To - Khanh Hong.

Born into a family with an artistic tradition, from a young age he lived with the lyrics, melodies and love for art that came to the boy Truong Son without realizing it. After that, he joined the Minh To Bronze Troupe and was taught every gesture and song by teacher Minh To. His child friends are Buu Truyen, Thanh Tong, Thanh Loan, Xuan Yen... scions of the Minh To family.

Talking about the first days of coming to Cai Luong theater, Meritorious Artist Truong Son confided: "When I was a child, my house lived right at Cau Quan communal house. I was fortunate to have many people instruct and guide me into the profession. I practiced. I slowly got acquainted with the profession from the smallest tasks like buying ice to help the aunts and uncles in the troupe. Many times I hid behind the scenes listening to my father play the drums, watching the aunts and uncles perform, my love of theater grew up in me from an early age. that time".

For more than half a century in the singing profession, Meritorious Artist Truong Son has made his mark through many unique roles. Whether in the main or supporting role, Meritorious Artist Truong Son shows the depth of his character. Meritorious Artist Truong Son said that he is most afraid of repetition, so he always tries to create unique features for each character shown. He spent a lot of time preparing for the role, from movements to singing.

He said, every time he takes on a new dual role, he tries to "erase" the entire image of the previous role to begin researching the character's personality, circumstances, background... He opened the drawers of memories and experiences to select the appropriate details and colors, thereby sketching a portrait for the new character. When learning carefully about the character, he continued to bring it to life by emphasizing the lyrics, dialogue, laughter, and dance movements so that the character's soul was clearly expressed. Because of that sophistication, Meritorious Artist Truong Son's roles are always remembered by the audience, many of his roles are considered standards.

Because he acted so well, he was often hated by the audience, but to him that was no big deal. Because, if the performance is standard and ecstatic, then the audience will "absorb" all the evil, poison, and hatefulness of the character, and for an artist, that is success.

"For an artist, the most important thing is to do well in his role, whether main or supporting, whether gentle or evil. The more a double role is hated by the audience, the more successful it will be. The more the audience hates the character, the more successful it is. The longer I miss myself," Meritorious Artist Truong Son shared. For that reason, he has a habit of constantly listening to see how much he is "hated" by the audience every time he plays a double role as a measure of the success of the role.

Painful feelings

Meritorious Artist Truong Son started coming to Cai Luong at the age of 10 and since then he has lived and worked hard. The more he loved his job, the more he felt sad when Cai Luong art gradually lost its unique position in the hearts of audiences. As the internet becomes more and more developed and television programs become more and more diverse, preserving ancient opera is not easy. For artists who have spent their entire lives with the Southern classical opera stage, how to retain the essence, beauty and keep this art form alive forever is a pain.

When his children decided to follow in their father's footsteps, he could not hide his concern, but he never stopped them, because he knew that doing so would be a mistake for his ancestors. "My grandparents gave me a profession, and now they let my children continue on that path. If I stop them, I will be very guilty. I just teach my children to live their lives to the fullest with their profession while they can. One time, Watching my daughter perform on a stage with a sparse audience, I shed tears," Meritorious Artist Truong Son confided.

Up to now, his children and his wife, artist Thanh Loan, have all become famous artists of the cai luong stage, admired by the audience. When Cai Luong no longer had the same appeal as before, he always accompanied his children to encourage, teach and pass on experience. When his two grandchildren came to Cai Luong, he was very happy and enthusiastically guided them.

Meritorious Artist Truong Son, even though he is in his twilight years, still stands on stage. For him, life is a stage, so old age and changing times cannot stop him. The happiest thing is that he is still loved, supported and warmly received by the audience when standing on stage. Before that, shows with the appearance of Meritorious Artist Truong Son still attracted many people. One time, he and his five children sang together on stage. He said, it was a memorable memory in his artistic life...

Artist Le Thanh Thao - daughter of Meritorious Artist Truong Son, revealed that her father has a difficult nature when meeting anyone: "My father's expression when he sees strangers is never to smile. Even though he greets, he only nods." .

Speaking of this, Dien Trung (son-in-law) quickly interrupted to ask for a correction for his father-in-law. He analyzed from a professional perspective, whoever needed him to teach him something, he would be as enthusiastic and open-minded as possible. "If necessary, my father will stand up to teach on the spot, without hesitation," Dien Trung described his father-in-law.

However, Dien Trung said that if Meritorious Artist Truong Son discovered someone had "intentions" with his daughter, he would immediately change his attitude. "Dad himself is the only man in the family, so the way he did it was to show protection. When I started asking about getting to know Thao in order to get married, he immediately changed his attitude. It started to get difficult. , it's extremely difficult, even greeting my dad was acting cool. I didn't even bother to talk and only answered in mono," Dien Trung recalled the first time he was made difficult by Meritorious Artist Truong Son.

Although there were difficulties at first, Dien Trung confided that when he officially became Le Thanh Thao's husband and entered the family, Meritorious Artist Truong Son loved him extremely much. "Any person, once he is sure that he is his son-in-law, his father will love him all," Dien Trung affirmed firmly.

Adding to her husband's opinion, Le Thanh Thao said, her father wants the man next to his daughter to truly love his wife and children and walk the same path whether in career or in life. "I really hope that my children will always be happy and always accompany each other on their artistic path as well as married life," Le Thanh Thao confided her father's thoughts.

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