Hanoi (VNA) – “My Fair Lady”, a classic British opera, has beenperformed in Hanoi from April 1-10 by 29 foreign amateur artists inVietnam .
Arranged by the Hanoi InternationalTheatre Society (HITS), which groups foreign amateur dramatic artists,the musical play is entertaining Vietnamese audience in celebration ofHITS’s 10 th founding anniversary.
“My Fair Lady”,which was played on the US ’s Broadway stage in 1956, won eightOscar awards when it was transformed to the screen in 1964 with avelvety voice of Julie Andrews.
The opera tells aromantic, peculiar story about Eliza Doolittle, a flower female vendorand Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who teaches Eliza to speak“properly” in order to become a lady.
It is directedby Kai Borchert, a vocal specialist from the Vietnam National Academyof Music, and N. Wendy Conway, who is working at the Sustainable RuralDevelopment Centre (SRD), plays the role of Eliza.
This is the first HITS-staged opera to have Vietnamese subtitle. Thereare some changes in conversations and an emphasis on the love storybetween the two main characters to help Vietnamese audience better enjoythe opera, said Kai Borchert.
All proceeds collected from ticket sales will be granted to the Highland Education Development Organisation (HEDO)./.