Natl. Changgeuk Company of Korea presents "Sopyeonje" during chuseok holidays 추석때 볼만한 공연, 창극 서편제
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| Title | Natl. Changgeuk Company of Korea presents "Sopyeonje" during chuseok holidays 추석때 볼만한 공연, 창극 서편제 |
| Author | Arirang News |
| Duration | 2:10 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=AkPgwDEWSnk |
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With most of the nation now on vacation for the Chuseok holiday,... you may want to fill up part of your day taking in a performance.
The National Changgeuk Company of Korea has put a new spin on one of the nation's most popular films... by using one of Korea's oldest singing traditions.
Our cultural correspondent Park Ji-won explains.
The Korean film "Sopyeonje" broke box office records when it was released in 1993,... and remains one of the most popular Korean movies of all time.
This enticing story,... about a family's life-long journey toward artistic perfection,... has been reborn as a changgeuk ,... a performance genre that modernized the Korean singing tradition of pansori.
As the story itself is about the lives of pansori singers,... changgeuk was a natural choice to re-tell the story of pansori singer Yu-bong and his daughter Song-hwa.
After Yu-bong sees potential in his daughter's singing voice,... he blinds her... so that she can focus all her energy on attaining the perfect sound.
He believes internalizing the emotion of sorrow and pain, known in Korean as han ,... is necessary to becoming a true artist.
"The character of Yu-bong requires many detailed expressions from inside. It was extremely difficult to act with the mind of a father who decides to blind his own daughter."
Three singers of different ages play the character of Song-hwa.
"Just as we get old and mature,... our singing become mature and ripens as well. Three different actresses of different ages will play the Song-hwa character,... and audiences will see that Song-hwa sounds more mature as she grows older."
The National Changgeuk Company of Korea presents the two-hour performance every day through this Saturday,... at the Haeoreum Hall at the National Theater of Korea.
Park Ji-won, Arirang News.
