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Bạch Tuyết
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Bạch Tuyết

NSND (People's Artist) Bạch Tuyết is a cải lương artist, director and theatre researcher, known by the title “Cải lương chi bảo” (Treasure of Cải lương). She is associated with the plays Tần nương thất, Tuyệt tình ca, Trăng thề vườn thúy and Má hồng phận bạc, and is the first person in Vietnam to hold a doctorate in the art of cải lương.

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1945born 24 December 1945 · An Phú

Career story

Born in 1945 in Châu Đốc (now part of An Giang), Bạch Tuyết sang from childhood and in 1960 studied under playwright Điêu Huyền, from there joining the Kiên Giang troupe. In 1961 she drew attention when she stepped into the lead role in Lá thắm chỉ hồng, was then invited to join the Thống Nhất troupe, and in 1963 received the Thanh Tâm Award for promising performers.

Joining the Dạ Lý Hương troupe in 1964, she won the Thanh Tâm Gold Medal in 1965 for her role in Tuyệt tình ca and from then on was called “Cải lương chi bảo”; in 1971 she co-founded her own troupe, later named the Bạch Tuyết Opera Troupe. She earned a bachelor's degree in Literature in 1985, graduated in directing from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1988, was awarded the title NSƯT (Meritorious Artist) the same year, and defended her doctorate in the art of cải lương in 1995.

She has written lyrics for more than 300 tân cổ songs, was awarded the title NSND in 2012, marked 60 years in the profession in 2021 and served as a coach on Chuông vàng vọng cổ in 2023.

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Awards · titles

NSND Bạch Tuyết proved her talent early by winning the Thanh Tâm Award for Promising Performer in 1963, and was then honoured as Outstanding Performer at the Thanh Tâm Awards in 1965. The State awarded her the title of Meritorious Artist in 1988 and People's Artist in 2012.

Award names are kept in Vietnamese as officially published. Linked items open the original press report.

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