Hoi An Memories show,”The most beautiful in the world” – Reuters

“The most beautiful in the world” and “A feast for the eyes” is what reuters.com mentions about how the audience described the performance.
This musical performance takes Vietnamese traditional Ao Dai to be the main expressing language and modern stage technique to create specific contexts, advanced light technology, and subtle sound effects to tell the story of Hoi An more than four centuries ago with its bustle and charm.

Hoi An Memories – Vietnam’s largest musical performance with 2 records

Hoi An Memories show achieves 2 records: the grandest and greatest cultural show in Vietnam.
This show is a musical performance that started from humble beginnings in the small Vietnamese city of Hoi An and has now grown into a global phenomenon.
It is a large-scale musical show on the outdoor stage that accommodates 3300 spectators. Historical stories, anecdotes, traditional music, and traditional costumes are also used as materials for this show.
The stage length up to 1km. And there are more than 500 actors join the performance. The show applies the latest sound, lighting technology, and there are internationally leading experts to participate in the production.

5 impressive performances at the “Hoi An Memories” show

Chapter 1: The Life – Hoi An’s memories of the dawn of time

“Life” is the first performance in Hoi An’s memory to reproduce the vivid picture of the customs and life of Hoi An before.
At the beginning of the performance, there are two images going through the whole story: a girl weaves fabric and the light path with hundreds of girls wearing Ao Dai.

Chapter 2: The Wedding – Memory of Hoi An during the Champa period

Being inspired by the wedding of Princess Huyen Tran and the Champa King in 9th to 10th century – The Wedding Scene recalls a period of Cham pa culture in Hoian Vietnam. This is a magnificent performance with the most fairytale appearances in the Hoi An Memories show. Magnificent, shimmering and very lively make the audience immersed in the wedding like in a fairy tale.
The costumes in this performance are made very elaborately and beautifully, and the model of the elephants are closely associated with the culture.

Chapter 3: Ships and Sea – Hoi An memories of the transition period

Through dances and performances, the audience conveyed the message: “the hope of people on the shore and seafarers”. Besides that, sound and light effects help the audience feel more authentic content.
Did you watch the outdoor dance performance with a 2500m2 stage with hundreds of actors participating? A touching story but not by words but by dances. The performance brings extreme emotion to the audience. It was the most touching chapter, Boat and Sea, in Hoi An Memories show.

Chapter 4: The Shore – Hoi An memories of multilateral cultural interference

The main context of this chapter is the Hoi An international fair that integrates with the world to convey to the audience the bustling and exciting atmosphere of a busiest international port in Southeast Asia in the 16th – 19th century.
The Shore is the main highlight of the art show program “Hoi An Memories”. It not only showed the audience the memories of the prosperous period of Hoi An commercial port but also really made them satisfied with the careful preparation of every detail from character formation, acting skills to the sound, light and powerful actors.

Chapter 5: The Ao Dai – The combination of ancient “Hoi An Memories” with modern life

Hoi An is a rare city that preserves almost all the ancient values of hundreds of years ago despite experiencing many historical fluctuations. That makes Hoi An different and the people here have the right to be proud of international friends about their priceless values.
The End of the “Hoi An Memory” program is a traditional Ao Dai performance combined with ancient architectural works associated with Hoi An. In the space and sound of modern life rhythm, the girls ride bicycles along the light road, crept through every corner of the old town to take the audience to a Hoi An, reverently old but also modern in a particular way.

Schedules and fares

Schedules:
All night in the week – except Tuesday.
Time: From 19h30 to 20h45.
Ticket prices 2019

• Child tickets are half the adult fare
• Children under 1m do not need to buy tickets, accompanied by adults

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