{"id":128,"date":"2017-10-02T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:19:08","slug":"hat-cheo-popular-cheo-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/hat-cheo-popular-cheo-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Hat Cheo<\/em>, Popular <em>Cheo<\/em> Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hat cheo<\/em> or <em>cheo<\/em> opera is a form of popular musical theatre accompanied originally by a small orchestra consisting of a fiddle, a flute, and a drum. In recent decades the size of the orchestra has grown greatly. The music is indigenous North Vietnamese and it is constructed from well-known stock melodies such as heart-breaking declamations and other themes suitable for the turns of the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group fig col2\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/vie11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/vie11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-709\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vietnamese opera employs stock character types from Chinese opera, here a young lady and an old man <span>Ari Huhtala<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/vie12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/vie12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-710\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vietnamese opera performed in the 1980s <span>Ari Huhtala<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stories are often based on local, orally transmitted legends. The language used is vernacular Vietnamese. <em>Hat cheo<\/em> does not employ elaborate scenery and flashy costuming. Thus it has been a traditionally outwardly rather modest form of theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat cheo or cheo opera is a form of popular musical theatre accompanied originally by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}