Spanish conductor David Gomez Ramirez will conduct Vietnam National Opera and Ballet to perform opera extracts and contemporary dance at Hanoi Opera House on April 11-12.

 The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will restage the classical ballet Cinderella by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev at the city’s Opera House on April 7 and 8.

 The Vietnam Youth Theatre will perform a series of plays in Hanoi between April 5 - 10 to mark the 40th anniversary of its establishment. The opening performance of the five day extravaganza will be the play Who is the Culprit.  

 After a four year hiatus, the Vietnam Caricature Contest is open for applications again.

Crafting wooden fish, a wooden percussion instrument in temples, has become an integral part of a small village in Thuy Xuan ward, Hue city.

 Designer Viet Hung has started the Hoa Tho Cam Project to popularise traditional brocatelle.

 A man in Hanoi has been working as a guard and cleaner for Quan Chuong, the last gate of Thang Long Citadel for around 20 years.

 Events in Hanoi & HCMC on April 2-8 

 An exhibition at Hanoi’s Goethe Institute gives visitors a chance to see photos by this year’s New German Photography competition award winners.

The Indian band Pranavanaadham band will perform a concert combining classic instruments with modern equipment at Da Nang’s Nguyen Hien Dinh Theatre on April 4 as a part of cultural exchanges between Vietnam and India. 

 Carved woodblocks bearing the Sutras of Zen Buddhism at Bo Da Pagoda in Viet Yen district, the northern province of Bac Giang were named national treasures at a ceremony held in the locality on March 31.

 The Embassy and Consulate General of Australia in Vietnam will host the third Taste of Australia programme in April.

 A crucial ritual among Thai ethnic community to tribute witch doctors was re-enacted recently in Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany on March 29 received antiques which Berlin police seized from an unidentified Vietnamese entrepreneur in late 2016.

 The Australian embassy and consulate in Viet Nam will host the third Taste of Australia programme next month (April).

Ngo Hong Quang has filtered the essence of folk music and blended the elements into modern life to help traditional music become popular both in this country and abroad, creating a convincing East-West dialogue through music.

 Japanese and Vietnamese performers will debut a theatre production entitled Without Signal! by director Shuji Ondera at Vietnam Youth Theatre on March 30 and 31.

 The 2018 International Piano Festival will be held at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi from August 11 – 18.

 Some leading hotels in the central city of Danang and Quang Nam Province are putting on special food programs on the occasion of the upcoming Easter Day on April 1.

 L’Espace will present a fusion music concert entitled Les Transplantés or Transplanted on April 7.