NSND Phạm Quý Dương (Hải Dương, 1937 - 28 June 2011 at Hanoi) was a Vietnamese classical singer, and vocal coach at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.[1] He was selected by Russian voice coaches as the singer to sing the lead baritone role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the Hanoi Opera in 1960, thus becoming Vietnam's first opera singer. He completed his training with Belcanto arias, some of which had been retained in the opera's repertoire from the French colonial period.[2] In later years, together with NSND Trần Hiếu and NSƯT Trung Kiên, Quý Dương was counted as one of those affectionately known as the "3C Trio" (Vietnamese Tam ca 3C, from tam ca 3 “cụ”, old) - a term loosely modelled on Europe's Three Tenors, though the three did not perform as a trio.[3]
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- ^ People’s Artist and revolutionary hero Pham Quy Duong dies Thursday, June 30, 2011 "Pham Quy Duong, the nation’s first opera singer and first vocal coach at the Vietnam National Academy of Music, died on Tuesday aged 75 after ten years of fighting a kidney disease."
- ^ Nghệ sỹ Quý Dương: Tình ca dài theo đất nước
- ^ NSND Trần Hiếu và Tam ca 3C 09/02/2001 "Nghệ sĩ Trần Hiếu. Vào dịp đầu năm, 3 nghệ sĩ Trần Hiếu, Trung Kiên, Quý Dương đã thành lập Tam ca 3C, tức tam ca 3 “cụ”, và liên tục có mặt tại các chương trình ca nhạc lớn."