North Korean Revolutionary Opera Sea of Blood written by Kim Il Sung
A True Daughter Of The Party - North Korean Revolutionary Opera
North Korean Compilation of Revolutionary Opera Songs
Where are you, Dear General? [Subtitles]
Immortal Classic Masterpiece: Where Are You, Dear General?
Korean title: 어디에 계십니까 그리운 장군님
불후의 고전적명작 《어디에 계십니까 그리운 장군님》
Chinese title: 怀念的将军，您在什么地方 or 您在哪里，亲爱的将军
Japanese title: どちらにいらっしゃいますか、親愛なる将軍様
Performed by Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble on KCTV (Korean Central Television)
Written by Kim Jong Il in November 1971
A True Daughter of The Party
Is one of The Great Classic Revolutionary Operas That Was Produced Under The Direction of The Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il for the purpose of equiping people with a communist outlook. It tells impressively of the heroic exploits of Nurse Kang Yon Ok, a woman fighter who devoted her youth and life without hesitation to the Party and the Leader and to the revolution during the Korean War against the U.S. imperialist armed aggressors.
Kim Jong Il Always Alive in Hearts of Korean People
Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- The Korean people can hardly believe the sudden demise of leader Kim Jong Il as a reality. So they seem to communicate with him to express their inmost feelings the same way they did when he was alive.
Choe Hyang Ran, 31, work-team leader of the Indoor Swimming Pool of Kim Il Sung University, said after placing a bouquet before the portrait of smiling Kim Jong Il:
How happy I would be if my presentation of all flowers in the country and the rest of the world would help me see again Kim Jong Il, his face beaming with a broad smile!
We have been weeping bitterly for the last days before the place where he was seated, recollecting the tender-hearted leader who watched happy teachers and students during his visit to the swimming pool.
Kim Yong Nam, 47, artist of the Korean April 26 Children's Film Studio, said:
All of us are sweeping snow in our compound and on roads leading to it from early morning, feeling that Kim Jong Il may enter our studio right now.
We have spruced up our studio like a palace and prepared songs of best wishes for the leader but he passed away before appreciating them. We can never believe this.
Choe Kwang Ok, 26, told a reporter at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, in bitter tears with a newborn baby in her arms:
My baby was born on the morning of the day our father Kim Jong Il breathed his last on a running train on his way of field guidance to mix with the people.
He died at work after undergoing all sorts of hardships all his life to bring a happy future to the country. Has there ever been in the world such great popular leader as Kim Jong Il?
He did not pass away. He is always alive in the hearts of the happy children and in the hearts of all the people who have risen from sorrow to uphold the leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un.
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Video:
The song in Spanish (Voice of Korea)
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Pyongyang Station - 6pm Daily Alarm - Where Are You, Dear General?
Hundreds of visitors to Pyongyang have heard a mysterious chime in the early mornings and evenings emanating from the Pyongyang Central Railway Station. The music is entitled Where Are You, Dear General? and originates from a 1971 North Korean revolutionary opera “A True Daughter of the Party.”
This 360° video was captured with a 2017 Ricoh Theta V and the audio is ambisonic. For best effect, please put on a pair of headphones.
Morning in Pyongyang, North Korea. Very eerie.
some of the flims are allow to shoot in NK but they must show the good side of the country
Revolutionary Opera Цветочница / The flower girl (КНДР).
Революционная опера (Revolutionary Opera) Цветочница/ The flower girl/ Kotpanum chonio/ 꽃파는 처녀 (КНДР).
Leaving Pyongyang
Leaving Pyongyang, North Korea, by train on a rainy August morning. Contains an excerpt from the revolutionary opera 'A True Daughter of the Party'.
SEA OF BLOOD REVOLUTIONARY OPERA DVD
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Leader Kim Jong Il in the time of creation of five revolutionary operas
It was not unitl the early 1970s when the leader Kim Jong Il brought about a radical turn in the opera creation that opera began to develop into popular art moving the heart of all korean people. Opera in Korea had been in a stereotyped formula until then. Kim Jong Il nursed an idea to end the history of the kind of opera that was far from being an entertainment of the masses, and decided to create a new opera style. After seeing the opera With the Sunshine in the Pyongyang Grand Theatre in June 1968, he declared it was high time to put an end to the old-type opera and to create a new, Korean-style one. Later, in the early 1970s, the creation of revolutionary opera The Sea of Blood, an operatic version of an immortal classical work of the same title, began under the guidance of Kim Jong Il. During the creation, Kim Jong Il gave scrupulous guidance to artists concerned so that they did away with the existing form of opera and produced proper contents and form in all aspects of opera — including music, dance, plot, performance and stage arts — to suit the desire and emotions of the people.
Under his energetic guidance the revolutionary opera The Sea of Blood became a new type of opera in terms of contents and form, and made its successful debut on July 17, 1971. It was the declaration of the birth of a new-type opera. With this as the beginning, five revolutionary operas, including The Flower Girl, were successively created in less than two years. Different forms and means from those used in previous types of opera were introduced into the operas: songs were made stanzaic, dancing and pangchang (off-stage singing) were applied, and the running three-dimensional stage art contributed to display of vivid pictures.
The creation of the five revolutionary operas paved a new road of development of opera in Korea.
Korea Today No.660 June 2011
Pyongyang International Vocal Competition 제1차 평양국제성악콩클입상자들의 공연 2018
Pyongyang International Vocal Competition has the purpose to upgrade the artistic representation of the songs from 5 “Phibada”-type revolutionary operas created under the personal guidance of the great leader Kim Jong Il and other Korean masterpieces, as well as classic and famous songs from different parts of the world.
The Competition is also aimed at discovering new talented singers for their further development and promoting exchange and cooperation with different countries of the world.
-Uriminzokkiri
[Опера] «Море крови», д. 1 (русские субтитры) {КНДР}
혁명가극 《피바다》 제1장
Революционная опера «Море крови», 1-е действие (с русскими субтитрами)
Revolutionary Opera The Sea of Blood, Act 1 (with russian subtitles)
조선민주주의인민공화국 / КНДР / D.P.R. of Korea
조선중앙방송 / Корейское центральное телевидение / KCTV
«Настоящая революционная опера создана по одноименному художественному фильму, в основу которого положено бессмертное классическое произведение «Море крови», написанное во время славной антияпонской вооруженной борьбы».
Видео взято с сайта sptv.co.kr
Текст взят с сайта juche-songun.ru
North Korean Opera (sample)
North Korean Opera sample, as broadcast on DPRK TV earlier this year (from my special private stash).
Binge Watching North Korean TV Is Surreal — And Educational (HBO)
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While the world watches North Korea compete in the Olympics, we binge-watched North Korean television in an effort to learn more about daily life in the hermit kingdom under Kim Jong Un.
North Korea’s Supreme Leader comes from a long line of movie buffs. His father, Kim Jong Il, was passionate about filmmaking and believed in the power of the cinema to unite his country. His movies of choice were big military dramas with messages of duty to the leader embedded in nearly every frame.
But Kim Jong Un loves the small screen. Under his rule, state media has moved away from the communist epic and into more intimate, family dramas that air every night between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., when the power goes out in Pyongyang.
To understand more about what North Koreans are watching and what the government wants them to think, we arranged a screening with Jean Lee, who became an expert in North Korean television when she worked as a journalist in Pyongyang.
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Where are you, Kim Jong Il? [Subtitles]
Female solo and chorus of immortal classic masterpiece Where Are You, Dear General written by Kim Jong Il, watch the KCTV Music video with background story and explanation:
From the concert Love the Motherland given by the Unhasu Orchestra at the People's Theater August 2012.
Watch the whole concert:
경애하는 김정은원수님을 모시고 진행한 청년절경축 은하수음학회
Increasingly ardent song of heart
There is a song the Korean people sing, happy or in difficulty.
It is the song Where Are You, Dear General?, the theme song of The Story of a Nurse, one of the five revolutionary operas of Korea.
When the bright Big Dipper we´re seeing lights the sky,
We wonder where our father General is
Where is Supreme Headquarters with its dazzling windows?
We wonder where the General is sure to be now.
In this dark forest far behind enemy lines,
We wonder where our General is now.
For his loving care we yearn all the time
As the chilly autumn wind blows.
The words of the song were written by great Kim Jong Il in November 1971 when he was guiding the creation of the revolutionary opera.
The song has four stanzas. The first and second stanzas give a lyrical picture of the warm feelings of the soldiers of the Korean People´s Army yearning for the warm love of Supreme Commander
Kim Il Sung, looking up at the Big Dipper in the night sky behind the enemy lines during the Fatherland Liberation War. The 3rd and 4th stanzas represent their wishes for the well-being of the far-off Supreme Commander and their earnest desire to meet him.
The immortal masterpiece Where Are You, Dear General? the main character of the revolutionary opera sang with ardent longing for the leader, is now resounding from the hearts of the people as a song of infinite longing for great Kim Jong Il.
In our dreams we yearn for the father General,
Seeking our General, awake or asleep.
Far behind enemy lines your fighters look to northern sky
And render you homage each new day.
The dawn glow, showing us the long road ahead,
Brings us the warmth of his fatherly love.
We´ll conquer all obstacles, never yielding,
Striving to reach Supreme Headquarters and see the General.
The song Where Are You, Dear General? the Korean people sing from the bottom of their hearts will resound far and wide century after century.