pansori
Americannoun
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The production, conceived and directed by Ong Keng Sen, uses pansori — an ancient Korean musical storytelling style — along with K-pop to deliver the ancient Greek tragedy about the costs of war.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
The production, performed in Korean with English subtitles, fuses the traditional Korean musical storytelling form of pansori with K-pop music.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022
There are only five surviving full-length pansori pieces in existence, and seven fragments.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2018
There, he attended a performance by pansori superstar Ahn Sook-sun, one of the country’s “national living treasures”.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2018
The pansori trio, taking liberties with traditional Korean music, featured a coloratura who punctuated her near-ultrasonic runs with the intermittent odd directives “play and run around” and “come on and get it — throw.”
From New York Times • May 27, 2011
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