Thăng Long Ca trù theatre is the first and the only place having professional ca trù shows.Ca trù is known as scholarly music in Vietnam and has been developed within the history of Thăng Long - Hà Nội.

Thăng Long – Hà Nội is nearly 1000 years old, and ca trù has experienced the whole history of this place. However, the most glory period of ca trù was in XV, XVI and XIX century. At the beginning of the XX century, the western living style with its own entertainment forms began to stir up the old eastern city to finally giving birth to the new ca trù wave known under the name of đào rượu. New “guinguettes” mushroomed and their owners added to the Ả đào the new way of making profit: beside the true singers, they recruited other courtesans aiming only to serve the liquor to clients, thence the name of đào rượu literally “young lady serving the liquor to customers”.