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Philippine

Opera Theaters

... incorporates

Elements of Spoken Theater

  • Zorilla Theater
  • Principe Alfonso
  • Variedades
  • Quiapo Theater
  • Tondo Theater
  • Manila Grand Opera House
  • Metropolitan Theater
  • acting, scenery, costumes, and sometimes includes dance

Sandugong

Panaginip

Performed in a/an...

Lakangbini

  • opera house
  • cultural center
  • theater
  • auditorium

what is an

by Patricio Mariano

OPERA

  • First Filipino opera; by Pedro Paterno
  • First performed in the Zorilla Theater on August 2, 1902.
  • Later translated by the Englishman M.W. Loving with the title “The Dreamed Alliance”
  • An art and music form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called alibretto) and a musical score (usually in an elaborate theatrical setting).
  • Dialogue is entirely sung and not spoken.

staged at the Metropolitan Theater on December 19, 1933.

Philippine Opera

The element of tragedy, emanating from the popular themes of romance, deceit, murder, vendetta, and other elements of human frailty, became a favorite story pattern of the Filipino opera.

Prominent Figures

in Philippine Opera

middle part of

19th Century

Zorilla Theater

Manila Grand

Opera House

  • The emergence of the Filipino opera started to take shape.

La Lobra Negra

  • Foreign performers (including instrumental virtuosi) as well as opera singers and Spanish zarzuela performers came to the country to perform for enthusiastic audiences.

1. Bonifacio Abdon – composer and first Filipino conductor

2. Dr. Ramon Javier – first Filipino opera impresario

3. Orchestra Molina - known for their interpretation of operatic works as well as other classical compositions

4. First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos - established the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1969 which paved the way for other Filipino operas to be staged at a legitimate venue of international standard.

Metropolitan Theater (Met)

  • La Loba Negra (The Black She-Wolf) is a three-act Filipino opera. Acts I and II are based on history. Act III is based on a legend attributed to Fr. Jose Burgos.
  • The music was composed by National Artist FranciscoFeliciano, with libretto by soprano Fides Cuyugan Asensio.
  • The premiere was held in 1984 followed by another presentation in 1985.

Operatic Divas

Opera vs. Musical

1. Nelia Manalo - portrayed the leading role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata.

2. Mercedes Matias-Santiago - portrayed the role as Lucia in Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lamermoor.

3. Jovita Fuentes - portrayed the role as Mimi in Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme and eventually became one of our National Artists .

NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL FILIBUSTERISMO

  • Popular novels by Dr. Jose Rizal
  • Composed into operas by National Artist Felipe Padilla De Leon in 1970 and 1975.
  • Re-staged as musicals at the CCP with music composed by Ryan Cayabyab

OPERA IN THE PHILIPPINES

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