Amid the threats of another Taal eruption and the spread of the novel coronavirus, the new production of “Lucia di...
The good thing about the latest Manila staging of “La Boheme” is that it was presented by MusicArtes, a group that never gives up on an artform that needs substantial logistics to mount.
The University of the Philippines (UP) College of Music is 98 years old this year.
The case of 29-year-old actor Jonathan Tadioan playing the role of 63-year-old Willy Loman in Tanghalang Pilipino’s production of “Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente”—Arthur Miller’s classic “Death of A Salesman” translated into Filipino by Rolando Tinio—can very well be the theater curiosity of the season.
There are recurring images of Cecile Licad, Lea Salonga, Lisa Macuja Elizalde and Gerard Salonga replaying in my mind as I look forward to their joint engagement at the CCP Main Theater on March 17.
When sensational Australian soprano Claire Primrose debuts in Manila on Nov. 10 with the Manila Symphony Orchestra at Philamlife Theater, she will have ended an 18-year drought of Wagnerian sopranos in Manila.
Recitals are a good way of gauging the growth and transitions of performing artists.
One of the most disconcerting things about Christmas concerts is that you get an overdose of Christmas carols some of which are better off heard on noontime TV shows than showcased in a formal concert.
You can have another look at violinist Gina Medina when she teams up with cellist Wilfredo Pasamba and pianist Mary Anne Espina in an evening of chamber music on July 20 at Filipinas Heritage Library.
By his own reckoning, actor Fernando “Nanding” Josef—now artistic director of Tanghalang Pilipino—has spent 40 years in theater. This, he said, is instrumental in his getting the kind of unique education he would never have learned in the classroom.
