An international symphonic competition has been organized to highlight efforts at preserving the Banaue Rice Terraces. Sponsored by Universal...
Leading modernist composer Chino Toledo has a new 11-minute work kiddingly titled “Hoy! Bata… (Hey Kid),” which he calls a...
THERE were eight choirs in all, plus dancers, at the Abelardo Hall of the University of the Philippines-Diliman that evening....
MANILA, Philippines—As part of its Drama-in-Education Program, St. Scholastica’s College Manila (SSC) has been staging since 1990 Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer...
When the curtain opened in the first act of “San Andres B.,” one saw a highly cohesive and compact production design by Eric Cruz, with the orchestral ensemble not in the pit but in one visible part of the stage, becoming almost part of the action.
It is not a rock or a pop opera,” composer Josefino (Chino) Toledo states categorically. “It’s a new opera, it’s a serious… well, it’s an opera!” He laughs.
Don’t expect a retelling of history when you watch Chino Toledo’s opera, “San Andres B,” which opens Nov. 29 at the CCP Little Theater. The production’s artistic team says the opera is about awakenings and coming of age—a reimagining of Andres Bonifacio as a hero of equal or even greater stature than Jose Rizal.
