P1M—starting bid for Rizal’s ‘tampipi’
Among the curious Rizaliana items that will be bid out during León Gallery’s Magnificent September Auction Sept. 14 is the tampipi or woven-palm container in which his family kept smuggled
September 9, 2019
Among the curious Rizaliana items that will be bid out during León Gallery’s Magnificent September Auction Sept. 14 is the tampipi or woven-palm container in which his family kept smuggled
We watched the latest remake of the operetta “Noli Me Tangere,” adapted from the novel by Jose Rizal, set to music by Felipe de Leon Jr., poetic libretto in Filipino by, surprisingly, the sculptor Guillermo Tolentino, the cast all competent, in fact impressive singers who did justice to both the songs and the historical memory.
Though it has always fought to survive, Philippine theater has gone way beyond survival mode the past three decades. As it has doggedly shed light on the stark realities,
The temperature was freezing and it started to drizzle. We took shelter in one of the coffee shops along Unter den Linden Avenue, a fashionable avenue of aristocratic Old Berlin
After six months in Heidelberg, José Rizal, whose 156th birth anniversary the nation marks today, traveled by train to Berlin through Leipzig, Frankfurt, Bonn and Dresden, arriving in the city
A seminar-workshop designed to help Filipino teachers better understand the relevance of the historical background of Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere” and “El Filibusterismo” will be conducted on April 26 to 28 at Telengtan Hall, University of Asia and the Pacific, on Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.
In an exhibit that aims to present art as witness to life, and society’s ills and conflicts, two Filipino artists tapped into Rizal’s work to re-define 19th century political resistance for the 2017 Venice Art Biennale. This year, the works of Lani Maesto and Manuel Ocampo, dubbed as The Spectre of Comparison, and curated by Joselina Cruz, will be mounted at the Arsenale, one of the event’s main exhibition spaces. The Spectre of Comparisons was drawn from the phrase El demonio de las comparaciones of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere, a book that reflected the Filipino society under the Spanish regime. “The phrase encapsulates the experience of Rizal’s protagonist, Crisostomo Ibarra, when he gazes out at the botanical gardens of Manila and simultaneously sees the gardens of Europe,” Cruz said in a statement.
“Noli Me Tangere, The Opera,” written by the late Filipino National Artists Felipe de Leon (music) and Guillermo Tolentino (libretto in Filipino), runs at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Main Theater from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.
In connection with the 120th death anniversary of Jose’ Rizal on Dec. 30, Ballet Philippines will present back-to-back productions of “Noli Me Tangere” and “El Filibusterismo” titled “Crisostomo Ibarra” and “Simoun.” The two works are full-length ballets and will be staged for only one weekend, Oct. 21-23, although not one after the other.
Fresh from the box-office victory that was “Heneral Luna,” John Arcilla takes on the role of another hero in “Kabesang Tales (Isang Rap En Rol Musical)” which will have
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