As I write this, I look forward to my visit to Dapitan in Zamboanga del Norte, where national hero José...
Tanghalang Pilipino celebrates its 25th season by opening in August with José Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere,” in commemoration of the...
The new production of the musical version of “Noli Me Tangere” fuses the creative talents of National Artist for Literature...
The last time Tanghalang Pilipino staged the Cayabyab-Lumbera musical-theater adaptation of Rizal’s novel “Noli Me Tangere,” the result was vastly...
Dulaang UP is staging next month “Noli Me Tangere: The Opera,” composed by National Artist for Music Felipe Padilla de...
In connection with the 150th birth anniversary and the 115th death anniversary of José Rizal this year, it is genuinely a scholarly opportunity to delve into how and why JR decided that his villain had to be a Franciscan friar.
In explaining what his great novel, “Noli Me Tangere,” was about, José Rizal famously notes that it “is a satire and not an apologia... there is in it pessimism and blackness because I see much infamy in my country...”
Dulaang UP opens its 37th season with the restaging of “Noli Me Tangere: The Opera,” the critically-acclaimed operatic retelling by National Artist Felipe Padilla de Leon of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere with libretto by fellow National Artist Guillermo Tolentino. This restaging is also part of the celebration of the birth centennial of Padilla de Leon. Touted by critics as the musical treat of 2011, the production had a successful, sold-out four-week run in November last year.
This July, Dulaang UP is bringing back to the stage last year’s hit musical, National Artist Felipe Padilla de Leon’s “Noli Me Tangere: The Opera.” In this operatic rendition of Rizal’s timeless novel, director Alexander Cortez successfully melds the classic and the fresh to create a theatrical feat that reaches out across all audiences.
Gantimpala Theater once again gives life to José Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere” through its stage version called “Kanser,” written by playwright Jomar Fleras and directed by Roobak Valle.
