‘La Boheme’ to be mounted; Arrieta returns to the concert hall
Another opera treat coming is the mounting of Puccini’s “La Boheme” at Samsung Hall, SM Aura, Oct. 18-19, under the direction of Anton Juan.
October 13, 2014
Another opera treat coming is the mounting of Puccini’s “La Boheme” at Samsung Hall, SM Aura, Oct. 18-19, under the direction of Anton Juan.
Forty-one years ago, on Sept. 22, I reported to the pre-martial law Graphic Magazine office in Port Area only to find it closed.
More than two decades ago, Rowena Arrieta, the Philippines’ only “concert pianist to have learned Soviet music first hand from a Russian mentor in a Russian conservatory,” conquered New York with exceptional performance at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Rowena Arrieta is an outstanding graduate of the Philippine High School of the Arts (PHSA) from the late ’70s. She became the first and the last Tchaikovsky laureate of the Moscow-based international piano competition.
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