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Philippine Opera

3. art and music form in which singers
and musicians perform a dramatic
work combining text (called a
libretto) and a musical score, usually
in an elaborate theatrical setting
(opera house)
Dialogue is entirely sung and not
spoken.
What is an Opera?

4.  Started in the Philippines during the 19th
Century when Instrumental virtuosos,
opera singers, and Spanish zarzuela
performers came.
 The element of tragedy, emanating from the
popular themes of romance, deceit, murder,
vendetta, and other elements of human
frailty, became a favorite story pattern of
the Filipino opera.
Philippine Opera

5. Zorilla
Principe Alfonso
Variedades
Quiapo Theater
Tondo Theater
Manila Grand Opera House
Metropolitan Theater
Philippine Opera Theatres

6. First Filipino opera
By Pedro Paterno
First performed in the Zorilla
Theater on August 2, 1902.
later translated by the Englishman
M.W. Loving with the title “ The
Dreamed Alliance”
Sandugong Panaginip

7. staged at the Metropolitan
Theater on December 19,
1933.
Lakangbini by Patricio
Mariano

8.  Bonifacio Abdon – composer and first Filipino
conductor
 Dr. Ramon Javier – first Filipino opera impresario
 Orchestra Molina - known for their interpretation
of operatic works as well as other classical
compositions
 First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos - established
the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1969
which paved the way for other Filipino operas to be
staged at a legitimate venue of international
standard.
Prominent Figures in
Philippine Opera

9.  Nelia Manalo - portrayed the leading role
of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata.
 Mercedes Matias-Santiago - portrayed the
role as Lucia in Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia
di Lamermoor.
 Jovita Fuentes - portrayed the role as Mimi
in Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme and
eventually became one of our National
Artists .
Operatic Divas

10.  is a three - act Filipino opera. Acts I and II
are based on history. Act III is based on a
legend attributed to Fr. Jose Burgos.
 The music was composed by National Artist
FranciscoFeliciano, with libretto by soprano
Fides Cuyugan Asensio .
 The premiere was held in 1984 followed by
another presentation in 1985.
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11.  A three-act opera composed by Felipe De
Leon with libretto by Guillermo Tolentino
 The title was said to have originated from the
Latin version of the words from the Bible
verse John 20: 17.
 It was written to expose the ills of the
Spanish Catholic friars and the ruling
colonial government .
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12.  Also a three-act opera composed by
Felipe De Leon in 1970 with libretto in
Filipino by Anthony Morli.
 It is a novel written as a sequel to the
former novel.
 It tells the continuing struggle of the
Filipinos to achieve freedom from
Spanish rule.
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