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IL TROVATORE

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Yes, Virginia, opera is alive and well in the Philippines

By Joseph Cortes | September 19, 2005 - 12:00am

Who says opera is dead in the Philippines? The Philippine Opera Company’s recent gala, Opera Now, disproved this in a production that gathered 30 of the country’s established and promising singers on one...

Arts and Culture

A Chronicler’s Choices

By Rosalinda Orosa | January 6, 2002 - 12:00am

Meldy Ongsiako Cojuangco, music and art patron and head of the Opera Guild of the Philippines, was one of the main sponsors who made the Il Trovatore presentation at the CCP possible. With her is Fil-Spanish piano...

Starweek Magazine

Our Young Prince for a Day

By Maurice Arcache | November 1, 2001 - 12:00am

Cutie pie Santi Luis Ablaza’s Japanese Sumo Wrestling birthday party, dahlings, was a truly fun unforgettable afternoon affair. The baby’s first birthday bash was attended by tons of children, nannies...

Fashion and Beauty

Singaporean Soiree

By Rosalinda Orosa | October 7, 2001 - 12:00am

Never had Singaporean Ambassador Jacky Foo and his petite wife Dr. Su Yumian been in a more expansive mood than at the soiree they were hosting. After all, they and their guests would be listening to the leads of...

Starweek Magazine

The twisted ‘Trovatore’

By Jess Q. Cruz | September 24, 2001 - 12:00am

Fitzcarraldo is a name that one is not likely to forget. The man who carried that name inspired the motion picture by Werner Herzog which was the entry of Germany to the Manila International Film Festival in the...

Arts and Culture

Taking Singapore by storm

By Alfred A. Yuson | September 10, 2001 - 12:00am

Preparing to board our flight back home at Singapore’s Changi airport, we tailed a couple of other "performing" contingents: the cast of Il Trovatore that included a full chorus of expatriate Filipinos,...

Arts and Culture

Will Verdi’s ‘Il Trovatore’ spark a

By Joseph Cortes | September 10, 2001 - 12:00am

Opera Guild Foundation of the Philippines chairman and executive producer Imelda Cojuangco likens it to a telenovela. "But with a difference," Cojuangco emphasizes. The difference in this blood-and-gore...

Arts and Culture

Bocelli sings Verdi - SOUNDS FAMILIAR by Baby Gil

November 27, 2000 - 12:00am

Andrea Bocelli is now fondly referred to as "the fourth tenor." This means that in the hierarchy of popular opera singers, he comes after the hugely successful trio of Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano...

Entertainment

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