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Ballet Manila, Steps Dance Studio team up for 'The Nutcracker'

By Kristofer Purnell | July 16, 2026 - 3:29pm

Two of the country's largest dance companies will join forces to stage the beloved ballet for Christmas. 

Arts and Culture

A lyrical production for Tchaikovsky’s ‘Onegin’

By Joseph Cortes | October 30, 2006 - 12:00am

Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is an anomaly in the world of opera. Composed of lyric scenes in three acts, it has little of the passion and bombast of verismo, none of the vocal calisthenics of bel canto,...

Arts and Culture

A big turnout for BM, PPO Tchaikovsky evening

By Joseph Cortes | April 5, 2004 - 12:00am

It is rare that ballet and orchestra come together on stage in the Philippines. The cost of maintaining a theater staffed with both orchestral and ballet ensembles is daunting in a country where the performing arts...

Arts and Culture