Music Q4

• Opera is an art and musical form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called libretto) and a musical score, usually in an elaborate theatrical

  setting.
• Teatro Zorrilla 1817-1893, Principe Alfonso 1862-1876, Variedades Theater 1847, Quiapo Theater 1941, Manila Grand Opera House mid19th, and Metropolitan Theater 1931 are Local Theaters.
• "Sandugong Panaginip" by Pedro Paterno is the first Filipino opera presented at the Zorrilla Theater in 1902.
• "The Dreamed Alliance" by M. W. Loving was translated from the first filipino opera "Sandugong Panaginip" by Pedro Paterno.
• Bonifacio Abdon is the first Filipino Opera Conductor.
• Dr. Ramon Javier is the first Filipino Opera Impresario.
• "Lakangbini" by Patricio Mariano was staged at Metropolitan Theater on December 19, 1933.
• The Operatic divas are Nelia Manalo, Mercedes Matias, and Jovita Fuentes.
• Nelia Manalo portrayed the leading role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata.
• Mercedes Matias-Santiago portrayed as Lucia in Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lamermoor".
• National Artist Jovita Fuentes portrayed Mimi as Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme".
• "La Loba Negra" (The Black She-Wolf) is a three-act Filipino opera. The music was composed by National Artist Francisco Feliciano, with libretto by soprano Fides Cuyugan Asensio.
• "La Lobra Negra" was presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in cooperation with the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music at the CCP Main Theater from August 16 to 25, 1984 with Lamberto Avellana as director.
• Cultural Center of the Philippines was established because of Imelda Romualdez-Marcos paving the way for operas in the Philippines.
• "Noli Me Tangere" is a three-act opera composed by National Artist Felipe Padilla de Leon.
• "Noli Me Tangere" premiered in 1957 at the Far Eastern University Auditorium.
• "Noli Me Tangere" (Touch Me Not) originated from the Latin Verse John 20:17.
• Noli Me Tangere was banned in the Philippines by the Spanish ledding to Rizal's exile, imprisonment, and eventually execution.
• "El Filibusterismo" is a three-act opera composed by National Artist Felipe Padilla de Leon in 1970.
• "El Filibusterismo" was staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
• El Filibusterismo is a sequel of Noli Me Tangere.
• El Filibusterismo was the source of inspiration for Filipino revolutionaries including Andres Bonifacio.
• Musical Play is a popular and generally lighter form of musical drama than the opera.
• Musical Play themes are usually more contemporary, and the musical melodies are more manageable by the average singer.
• Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis is a five-act work commissioned by Alfonso Puyat in 1979.
• Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis was staged again at the CCP Main Theater on August 20 and 21, 1994 with Jerry Dadap as composer-conductor and the late Elmo Makil as Bonifacio.
• Bonifacio joined Jose Rizal's reformist organization La Liga

  Filipina in 1892.
• Bonifacio founded a organization called Katipunan. Its complete name

  was Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng Mga Anak ng

  Bayan and had the initials KKK. The new organization consists of people

  from lower to middle-income groups.
• Bonifacio became the President or Presidente Supremo of the Katipunan

  in 1895.
• Atang Dulang May Musika is a musical based on the first superstar of the Philippines Atang dela Rama written by Floy Quietos.