MAPEH 4th Quarter

• Opera


  A staged play or dramatic work whose text or libretto is entirely sung by the characters
• Opera


  • Combines drama, poetry, dance, and music
  • Themes include love, historic events, tragedies, love stories, legends, myths, revenge, forbidden love, power, and war
• Libretto


  The script of an opera
• Recitative


  A rhythmically vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech
• Vocal classifications for female opera singers

  • Soprano (coloratura, lyric, dramatic)
  • Mezzo-soprano
  • Alto
• Vocal classifications for male opera singers

  • Tenor
  • Baritone
  • Bass
• Aria


  A song in an opera, usually by a lead role
• Ballet


  A form of theatrical entertainment in which dancers express mood, thoughts, and feelings through their body movement that tell a story
• Ballet


  • Combination of dance, music, and theater
  • En pointe technique - dancing on the tips of the toes to create an illusion of weightlessness
• Filipino ballet musicals


  • Rama Hari
  • Lola Basyang
• Musical play


  A theater form that incorporates music, songs, dialogue, and dance into one stage spectacle
• Filipino musical plays


  • Walang Sugat
  • Dalagang Bukid
  • Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas
  • Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis
  • Magsimula Ka
• The Philippines is known as one of the centers of musical plays on this side of the world
• Filipinos have adopted and acculturated the zarzuela theater form from Spain
• Honorata "Atang" dela Rama-Hernandez was a National Artist for Music and Theater and was known as the Queen of Kundiman