Mapeh Music

• Opera


  An art and music form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text called libretto and a musical score, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, with dialogue entirely sung and not spoken
• Local theaters in the Philippines that hosted early Philippine operas

  • Zorilla Theater
  • Principe Alfonso Theater
  • Variedades Theater
  • Kiapo Theater
  • Tondo Theater
  • Manila Grand Opera House
  • Metropolitan Theater
• Sandugong Panagini


  The first Filipino opera, composed by Ladislao Bonus and with libretto by Pedro Paterno, first presented at the Zorilla Theater in 1902
• Bonifacio Abdon was the first Filipino opera conductor
• Dr. Ramon Javier was the first Filipino impresario who promoted local talents to participate in foreign productions
• Patricio Mariano wrote the opera Lakangbini, first staged at the Metropolitan Theater
• Famous Filipino opera singers

  • Nelia Manalo as Violetta
  • Jovita Fuentes as Mimi
• The Cultural Center of the Philippines, established in 1969, paved the way for other Filipino operas to be staged at a legitimate venue of international standard
• Famous Filipino operas


  • La Loba Negra (The Black She-Wolf)
  • Noli Me Tangere
  • El Filibusterismo
• Ballet in the Philippines

  Presents folktales based on local fables and epics from neighboring regions
• Filipino ballets


  • Lola Basyang
  • Rama Hari
• Musical play in the Philippines

  A lighter form than opera, with themes usually contemporary, acting less intense and dramatic, often adapted from novels, literary works, or biographical sketches of famous artists
• Musical plays in the Philippines

  • Andres Bonifacio ang dahilang anak-pawis
  • Atang - dulang may musikal
  • Katy
  • Florente at Laura
  • Daragang Magayon
  • Magsimula ka
• The musical play Showboat was the first Broadway musical to feature the popular mood of transport in the American frontier
• Lisa Majuca Elizalde - known as prima ballerina
• M.W. loving translated the sandugong panaginip
• The dream alliance - sandugong panaginip english
• Patricio Mariano - wrote the "Lakangbini"
• Sandugong panaginip composed by Ladislao Bonus known as the Father of Filipino opera said to be the first filipino opera by Pedro Paterno
• Bonidacio Abdon was the first filipino opera conductor
• Dr. Ramon Javier was the first impresario who promote the local talents to participate in foreign production