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• 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.
• Sandugong Panaginip - first Filipino opera bt Pedro Paterno and first presented in Zorilla Theater.
• Dr. Ramon Javier - the first Filipino opera impresario.
• La Loba Negra- (The Black She Wolf) based on the legend attributed to Fr. Jose Burgos, one of the three martyred priest, Gomez, Burgos and Zamora.
• Donya Luisa (La Loba Negra) - commences her revenge during the elaborate ceremonies of Palm Sunday. She kills over 200 priest in a span of two years.
• Wife of Governor-General Fernando Bustamante Governor-General Fernando Bustamante - a brave soldier from Mexico who came to Philippines to help the Filipinos to experience freedom. Husband of Donya Luisa and being assassinated by the Spaniards.
• La Loba Negra (The Black She Wolf) is a thress-act

  Filipino opera. The music was composed by National Artist Francisco Feliciano, with libretto by soprano Fides Cuyugan Asensio. The premiere was held in 1984 with National Artist for theater and Fil Lamberto avellana as director.
• Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) - composed by National Artist Felipe Padilla de Leon.

  • it is the first attempt of Jose Rizal to express the Filipino side of the people.
• El Filibusterismo (The Filibusterismo) - a novel by Doctor Jose Rizal, written as a sequel to the earlier Noli Me Tangere.

  • it is the continuing fight for the freedom from colonial rule. Also it tells the continuing struggle of the Filipino people to achieve freedom from the Spanish rule.
• Ballet dance is known as to interpret stories of all kind.

  It does so by allowing the characters to come live, not in spoken dialogue, but in body movements or pantomime.
• Ang Kapatid ng Tatlong Marya


  • Fantasy story set to neo-ethnic music in a contemporary style
  • About the hero's fantastic journey to different kingdoms in pursuit of his bewitched sisters
• Ang Mahiwagang Byulin


  • Local version of the Pied Piper tale
  • Main character mesmerizes his followers through the music of his Violin
• Ang Prensipe ng Mga Ibon


  • Love story where a princess falls in love with a bird
• Rama Hari


  • Philippine adaptation of Indian epic Ramayana
  • Set to music, dance, and drama
• MUSICAL PLAY

  • is a popular and generally lighter form of musical drama than the opera. The acting is less intense and dramatic, and the choreography and dance sequence provide entertaining breaks in the unfolding plots. Broadway and West End Musicals broadway musicals are popular entertainment with themes and texts which are generally light and easy to understand.
• Miss Saigon - it is a musical by Claude-Michel Shonberg and Alain Boublil. It tells the tragic tale of doomed romance involving as Asian woman who is abandoned by her Caucasian lover.
• The Phantom of the Opera - is a Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. The story focused on a beautiful singer Cristine Daae as she is seduce by a mysterious difigured musical genius known as "the phantom of the opera". He demands that Cristine be the star of the Theaters production. When the young singer rejects the Phantom's advances and her lover Raoul intervenes, the Phantom sets ni limits in his pursuit of revenge and of Cristine's love.
• Les Miserables - a musical composed by French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg with libretto by Alain Boublil, based on the novel Les Mesirables by Victor Hugo.
• "Ang dakilang anak paws" depicting the life of revolutionary hero Andres Bonifacio. It was co-produced by the Cultural Center of the Philippines with Jerry Dadap as composer conductor and the late Elmo Makil as Bonifacio
• Atang - "Dulang may musika" is a musical based on the life of the first superstar of the Philippines, Atang de la Rama
• Katy! The musical - it is about the life of bodabil (vaudeville) star Katy de la Cruz or Catalina de la Cruz
• Daragang Magayon - is a production for poetry and mixed media for male and female narrators, female voice, two percussionists, two pianist, and two dancers
• Noli Me Tangere - the musical play, close yet follows the storyline of the original novel and the opera
• El Filibusterismo - the team was composed by Ryan Cayabyab for music, Jovy Miroy the libretto, Edna Vida for the choreography, National artist Salvador Bernal for the set and costume design, and Nonon Padilla for stage direction
• Magsimula Ka - is the story of young dreamers whose ambitions begin to fade amidst life's realities
• Florante at Laura - music and musical arrangements were doneby Nonong Buencamino, based on the book and lyrics of Tony Perez, directed by Nonon Padilla
• • Les Mis tells the story of paroled convict Jean Valiean who, failing attempts to find work as an honest man, breaks his chains and conceals hid identity in order to live his life again.