MAPEH 10 SEMI FINALS OPERA

• Opera

  A drama set to music with vocal pieces and orchestral accompaniment with elaborate stage
• Opera

  • A collaboration between the composer and the dramatist
  • The dialogue is always sung and never spoken
  • Opera characters are revealed through songs
  • Elements in an opera includes music, costumes, scenery, poetry, and acting
  • Some operas incorporate dance performances
• Libretto

  Text of an opera
• Librettist

  Writer (or dramatist) of the libretto
• Composer


  Sets the text to the appropriate music
• Brief History of Opera

  • It started in Italy more than 400 years ago at the end of the 16th century and soon spread throughout the rest of Europe
  • Platform for storytelling and social commentary
• Philippine Opera


  • Started during the middle part of the 19th century
  • First introduced in the Philippines in 1878 through the Zarzuela
• Zarzuela

  Spanish art and music form that involves spoken and sung words
• Commonly used patterns in an opera


  • Element of tragedy
  • Romance
  • Deceit
  • Murder
  • Vendetta
  • Human frailty
• Bonifacio Abdon


  • First Filipino opera conductor
  • Composer, conductor, violinist
• Dr. Ramon Javier


  • First Filipino "impresario" who promoted local talent to participate in foreign productions
• Impresario


  Organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role in stage arts that is similar to that of a film or television producer
• Imelda Marcos


  • Established the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 1969
• Cultural Center of the Philippines


  • Paved the way for other operas to be staged at a legitimate venue of International Standard
  • Has been producing and presenting music, dance, theater, visual arts, literary, cinematic and design events form the Philippines and all over the world for more than 40 years
• La Loba Negra


  • Also known as "The Black She-Wolf"
  • A three-act Filipino Opera
  • Acts I and Il are based on history
  • Act Ill is based on a legend attributed to Fr. Burgos, one of the three martyred priests
• La Loba Negra Music

  Composed by Francisco Feliciano (National Artist)
• Libretto


  By Soprano Fides
• Premier presented at CCP in cooperation with the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music at the CCP Main Theater


  August 16-25, 1984
• Director


  Lamberto Avellana
• La Loba Negra revolves around the tragic assassination of Spanish Governor-General Fernando Bustamante, whose administration was greatly admired for its planned reforms in the colonial administration
• As massive corruption and abuse by the Spanish friars were prevalent, the entry of Governor-General Bustamante to institute reforms did not sit well with the powerful priests. Thus Leading to his ultimately death
• Noli Me Tangere: The Opera

  A three-act opera
• Noli Me Tangere: The Opera


  • Composed by National Artist Felipe de Leon
  • Libretto by National Artist Guillermo Tolentino
  • Re-staged at CCP Main Theater from September 18-20 1987 in connection with the Music Theatre Foundation of the Philippines
• Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)


  The title of Rizal's Novel
• The title of Rizal's Novel Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) is said to have originated from the Latin Version of the words from the Bible Verse John 20:17
• Noli Me Tangere


  Tells the continuing struggle of the Filipino people to achieve freedom from Spanish Rule
• The novel was completed


  1886
• The novel was written to expose the ills of the Spanish Catholic friars and the ruling colonia government
• The book was banned in the Philippines by the Spanish authorities for its supposedly subversive elements
• This led to Rizal's Exile, imprisonment and eventual execution
• El Filibusterismo


  Three-act opera composed by National Artist Felipe de Leon in 1970, with libretto in Filipino by Anthony Mori
• Staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines
• El Filibusterismo


  Also known as The Filibuster, a novel by Dr. Jose Rizol, written as a sequel to the earlier Noli Me Tangere
• El Filibusterismo tells the continuing struggle of the Filipino people to achieve freedom from Spanish Rule
• El Filibusterismo reflects the prevailing state of the Philippine colonial government and society that had become corrupt and immoral
• As a result, a revolution was seen as the only hope for change
• Sarswela

  A traditional form of musical theater that emerged during the Spanish colonial period and remains popular in Filipino culture
• Sarswela

  • Combines dialogue, music, and dance to tell its stories
  • The music is often a mix of western and filipino influences, with catchy melodies and emotional ballads
  • Traditional filipino instruments such as the guitar, banduria, and violin are commonly used in sarswela orchestras
• Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)

  Founded in 1967 by Cecile Guidote-Alvarez
• Tanghalang Pilipino

  The resident theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, founded in 1987