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• Opera – an art of dramatic stage performance that incorporates theatrical elements consisting of dramatic text or “Libretto”

  • made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes
  • started during the middle ages and appeared in the 16th century in ITALY
• Serious Opera – neopolitan opera, story revolves around heroes and myths
• Opera Semiseria – serious story but has a happy ending

  • Combination of comic and serious
• Comic Opera – light opera that tackles not so delicate subject matter where the ending often has a happy resolution
• Opera Cornique – French opera wherein instead of singing, the lines are spoken
• Grand Opera – it emerged in Paris during the 19th century and with a larger scale from flamboyant costumes to the choruses and it includes ballet
• Opera Verisimo (Realism) – characters are based on everyday people that you may have meet in real life

  • Plot is more on melodramatic
• TYPES OF OPERA:

  COMIC OPERA

  SERIOUS OPERA

  OPERA SEMISERIA

  OPERA CORNIQUE

  GRAND OPERA

  OPERA VERISIMO
• ELEMENTS OF OPERA:

  Recitative – imitating patter and rhythm of speech

   

  Aria – characters expresses feelings through a flowing melody

   

  Bel Canto – beautiful singing

   

  Castrato – Baroque period, deepening of the male voice
• Philippine Opera – started during the 19th century when instrumental virtuosis, opera singers, and Spanish zarzuela performers came

  • The element of tragedy, emanating from the popular themes of romance, deceit, murder, vendetta, and other elements of human frailty, became a favorite story pattern of the Filipino opera
• Opera houses:

  ·         Manila Grand Opera Houses

  ·         Zorrila Theater

  ·         Metropolitan Theater

  ·         Cultural Center of the Philippines
• Fides Cuyugan Asensio (Librettist and Soprano)
• “Noli Me Tangere” (Touch-Me-Not) – Spaniards friars and the government

  Music composed by Felipe Padilla De Leon (NA for music)

  • Libretto by Guillermo Tolentino (NA for sculpture)
  • Premiered in FEU auditorium in 1957
  • Directed by Morli Daram
  • 1987 it was revived (CCP)
  • 2012 Harris Theater in Chicago
  • 2013 in New York
  • 2014 Resorts World Theater
• “La Loba Negra” (The Black She-Wolf) – based on the tragic assassination of the Spanish government of the Philippines

  • Act I and II (history) Act III (attributed to Fr. Jose Burgos)
  • Music by Prof. Francisco Feliciano (NA for music)
  • Libretto by Prof. Fides Cuyugan-Asensio
  • Directed by Lamberto Avellana
  • Premiered in CCP Main Theater in 1984
• Ballet – theatrical art with a formal technique called “danse d’ cole”

  • Performed together with other elements of arts such as costume, music, elaborate stage design or scenery to cover a storyline or theme
  • It’s origin can be traced in 15th century Italian Renaissance and was developed as a form of court entertainment
• TYPES OF BALLET:

  CLASSICAL

  ROMATIC

  NEOCLASSICAL

  Contemporary

  The Vaganova Method

  The Cecchetti Method

  The Bournonville Method
• (HINDI INCLUDED BASIC STEPS NG BALLET)
• Ana Palvova (1899-1931) – Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries

  • Attributed with much of the development of modern ballet including the modern pointe shoe
  • Genius of her age and well-known worldwide
• • In 1927, Luva Adameit came to the Philippines and started a ballet school. She trained the first few ballet dancers in the county. The institution that eventually became Ballet Philippines was first conceived in 1969, with the opening of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
• Philippine Ballet themes:

  a.Traditional Beliefs

  b. Folktales

  c. Fables

  d. Superstitions
• Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde – prima ballerina of the Philippines

  • In 1984, she became the first foreign soloist to ever join in the Kirov Ballet
  • She is the Artistic Director and CEO of Ballet Manila and was Vice-Chairman of the Philippine Unesco National Commission
• Theater – a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, typically actors and actresses
• Opera – dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists
• Broadway – a street in New York City where there are many theaters
• Musical Play – a form of theatrical presentation
• Musical Play – a form of theatrical presentation

  Combination of:

  ·         A. Songs

  ·         B. Spoken Dialogue

  ·         C. Acting

  ·         D. Dancing

   

  • Lighter form of musical drama than the opera
  • Themes are more contemporary
  • Acting is less intense
  • Choreography and dance are used during breaks
• Libretto – music and lyrics of sung dialogue including the musical arrangement; spoken
• Performance – gestures, body language, and facial expressions of actors and choreography of dance
• Set Design – constructed sets, props, costume, makeup of actors
• Lightning Design – choosing the appropriate direction, color, and quality of light
• ELEMENTS OF A MUSICAL:

  LIBRETTO

  PERFORMANCE

  SET DESIGN

  LIGHTNING DESIGN

  SOUND DESIGN

  DIRECTING
• Sound Design – designing the sound environment of the musical
• Directing – putting it all together in the scene, blocking human and non-animate figures in the stage
• KEY ORGANIZERS OF A MUSICAL:

  CHOREOGRAPHER, COSTUMIME DESIGNER, DIRECTOR, LIGHTNING DESIGNER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR, SET DISGNER
• MUSICAL PLAYS IN THE PHILIPPINES

  • More recent development than on broadway and the west end
  • Relying mostly on adaptation of novels, literary works, or biographical sketches of famous artists
• Honorata De La Rama-Hernandez (1902-1991) – known as “Atang De La Rama”

  • Born in Tondo, Manila on January 11, 1902
  • Died on July 11, 1991
  • Bodabil (vaudeville) singer

  “Queen of the kundiman and zarzuela” 1979

  • National artist for theater and music, 1987
  • Married to Amado V. Hernandez (NA for literature)
• Catalina De La Cruz (1907-2004) – born in Bustos, Bulacan on February 13, 1907

  • Died November 10, 2004
  • Known as “Queen of Filipino Jazz” and “Queen of Bodabil”
  • Highest paid Filipino entertainer during her time
  • Retiring in the 1900’s and died at the age of 97
• Made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes – OPERA
• Light opera that tackles not so delicate subject matter where the ending often has a happy resolution – COMIC OPERA
• It emerged in Paris during the 19th century and with larger scale from flamboyant costumes to the choruses and it includes ballet – GRAND OPERA