PPO shines in UK
After a well-received 40th concert season at the Samsung Theater, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) under music director Maestro Grzegorz Nowak has embarked on a nine-city tour of the United Kingdom.
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Sara Duterte impeachment trial: first round in the 2028 presidential contest
Prominent lawyer Lorna Kapunan said last week’s election showed an enlightened electorate. The results were both an appeal and demand to current as well as aspiring political leaders for respect. It’s a notice as well to the senator-judges in the Duterte impeachment trial.
Pope Leo XIV’s migrant roots
As a pope of the contemporary world, one issue he will address will be migration, a preferential apostolate of the Catholic Church. Migrants migrate to escape conditions of poverty, religious and political persecution, and wars. Migration is never a crime. What will his papacy do to embrace the humanity of migrants and refugees? As a son of migrants and of Afro-Creole culture, Leo XIV is a groundbreaking pope.
Young talents tackle vocally challenging opera heroines
Opera-loving audiences in Metro Manila are up for a rare vocal treat when young sopranos interpret rarely sung opera heroines Saturday, May 3, 7 p.m. at Manila Pianos along Paseo de Magallanes in Makati City.
Johanna Helmuth: Lingering tales of mental glitch
Provocative and raising more questions than ever, Head Against the Wall is Johanna Helmuth’s solo exhibition at West Gallery, 48 West Avenue, Quezon City, until 10 May 2025. Featuring 10 oil paintings and a wood sculpture, it presents a transitional moment in coping with inner conflicts. How do you deal with it? Will it ever
Soothing the blistering heat with music by the Manila Symphony Orchestra
The MSO season begins with the first concert “Music for Peace” on May 24 at the Aliw Theater, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the post-Liberation MSO concerts organized between 1945 and 1946. Violin soloist Emanuel John Villarin, a Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra pioneer member, will play Dvořák’s “Symphony No. 9 — From the New World” and German composer-pianist Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 61. Villarin will be coming home from Berlin, where he’s on a scholarship, to do the show with conductor Marlon Chen, MSO’s current music director and principal conductor.
A send-off fit for the Queen of Cinema
The tribute was grand as it was solemn with La Aunor’s flag-draped coffin resting on a bed of white flowers with her National Artist medallion blending with the colors of the Philippine flag.
Superstar High
The death of Ate Guy has filled our social media feeds with exactly the history that her Noranians live off, and it is one that too many of us failed to appreciate while she was alive, more focused as we were on the controversies and issues.
BTS’ j-hope is born to be onstage
j-hope definitely has to come back — this time with his brothers — to have a blast with Filo-ARMYs again and introduce them to his new favorite Filipino food! J-hope was obsessed with halo-halo and absolutely loved Filipino restaurant Manam’s spread: garlic rice, sisig (“My favorite!” he declared), crispy pata, and his charming take on sinigang na baboy sa sampaloc — “singnigang na baboy sa sampolic.”
Phyllis Zaballero: Memories in abstract form
It is the artist’s 44th solo exhibition and her first one at the National Museum of the Philippines titled Phyllis Zaballero: Landscapes of the Mind at Gallery XV1I, 3/F National Museum of Fine Arts.
