Fil-American singing actor Yna Tresvalles is only 23 but she is playing the role of Anne Boleyn who was married to King Henry VIII at age 31 on January 25, 1533. She was later beheaded for high treason on May 19, 1536.
Baguio City’s music lovers savored rare vocal treats during the weekend with two back-to-back concerts featuring the magic of cinema through their music and a balanced program of opera and Neapolitan favorites.
After a successful season opening concert of the Philippine Philharmonic under Maestro Grzegorz Nowak, the national orchestra goes breezy and light in an evening of film music with Gerard Salonga on November 22, 2024, 7:30 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts.
One could safely conclude the PPO has risen to high expectations with Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, which elicited a screaming standing ovation.
There is sudden interest on Puccini after the 2022 staging of Turandot courtesy of the CCP, the Filipino Opera Society and the PPO Society, Inc.
Shlomo Mintz, a winner of several international competitions who will be the soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic in the Bruch violin concerto on Friday, Sept. 27, said competitions are not a perfect way to determine the future of a young talent.
The musical life of Nena del Rosario Villanueva will be recalled in a special concert at the Manila Pianos on September 22, 2 p.m. with special lecture on her life and works by Dr. Alegria Ferrer.
Julie Lluch is one of those who will be given special tribute by the CCP in the awards night on September 20, 7 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts in Circuit Makati.
Lea Salonga leads the list of Gawad CCP awardees to be given special tribute in the awards night on Sept. 20, 2024, 7 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts in Circuit Makati.
Bruckner’s 9th Symphony soared as it did in three movements, its message not lost on Hong Kong audiences. It once more re-asserted Filipino-Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski as the youngest and most phenomenal music director of the HK Philharmonic.
