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Soprano Stefanie Quintin, who will be featured in a special Valentine concert with tenor Arthur Espiritu at the Ayala museum, is still basking on the positive reviews she got for her appearance in the title role in a one-act chamber opera, Mila in Hong Kong early this month.

Ballet master Adam Sage says Filipino dancers adapt very well whether they are dancing Swan Lake, Giselle or Don Quixote. “There is something about Filipino dancers that gives ballet a special quality.”

In Baguio, things happen.

"Respect" and "love" have not co-existed comfortably with the condom, but if this latex barrier against disease is promoted in the context of self-respect, love and care, more Filipinos will use it to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections.

Favorite tenor arias served as background music and when the curtains went up, you see true-to-life characters in the concert scene given their funny stage counterparts.

Her works in her second solo show, “Lutu-lutuan sa Dua,” at Café by the Ruins Dua in Baguio City, hark back to her childhood’s summer vacations when she and her siblings engaged in games of patintero, moro-moro, taguan, lutu-lutuan, bahay-bahayan and siyato.

The volcanic rumblings could be heard as far as Daraga and Ligao City making residents nervous even as dogs howled in the dead of night.

While the volcano showed signs of re-awakening weeks earlier with intermittent quakes and harmless active lava flow, Albayanos did not expect a spectacular show Monday noon.

Pianist Cecile Licad returned to the Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) Thursday night (January 18) with a predominantly New York audience giving her a rousing standing ovation.

For three years in a row already, painter-art educator-cancer survivor Yasmin Almonte has been holding solo exhibits in her birth month of January. It is her way of “expressing my gratitude for being here, being alive,” she said.

Tenor Otoniel Gonzaga, the first and the last Filipino tenor to sing Verdi’s Otello, has died in a Vienna Hospital January 14.

Whenever I tell people that I’m from Antique, the next question I usually get is “Where is that?”

“A Night of Love,” the concert of operatic solos and duets set on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. at Ayala Museum, Makati City, may be about consuming love and sometimes tragic passion. It is a prelude to Valentine as well as a mentor’s acknowledgement of the talents of his two students.

He was Julio Madiaga in the musical version of the Lino Brocka classic, Maynila Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag; he was Scrooge’s nephew in A Christmas Carol and now he plays a promising tenor in Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors mounted by Repertory Philippines.

The songs in Ang Larawan -- beautifully directed and recreated by Loi Arcenas -- are hardly hummable after you have watched it.