Archive - Arts & Culture

Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu debuts as the Roman consul Pollione in the opera Norma by Bellini at Oper Klosterneuburg in Austria July 6 to August 4, 2024.

Imelda Cajipe-Endaya’s inaugural exhibit Rigodon presents her early abstract prints at Silverlens Galleries until May 25, 2024.

The first week of the humid and infernal month of May yielded outstanding performances and great soloists involving two orchestral ensembles and an all-Bach cello recital.

What is beautiful? An eternal question and human beings have made themselves beautiful in their own eyes, across space and time.

Cellist Damodar das Castillo has a tough act to follow when he interprets the Dvorak cello concerto May 4 with the Manila Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Finnish conductor Sasha Makila.

What do Klaus Makela, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Tarmo Peltokoski and Sasha Makila have in common?They are all distinguished conductors from Finland and enjoying world-wide high esteem from both audiences and critics.

The most curious thing in the music world is the student-teacher relationship.

When cellist Renato Lucas returns at the Manila Pianos May 5 for another round of Bach suites and a sonata, he will most likely bring with him years of experience as a cellist.

For Daniel Coquilla, the streets of Metro Manila with a population of 13 million plus, offer a vibrant space to document visually what’s going on, what’s in, and what’s out.

Amidst drought and extreme heat scorching the country, CANVAS unveils the first “If Trees Could Talk” International Art Biennale in the green fields of Ibaan, Batangas until 24 June 2024.

Vida Doria concentrated on flora, a reaction to her childhood and youth spent in coastal Pangasinan “where there were no flowers, except violet water lilies we would see on the fishponds or at wakes

Raffy T. Napay has been stitching threads in a variety of colors and patterns for over a decade now. He used to work in oil paints but a serious allergy led him to switch to thread and scrap cloth, materials plentiful around him. Later in 2010, when working on a piece for an art competition, he asked his mother, a seamstress, to teach him how to sew.

Even as the good reviews are pouring in from both audience and cultural cognoscenti, National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario did a unique tribute to Cecile Licad with a poem after the pianist’s landmark performance at the Manila Metropolitan Theater March 19.

Painter Jose Ramon “Joven” Ignacio is a naturalist to the core. He doesn’t need to go birding in far-flung places or deep in the forests to observe flora at their wildest and best to capture his subjects. But into nature and art he has always been.

A whirlwind of color, color, and more color hits you in Pacita Abad’s Love is Like a Heatwave, a recent exhibition at Silverlens Galleries, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Circles in My Mind (Oct. 2003-Jan. 2004, CCP), Abad’s final exhibition before her death in December 2004.

If you have ever visited Iloilo City, you would have surely brought back some biscocho, kinihad, or even pinasugbo, dried saba slices coated in caramelized sugar, and wrapped in a white paper cone.

Cecile Licad makes her second appearance at the Manila Metropolitan Theater on Tuesday, March 19, 7 p.m. with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Grzegorz Nowak

The series is gender-inclusive, with the men's stories woven into the tapestry of suffering and healing.