VERA Files
Tenor Arthur Espiritu continued his winning streak by getting his third standing ovation in Science City of Muñoz in Nueva Ecija Monday afternoon (Feb. 13) at the CED Teachers Hall of the Central Luzon State University.
Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas has conferred honorary citizenship to writer-journalist, poet, and impresario Pablo Arcilla Tariman, a Bicolano, in recognition of his artistic excellence and contribution to Iloilo’s arts and culture. The conferment came right after the farewell concert of Tariman at the University of the Philippines Visayas in Iloilo City feauring tenor […]
The inauguration of the CCP Black Box Theater Thursday night (Sept. 8) became doubly memorable with the ecstatic bravos and thunderous applause resounding at the new theater after tenor Arthur Espiritu’s rendition of Una furtiva lagrima from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.
Prize-winning clarinetist Andrew Constantino is all set for one of his first live concerts this time with internationally acclaimed tenor Arthur Espiritu at the Manila Pianos on Monday, 6 p.m. October 17, 2022.
The last three months were constant, if, extreme, challenges for the country’s foremost tenor.
The year 2020 is many things to cultural watchers.
Are opera productions going back to normal? After six months of lockdown in Manila, tenor Arthur Espiritu gets back to the opera stage with a role debut in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliet at the Magdeburg Opera House in Germany.
Friday night amidst scare of the corona virus, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor — first performed in 1835 in Naples, Italy — had a triumphant return at the Cultural Center of the Philippines where it was last seen in Pilipino version in 1976.
While opera remains a rarity in Metro Manila (except for some concerts offering token arias and some once-a-year opera production), tenor Arthur Espiritu is leading an opera life that the Filipino opera lover can only dream of.
Last Saturday night was pretty much like the state of the nation when no one was looking.