VERA Files
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 […]
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.
For his only appearance on a Philippine stage this year, tenor Arthur Espiritu, much in demand in European opera houses, is doing love duets with three sopranos on July 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Spotlight Power Mac in Circuit Makati.