“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.
Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu has sung six operas during the year from Sydney Opera House to Germany and ending in the Israel Performing Arts Center in Tel Aviv where he wrapped up a total of six performances of La Boheme in the lead role of the starving poet Rodolfo.
After his well-received Rodolfo in La Boheme at the Sydney Opera, Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu debuts in a rarely performed Polish opera as the Shepherd in Karol Szymanowski's “King Roger.”
Some 36 years after her debut at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Romanian diva Nelly Miricioiu made her fifth engagement in the country with leading Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu and created a storm of applause that made the concert one of the year’s most talked about opera tandem.
Flying in from nearby Hongkong Friday where she held master classes, soprano Nelly Miricioiu arrived with the widest smile on seeing her Filipino friends and fans there to meet her. Her hug was long, tight, lingering, accompanied by a British endearment, “My poppet!”
Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu logged another well-received international debut when an Australian critic gave him a highly positive notice in his debut as Rodolfo (La Boheme) at the Sydney Opera House.
The central figure of the Music Artes’ Opera Gala at the newly built Maybank Performing Arts Center at the Global City January 15 was no doubt tenor Arthur Espiritu who generously coached the young artists and even agreed to sing duets with them.
“We can sustain it. But it would take a village.”
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA Artists photos by JOJIT LORENZO “WE can sustain it. But it would take a village.” This was international tenor Arthur Espiritu’s response to the idea of an opera company that would accommodate the boom in young, classically trained vocal artists in this country. “We can sustain it. But it would take
By Pablo A. Tariman There is a virtual feast of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Cultural Center of the Philippines as the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura mounts one version on Friday, October 14, 2016 and another performance the following day, October 15, 2016 this time with the ABS CBN Philharmonic
