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
By PABLO A. TARIMAN WHO would brave a maddening Friday night traffic and a torrential rain to listen to a Schubert song cycle based on 20 stanzas of Wilhelm Müller’s poems about a young man’s journey into doomed love? Just two hours before the August 26 concert at the Ayala Museum, ominous dark clouds
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA IN the world of classical music singing, talent isn’t enough. The voice must be cared for like the instrument of God that it is. This is where vocal workshops come in. In Makati this weekend, the Intensive Vocal Workshop with Arthur Espritu runs from Jan. 15 to 17 at the Black Box
By PABLO A. TARIMAN ROSSINI’S La Cenerentola made its Philippine debut Saturday night (August 15, 2015) at the Meralco Theater with a cheering crowd who loved opera’s retelling of Cinderella with another twist: no overbearing stepmother, no missing golden slippers. Instead we are treated to a tale of the bracelet which ultimately sealed the
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA THE Mostly Mozart 2014 Festival comes while the music world mourns the recent death of Maestro Oscar Yatco who did much to raise the country’s musical standards. Pianist Cristine Coyiuto, who will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488 and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphonywith the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) which
By PABLO A. TARIMAN Photos from the Facebook of ARTHUR ESPIRITU AT 5 degrees Celsius, Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu sang the role of the love-sick Ernesto in a well-received production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Oper Leipzig, the third oldest opera house in Germany. Espiritu, the first Filipino tenor to sing at La
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA IT is anything but petite. But that is how Petite Messe Solennelle by Gioachino Rossini, pillar of the bel canto opera era and composer of the opera The Barber of Seville, is officially described. The mass, the Christmas offering on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Ayala Museum on Makati
