Request Sa Radyo turns Samsung Theater into Theater of silence
The show was a virtual Theater of Silence reminiscent of Andrea Bocelli’s concert venue called Teatro del Silenzio in the Tuscan hills of Italy.
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Sock it to ’em, Pete Lacaba
At Friday’s Gawad CCP awards night, Jose F. Lacaba, apart from speaking truth to power, what he has done was to shake the perfumed set in the audience out of its comfortable complacency. His speech was the night’s golpe de gulat, in a manner of speaking, that for a second shushed the audience in awestruck silence before a sector broke out cheering loudly for the man.
Gawad CCP awardee Lea Salonga in Madam Tussauds museum
Lea Salonga leads the list of Gawad CCP awardees to be given special tribute in the awards night on Sept. 20, 2024, 7 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts in Circuit Makati.
FACT CHECK: AI used in FAKE ads of Lea Salonga, Sharon Cuneta selling ‘diabetes cure’
Videos of celebrities Lea Salonga and Sharon Cuneta promoting a “natural” cure for diabetes are fake and altered using AI.
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: A fad for a good cause
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS TODAY’S fad is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. ALS stands for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis described in a website on ALS as “a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal
Five media personalities honored as ‘rainbow defenders’
BY PATRICK KING PASCUAL “GAY people are no different from straight people in terms of their needs.” In making this statement celebrated advice columnist Dr. Margarita Go-Singco Holmes said she was not “purposely” advocating for gay rights. She was merely expressing her belief based on research and latest studies on homosexuality. Such statement became
The making of a pop opera quartet
BY PABLO A. TARIMAN WEDNESDAY night at the Newport Performing Arts Theater at Resort World, Manila’s music lovers heard the pop opera quartet, Il Divo, for the second time around and loving every minute of it. The group was apparently conceptualized to appeal to all races and thus the different nationalities of the members of
When music, theater and dance merge
By PABLO A. TARIMAN THEY are no doubt about it, the best in their respective artistic fiefdom. What happens when they share the stage for two nights? Metro Manila got a most-needed respite from scams and scandals when Cecile Licad, Lea Salonga and Lisa Macuja Elizalde — along with the ABS CBN Philharmonic under Gerard
Applause for 3 shining Pinays, boo for traffic nightmare
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
THE brief transcendent experience of witnessing "The Dying Swan," featuring ballerina Lisa Macuja, cellist Wilfredo Pasamba, especially flown in for this number, and pianist Cecile Licad--all three marking a historic first in the Philippines with live music played to this dance interpretation of Saint-Saens piece from Le Carnaval des Animaux--nearly redeemed Saturday's traffic nightmare.
Even legends get the jitters
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
IT may come as a surprise to some that seasoned pianist Cecile Licad, ballerina Lisa Macuja and singer Lea Salonga, who continue to light up stages here and abroad, confess to pre-concert jitters.