The morning after her SRO and acclaimed concert “Passione” at the Ayala Museum, soprano Nelly Miricioiu put on her no-nonsense pedagogue’s hat and assured her 14 masterclass students that she’s “probably one of the most generous singers to other singers.”
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!”
Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA THE historic First Intensive Vocal Workshop of soprano Nelly Miricioiu ran for three days (March 9-11), seven hours long each day, with brief lunch and coffee breaks in between, at the Ayala Museum. It has more than prepared the 14 participants for international opera stages. It has also strengthened
By JOSEPH CORTES Photos by KIKO CABUENA and ANNA LEAH SARABIA Experienced concertgoers have observed that the acoustics of Meralco Theater is not favorable for concerts of classical music. It has something to do with the way the theater was designed. Rather than the box-shape you would find in most theaters, such as the
Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA SOPRANO Nelly Miricioiu, whose roots are in Romania, has been called many things, including “a traitor to her country” when she defected to Western Europe. She experienced being snubbed and ignored by her countrymen despite the accolades heaped on her when she conquered Covent Garden in the United
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA Photos courtesy of JOSEPH UY To listen to Nelly Miricioiu, the soprano from Romania who is now a British citizen, is to fall in love with her. Fall hard for her. She will have a one-night concert, “Nelly Miricioiu Live in Manila,” on March 6 at 8 p.m. at Meralco
