PHILIPPINE OPERA AND MUSICAL PLAY
means “to work”.
🞭It is a drama mainly sung and
accompanied by instruments.
🞭It includes:
🞭Opera
🞭 Varied
forms of overture
🞭 Solo songs
🞭 Arias
🞭 Duets
🞭 Choruses
🞭 Other vocal combinations
COMPONENTS OF OPERA
🞭 LIBRETTIST
🞭a
person who writes the text of an opera or
other long vocal work.
🞭 COMPOSER
🞭a
person who writes music, especially as a
professional occupation.
🞭 CONDUCTOR
🞭a
person who directs the performance of an
orchestra or choir.
🞭 DANCERS
🞭a
person who dances
🞭 SOLOIST
🞭a
singer or other musician who performs a
solo.
🞭 CHORISTER
🞭a
member of a choir, especially a child or
young person singing the treble part in a
church choir
🞭 INSTRUMENTALISTS
🞭a
player of a musical instrument.
🞭 CHOREOGRAPHER
🞭a
person who composes the sequence of
steps and moves for a performance of dance.
🞭 STAGE
🞭 an
DIRECTOR
instructor in the theatre field who
oversees and orchestrates the mounting of
a theatre production
🞭 LIGHTING
DESIGNERS
🞭 creates
a lighting design that will properly
showcase the performers and the setting,
varying the design throughout the production
to meet the action on stage
🞭 SET
DESIGNER
🞭a
person who designs all the scenery, furniture
and props the audience sees at a production of
a play .
🞭 COSTUME
🞭a
DESIGNER
costume designer is a person who designs
costumes for a film, stage production or
television. The role of the costume designer is
to create the characters' ..
PHILIPPINE OPERA 19TH & 20TH CENTURY
🞭 Jose
Rizal
🞭El
Filibusterismo
🞭Noli Me Tangere
🞭Binhi ng Kalayaan
🞭 Literature
🞭Florante
at Laura
EARLY VENUES OF OPERA:
🞭Manila
Grand Opera House
🞭Metropolitan Theater
🞭Pandacan Theater
🞭Teatro del Principe Alfonso
🞭Teatro de Tondo
🞭Teatro Zorilla
NOTABLE OPERA SINGERS
🞭NOLYN
CABAHUG
🞭IRMA POTENCIANO
🞭ARMIDA SIGUION REYNA
🞭ROCHELLE GERODIAS
🞭JUN FRANCIS JARANILLA
NOTABLE PHILIPPINE OPERAS
🞭 Sandugong
🞭 Pedro
Panaginip
Paterno, a poet, novelist and musician
🞭 1 act with 5 scenes
🞭 Translated into Tagalog by Roman Reyes
🞭 Teatro Zorilla 1902
🞭 The conflict between the people of Pasig,
Cainta and Antipolo uniting against a Muslim
invasion.
🞭 Philippine National Anthem, Spanish March
and The Star-spangled high lighted the proAmerican message of the opera.
🞭 Noli
Me Tangere
🞭Philippine opera written by experts:
Felipe Padilla de Leon (music),
Guillermo Tolentino (libretto), and Lucio
San Pedro, Lucino Sacramento and
Felipe Padilla de Leon (orchestration)
🞭3 act opera based on Jose Rizal’s 1887
novel
🞭Recognized by the “first truly Filipino
opera”
🞭 LA LOBA NEGRA
🞭Created
by Francisco Feliciano
🞭3-act Philippine opera has an
expressionist style in terms of:
🞭contrasts in pitch and
instrumentation,
🞭abrupt change in keys and
meters
🞭Instrumental timbre
🞭 San Andres
B.
🞭Filipino opera in two acts.
🞭 It described the nation’s
transformation and evolution after
the 19th century.
🞭 It did not portray the biological
sketch of Andres Bonifacio but
about the 1806 Revolution.
MUSICAL PLAY
🞭 More
popular than the opera because
of its characteristics:
🞭Less intense and dramatic
🞭More contemporary
🞭Melodies use moderate voice range
🞭Acting is less.
🞭 It
has similarities with Broadway
plays like:
🞭Miss Saigon
🞭Les Miserables
🞭Phantom of the Opera
🞭Lion King
🞭Beauty Beast
🞭The Cats
🞭 Jose
Rizal’s novels:
🞭Noli Me tangere
🞭El Filibusterismo
🞭 Musicals:
🞭Katy
🞭Atang
🞭Daragang Magayon
🞭Florante at Laura.
KATY
🞭 It
is about the life of bodabil
(vaudeville) star Katy de la Cruz.
🞭 Initially presented by Actors Studio
East Production in 1988.
🞭 Music composed by Ryan Cayabyab
🞭 Lyrics by Jose Javier Reyes
🞭 It starred Mitch Valdes in the title
role.
ATANG
It is musical based on the life of the
first superstar of the Philippines,
Atang de la Rama.
🞭 It starred Ayen Munji-Laurel,
Shamaine Centenera Buencamino,
Frances MakilIgnacio, Kalila Aguilos,
Teroy Guzman, Greg de Leon, Mitoy
Sta. Ana, Ricky Ibe, Meynard
Peñalosa, Bituin Escalante and the
Dulaang UP Ensemble.
🞭
DARAGANG MAGAYON
A production for poetry and mixed media
for male and female narrators, female
voice, two percussionists, two pianists,
and two dancers.
🞭 It was first presented at the Cultural
Center of the Philippines Loading Dock in
March 1991.
🞭 The music was composed by National
Artist Ramon P. Santos, with
choreography by Hazel Sabas, set and
🞭
FLORANTE AT LAURA
🞭 presented
by Tanghalang Pilipino at the
CCP Little Theater (Tanghalang Aurelio
Tolentino) from July 7 to 24, 1988.
🞭 This was in celebration of the 200th birth
anniversary of the author Francisco
Balagtas-Baltazar.
🞭 The musical was selected as the official
Philippine entry to the first ASEAN
Theater Festival in August 1988.
🞭 Music and musical arrangements by
Nonong Buencamino
PERFORMANCE TASK #1
🞭 Create
a short musical work using
media and technology.
🞭 You may use local folktales, legends,
history, biographies of heroes, and
customs and traditions as themes of
your musical work.
🞭 You may use OPM songs that may fit
into your chosen story.