What do you do when you ended up in a hospital while dressing up for the gala night of Turandot? You check the internet when you found out you are…
Category: Arts and Culture
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
DEATH IN THE MORNING
One more time You rewind another life Gone at fifty With just his poems For his only son to peruse As last mementoes. No more time to grieve The…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
HANDEL’S MESSIAH IS 280-YEARS OLD & STILL THE WORLD’S CHRISTMAS FAVORITE
Music sources noted the first performance of Handel’s Messiah took place on April 13, 1742 in Dublin’s newest concert hall at the time. How come it is still the most…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
ODE TO THE RICH AND FAMOUS
The 2022 Quezon City International Film Festival opened Thursday night (Nov. 17) with a timely social satire and with a Filipino actor as the celebrated protagonist. Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle of…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
FILIPINO WINS 2022 THAILAND INTERNATIONAL GUITAR COMPETITION
The winning streak of classical guitarist Adrik Cristobal continues. After winning the 7th Valerio International Guitar Competition in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2019 and the National Music Competitions for Young Artists…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
STUDENT OF PAVAROTTI IS NEW CALAF IN DECEMBER CCP TURANDOT
Tenor Alessandro Liberatore — a pupil of Luciano Pavarotti who sang in Manila in 1994 — is the Calaf in the CCP production of Puccini’s Turandot opening at the CCP…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
REMEMBERING FILIPINO SINGERS WHO SHONEIN TURANDOT
When Turandot opens at the Cultural Center of the Philippines on Dec. 9-11, 2022, it will bring to mind Filipino singers who distinguished themselves in the last Puccini opera. There…
Islander in the City by Pablo A. Tariman:
A BARITONE LIKE NO OTHER
Live concerts are back! They are for the most part inspiring and sadly a few disappoints. This concert mounted at the CCP main theater lobby by the Friends for Cultural…
Islander in the City by Pablo A. Tariman:
PROFILE OF A TALENT MANAGER AND FILM PRODUCER
Talent manager Ferdy Lapuz was in a quandary as he received FB comments his talent, actor Soliman Cruz, was not wearing appropriate attire during the red carpet walk at the…
Islander in the City by Pablo A. Tariman:
SOPRANO STEFANIE QUINTIN ON THE SIDE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Much was in store for music lovers when soprano Stefanie Quintin performed for the first time at Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez (Black Box Theater) last Wednesday, September 7, 2022. With flutist…