Audiences from various political fences can easily relate to The Reconciliation Dinner by Floy Quintos. He is the same playwright who gave us an equally compelling play The Kundiman Party…
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Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
ORAS DE PELIGRO IS MOST POWERFUL FILIPINO FILM OF THE DECADE
Many things stay in the mind long after you have watched Joel Lamangan’s Oras de Peligro. It has news reels of the 1986 People Power which got world-wide attention for…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
NINOY AS EVERYMAN ACCORDING TO VINCE TAÑADA
Ako Si Ninoy is Vince Tañada’s second film musical after Katips. The first set the martial law experience into a musical. By turns, it is jarring, if, powerful. It got…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
DIOMEDES SARAZA, JR. AT THE MET FEB. 24
Violinist Diomedes Saraza, Jr. reaches a full musical cycle when he reprises the Sibelius violin concerto as soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic under the baton of Chinese conductor Haoran Li.…
Islander in the City | Pablo A. Tariman:
TRIUMPH AND DISCORD IN THE 2022 MMFF
The 2022 48th Metro Manila Film Festival started with a bang with the traditional parade that stalled traffic in the Quezon City thoroughfares before opening day on December 25. Eight…
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:
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…