20TH & 21ST CENTURY MULTIMEDIA FORMS

WHAT IS AN OPERA?

Is an art and music form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and a musical score, usually in an elaborate theatrical setting (opera house)

It incorporates many of the elements of spoken theater, such as acting, scenery, costumes, and sometimes dance. The performance is typically given an opera house, cultural center, theater, or auditorium. It is also accompanied by any orchestra or smaller ensemble, and the dialogue is entirely sung and not spoken.

WHAT IS PHILIPPINE OPERA?

Filipino opera started in the Philippines during the 19th Century when Instrumental virtuoso, opera singers, and Spanish zarzuela performers came.

The element of tragedy, emanating from the popular themes of romance, deceit, murder, vendetta, and other elements of human frailty,

LOCAL THEATERS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Local Theatres and Early Philippine Operas

LOCAL THEATERS

Zorrilla Theater, 1817-1893

Principe Alfonso Theater, 1862-1876

Variedades Theater, 1847

Quiapo Theater

Tondo Theater, 1841

❖ Manila Grand Opera House, mid-19th

❖ Metropolitan Theater, 1931

• PRINDRE ALPINSO THEATRE
• VARIEDADES THEATRE
• QUIAPO THEATERS (TIMES THEATRE
• The Quiapo Theate
• METROPOLIT THEATER

PROMINENT FIGURES OF THE PHILIPPINE OPERA

BONIFACIO ABDON

First Filipino Opera ConductorV

DR. RAMON JAVIER

- First Filipino Impresario who promoted local talents to participate in foreign productions.

PATRICIO MARIANO

- Wrote the "Lakangbini" that was first staged at the Metropolitan Theater in December 19, 1933

CUUURAL CENTEICOF THE PHILIPPINES

Established by then First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos in 1969 paved the way for other Filipino operas to be staged at a legitimate venue of international standard.