A bit of operetta
AFTER THe success of Love Sings!, the Philippine Opera Company’s Young Artists’ Series (YAS) Season 2018-2019, in cooperation with the Cultural Center of the Philippines and The Friends of the Philippine Opera Foundation, present the second offering for the season T’AINT OPERA! (Hits from the Weird and Wonderful World of OPERETTA!). An operetta is a short opera, usually on a light or humorous theme and typically having spoken dialogue. It is often considered less “serious” than operas. While an opera’s story is usually believable and more relatable to its audience, an operetta aims to simply amuse. Notable composers of operettas include Offenbach, Johann Strauss, Lehár, and Gilbert and Sullivan. T’AINT OPERA! features familiar, easy-to-listen-to music combined with dance, acting, and storytelling that recalls happy memories of a time when life was less complicated. Listen to arias from Die Fledermaus, Merry Widow, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, The Land of Smiles, Yeomen of the Guard, Christopher Columbus, Candide, and many more. Directed by Jaime del Jaime Del Mundo. For details call Philippine Opera Company at 0917-645-2946.
A bit of Shakespeare
HEROES, LOVERS & VILLAINS, the culminating showcase for Repertory Philippines’ Adult Master Class 2018, will be held on July 21, 8 p.m., at The Mirror Studio, 5F SJG Center, Kalayaan Avenue, Makati. There will be excerpts of Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Shakespeare’s sonnets featuring Sofia Capua, Rico del Rosario, Elliott Hay, Elliot Miranda, Elle Sebastian, Kurt Soberano, Nico Torio, and Althea Vega, directed by Jeremy Domingo and Goldie Soon. Tickets are P300 at the door.
Performance art with Ronnie Lazaro
BREATHLESS, a collaborative performance art work featuring renowned actor Ronnie Lazaro, will focus on exploring the limitations of the human body. It will be held on July 21, 6 p.m., at the Black Box Theater of the of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB). Developed over months by Lazaro and students under the Benilde Arts and Culture Cluster, the initiative will be the first in the Philippines to use crowdsourcing to support performance art. The event is free and open to the public. Online pre-register is on-going. Visit http://bit.ly/RonnieLazaroBreathless or call 0920-299-2573 to confirm attendance. The Black Box Theater is located at the 6th floor, School of Design and Arts Campus, Pablo Ocampo (Vito Cruz) St., Malate, Manila.
Something completely different
THE Benilde Arts and Culture Cluster and the Benilde Arts Management Program present A History of Ideas, a performance/lecture written, produced, and presented by Lourd de Veyra and Erwin Romulo. This will be held on Aug. 4, 6 p.m., at the 5F School of Design and Arts Campus Theater, De La Salle — College of Saint Benilde, Pablo Ocampo (Vito Cruz) St., Malate, Manila. Tickets cost P500. For inquiries, ticket reservations and group discounts, e-mail Kaye de la Rosa at benildeartsandculturecluster@benilde.edu.ph, text Julia Francia at 0955-563-1368, text Vangie Binarao or Jaz Tugas at 0917-563-8926, call Vangie Binarao or Jaz Tugas at 230-5100 ext. 3863, or visit https://www.facebook.com/AHistoryofIdeas/. Tickets may also be purchased from Ticket World.
Submission deadline for art award extended
THE Maningning Miclat Art Foundation, Inc. (MMAFI), in cooperation with District Gallery and Far Eastern University (FEU), has extended the submission of online entries to the 2018 Maningning Miclat Art Award to July 31. Entries must be submitted to maningning2018@gmail.com. Artists of shortlisted entries will be informed through e-mail on Aug. 13. The actual artwork of shortlisted entries should be submitted along with other requirements to the FEU President’s Committee on Culture office no later than Aug. 28. Shortlisted entries will be unveiled and displayed at the Exhibit Hall of the FEU Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts from Sept. 3 to 28. Awarding will be at FEU on Sept. 28 back-to-back with the performance art, Ginugunita Kita. All submitted artworks will be available for sale. The grand prize winner, to be chosen by the Board of Judges, will receive a Julie Lluch sculpture trophy, P28,000, a Miclat book collection, and a solo exhibit at District Gallery. Maningning Miclat was a poet of three languages, prize-winning artist, published essayist, translator/interpreter and teacher. She passed on at the age of 28 in 2000. In her honor, the MMAFI, which was formed in 2001, has been organizing activities aimed at encouraging creativity and recognizing, awarding and nurturing outstanding and talented young poets and artists 28 years old and younger, the same age when she died. Poetry and painting competitions are held alternately, poetry during odd-numbered years and painting during even-numbered years. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/brilliant.maningning/. For inquiries, e-mail maningningfoundation@gmail.com.
