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PROGETTO PUCCINI 2024 (October 1-4) takes center stage at The Metropolitan Theater, featuring a series of transformative opera masterclasses and culminating in a concert celebrating the beloved Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. This four-day opera masterclass series will bring together internationally acclaimed maestros and promising Filipino talents, offering young Filipino opera singers a unique opportunity to refine their craft. The series …

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) presents Luminaries and Legacies: CCP Gawad Para sa Sining 2024 & Other CCP Institutional Awards, a week-long exhibition that opened on September 20, 2024, at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater in Circuit Makati. The Luminaries and Legacies exhibit celebrates the CCP’s role as a leading institution in honoring exceptional achievements in the arts. …

By Audie See Do you know that the leading man for all seasons Gabby Concepcion sings well and gets bookings as the main feature in unpublicized shows in various parts of the country? Singing sweetly but vibrantly in special events is how he keeps himself busy in between the TV serials he topbills with the likes of Marian Rivera and …

How do you solve a problem like opera? Considered a classical act, in which soprano Camille Lopez Molina perfectly delineated its form and content in a mediacon: “Opera isn’t only singing. It is also acting,” shared Camille. As if they’re not enough descriptions, opera has been labelled by many as an elite form of entertainment where only the coiffured and …

Rising young singer Kyle Molina, 16, has just clinched the honor and privilege of recording what is said to be the first alternative pop composition of the seasoned and award-winning hitmaker Vehnee Saturno.The song is simply titled “Ako” and its singer is the actor-looking very boyish senior high student of De La Salle-Benilde College. Kyle has been beaming with pride …

BINI, SunKissed Lola, Denise Julia, other artists to perform live Globe is gearing up to inspire the Filipino youth with G FEST 2024, an electrifying three-leg event in Manila, Iloilo, and Davao that blends music and creativity to inspire courage and unleash self-expression. This year’s G FEST, part of the annual G Day festivities marking the iconic Globe prefix 0917, …

Broadcast media giant GMA Network earned top honors for the Philippines at the ContentAsia Awards 2024, taking home four awards, including a Gold medal for “Secret Slaves: The Jessica Soho Special Report on Human Trafficking.” “Secret Slaves: The Jessica Soho Special Report on Human Trafficking,” won the Gold Award in the Best Current Affairs Programme Made in Asia for Regional …

It was amazing how it took him only less than five minutes to finish a quick pen-and-ink portrait of myself, warts and all, when I stumbled upon him recently. I was a guest, one of tens of thousands, at the 70th birthday celebration of an old friend, Mario Mamon, my high school classmate in De La Salle Lipa, held in …

To date, Cinemalaya has nurtured over 200 Filipino filmmakers and showcased over 1,000 of their works, including full-feature films, shorts, documentaries, Filipino film classics, and art films. The country’s biggest and pioneering independent film festival has been relentless in developing and supporting the production of independent Filipino films since it was founded in 2005, bringing new narratives that embody the …

Queen of All Media Kris Aquino is back in the Philippines after almost three years of medical treatment in the US. Fashion designer Michael Leyva and Kris’ friend-politician Len Alonte confirmed Aquino’s arrival in the Philippines recently. It must be remembered that Kris said in her online appearance that she’d be back home in September to do her immunosuppressant infusion …