Fourth Quarter:

20 and 21 Century
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Multimedia Forms
Philippine Opera
Philippine Musical
Prepared by: ARLENE B. MIGUEL
G10 MAPEH TEACHER
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a. Identify the roots of the Philippine
Opera
b. Name the different Philippine
theaters
c. Identify the renowned Filipino in
terms of Philippine opera
Directions:
1. Read the information about the
Philippine Opera pages 146-147 in
your book.
2. Answer the questions that follow.
3. Write the letter of the correct
answer.
1. Where did opera start?
A.England
B.France
C.Greece
D.Italy
2. What opera captured the creative
imagination of composers, librettists,
and singers?
A. British Opera
B. French Opera
C. Greek Opera
D. Italian Opera
 3. Which of the following DOES NOT describe opera?

A. Opera is an art and musical form

B. Singers and musicians perform a dramatic
work
C. Opera combines text and a musical score
D. Opera is executed in un-elaborate theatrical
setting.
4. Which of the following is NOT an element being incorporated into the
opera?

A. Acting
B. Audiences
C. Costumes
D. Dance
E. Scenery
5. All these venues is true about where opera is being held EXCEPT?

A. Opera House
B. Cultural Center
C. Theater
D. Auditorium
E. Open Space
 6. Which DOES NOT belong to the other elements that accompanied
orchestra?

A. Orchestra
B. Smaller musical ensemble
C. Dialogue is entirely sung or spoken
D. Large musical ensemble
 7. When does Filipino opera started?

A. It started during the middle part of the 17th century

B. It started during the middle part of the 18th century
C. It started during the middle part of the 19th century
D. It started during the middle part of the 20th century
8. Who among the foreign performers DOES NOT belong to those who came to
the country to perform for enthusiastic audiences?

A. Instrumental virtuosi
B. Opera singers
C. Spanish zarzuela performers
D. International choreographers
9. The favorite story pattern of the Filipino
opera are elements of tragedy emanating
from popular themes. Which DOES NOT
belong to these themes?

A. Happy experiences of daily life

B. Murder and Vendetta
C. Other elements of human frailty
D. Romance and Deceit
10. Some operatic works were based on
previous literary creations. Which is NOT a
sample literary creations where some
Filipino operatic works is based on?

A. Noli Me Tangere
B. El Filibusterismo
C. Ibong Adarna
 Directions:
1. Match the picture to its
respective name of theater in
the Philippines.
2. Write the letter and the name.
Choices:
A. Zorilla
B. Principe Alfonso
C. Variedades
D. Quiapo Theater
E. Tondo Theater
F. Manila Grand Opera House
G. Metropolitan Theater
H. Cultural Center of the Philippines
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Questions:
1. What are the Philippine
opera theaters in the country?
What are some renowned
opera in the Philippines?
1. Sandugong Panaginip
 First Filipino opera
 By Pedro Paterno
 First performed in the Zorilla
Theater on August 2, 1902.
 later translated by the
Englishman M.W. Loving with
the title “The Dreamed
Alliance”
2. Lakangbini by Patricio Mariano

 staged at the
Metropolitan
Theater on
December 19,
1933.
NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL
FILIBUSTERISMO
 Popular novels by Dr. Jose Rizal
 Composed into operas by
National Artist Felipe Padilla De
Leon in 1970 and 1975.
 Re-staged as musicals at the
CCP with music composed by
Ryan Cayabyab
3. La Loba Negra
 La Loba Negra (The Black
She-Wolf) is a three-act
Filipino opera. Acts I and II
are based on history. Act III
is based on a legend
attributed to Fr. Jose Burgos.
La Loba Negra
 The music was composed
by National Artist Francisco
Feliciano, with libretto by
soprano Fides Cuyugan
Asensio.
 The premiere was held in
1984 followed by another
presentation in 1985.
4. Noli Me Tangere
 was composed by
National Artist Felipe
Padilla de Leon, with
libretto by National
Artist Guillermo
Tolentino. It premiered
in 1957 at the FEU
Auditorium.
Noli Me Tangere
 The cast included Juanita Javier
Torres as Maria Clara, Don
David as Ibarra, Fides Cuyugan
Asensio as Sisa, Milo Cristobal
as Padre Damaso, and Morli
Daram as the director. There
were several other productions
that followed the premiere
production.
5. El Filibusterismo
 is a novel by Dr. Jose Rizal, a
sequel to the earlier Noli Me
Tangere.
 It was written four years later.
It tells of the continuing
struggle of the Filipinos to
achieve freedom and
emancipation from Spanish
colonial rule.
El Filibusterismo

 The opera El
Filibusterismo was
composed by National
Artist Felipe Padilla de
Leon in 1970, with
libretto by Anthony
Morli. It was in three acts
and written in Tagalog.
Who are the Prominent figures
in Philippine Opera?
1. Bonifacio Abdon
-composer and first
Filipino conductor
2. Dr. Ramon Javier
– first Filipino opera
impresario
3. First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos
-established the
Cultural Center of the
Philippines in 1969
4. Orchestra Molina
known for their
interpretation of
operatic works as
well as other
classical
compositions
 Who are some of the renowned
operatic divas in the Philippines?
1. Nelia Manalo
 portrayed the
leading role of
Violetta in
Giuseppe Verdi’s
La Traviata.
2. Mercedes Matias-
Santiago
 portrayed the role as
Lucia in Gaetano
Donizetti’s Lucia di
Lamermoor
3. Jovita Fuentes
 portrayed the role as
Mimi in Giacomo
Puccini’s La Boheme
and eventually became
one of our National
Artists
Directions:
1. Read the information about the Musical
Plays page 167-168 in your book.
2. Answer the questions that follow.
3. Write the letter of the correct answer.
1. Which of the following DOES NOT describe a musical play?

A. A play or movie in which singing and dancing play

an essential part
B. Musicals developed from light opera in the early
20th century
C. Popular and generally lighter from of musical drama
D. An artistic dance form performed to music using
precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures
 2. Which DOES NOT belong to where musical plays is mostly associated with?

A. Broadway Plays of New York City

B. West End Productions in London
C. Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia
3. What is the first major Broadway musical held in 1927?

A. Showboat
B. Climb Every Mountain
C. If Ever I Loved You
D. Sun and Moon
4. Which DOES NOT belong to the songs from Broadway musical that have become popular hits?

A. Climb Every Mountain(Sound of Music)

B. I Could Have Dance All Night (My Fair
Lady)
C. If I Loved You (Carousel)
D. None of the above
5. Which DOES NOT influence Filipino musicals and get their adaptations from?

A. A product of Philippine theater highly influenced

by Broadway and West End
B. Mostly adapted from novels, literary works, or
biographical sketches of famous artists
C. Folktales and local fables, such as the beloved
stories of Lola Basyang, as well as epics from
neighboring countries such as India’s Ramayana
Directions:
1. Read pages 168-171 of your textbook.
2. Write the word TRUE if the statement
about Lea Salonga and some musicals
are correct
3. Write the word FALSE if it is wrong.
Write the word that makes the statement
wrong.
Lea Salonga
_______________1. Lea
Salonga is one of the Filipino
artists who attained the superstar
status on both London’s West
End and Broadway.
_______________2. Lea Salonga is
best known for her portrayal of
Eponine in the musical Miss Saigon
which she won the prestigious Tony
Award for theater in the USA and
Laurence Olivier Award in London.
_______________3. Miss
Saigon is a musical by Clarke-
Michel Schoenberg and Allain
Boublil, with lyrics by Richard
Maltby Jr.
_______________4. Miss
Saigon is a modern
adaptation of the Madame
Butterfly opera by
Giacomo Puccini.
_______________5.
Madame Butterfly tells a
love story between an
American lieutenant and a
Japanese geisha.
_______________6. Miss Saigon
setting of the plot is relocated to
1970’s Saigon during the Vietnam
War telling a romance between an
American soldier and a
Vietnamese bar girl.
_______________7. Lea Salonga
became the first Asian to play the
role of Fantine in the musical Les
Miserables based on the novel with
the same title written by French
author Victor Hugo in 1862.
_______________8. Lea
Salonga also play the role of
Fantine in the musical Les
Miserables based on the novel
with the same title written by
Victor Hugo in 1862.
_______________9. The Phantom of
the Opera is a broadway musical by
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard
Stilgoe, with lyrics by Charles Hart
and music by Lloyd Webber is based
on the novel The Phantom of the
Opera by Gaston Leroux.
_______________10. The story of
The Phantom of the Opera focuses
on the story of the beautiful singer
Christine Daae as she is seduced by
a mysterious disfigured musical
genius known as “the Phantom of
the opera.”
_______________11. Les
Miserables nicknamed Les Mis is a
musical composed in 1970 by
French composer Claude-Michel
Schoenberg with libretto by Allain
Boublil, based on the novel Les
Miserable by Victor Hugo.
_______________12. Les Mis tells
a story of paroled convict Jean
Valjean, who failing attempts to
find work as an honest man, breaks
his chains and conceals his identity
in order to live his life again.
What are some of the renowned musicals in
the Philippines?
1. ANDRES BONIFACIO, ANG DAKILANG
ANAK-PAWIS, THE MUSICAL
 a five-act work
commissioned by
Alfonso Puyat in
1979, depicting the
life of revolutionary
hero Andres
Bonifacio.
2. ATANG - DULANG MAY MUSIKA
 musical based on
the life of the first
superstar of the
Philippines, Atang
de la Rama.
3. KATY! THE MUSICAL

 The musical Katy!

is about the life of
bodabil
(vaudeville) star
Katy de la Cruz.
4. FLORANTE AT LAURA, THE MUSICAL
 presented by Tanghalang
Pilipino at the CCP Little
Theater (Tanghalang Aurelio
Tolentino) from July 7 to 24,
1988. This was in celebration
of the 200th birth anniversary
of the author Francisco
Balagtas-Baltazar.
5. DARAGANG MAGAYON
 A production for poetry and
mixed media, portrays the
myth surrounding the origin
of Bicol’s famed Mt. Mayon
based on the poem by
Merlinda C. Bobis.
6. NOLI ME TANGERE, THE
MUSICAL The musical play composed
by Ryan Caybyab, with
libretto by National Artist
Bienvenido Lumbera.
7. EL FILIBUSTERISMO, THE
MUSICAL 
A Two-Act musical play
staged at the CCP Main
Theater from August 8-10,
1997 as a production of
Tanghalang Pilipino.
8. MAGSIMULA KA, THE MUSICAL
 Tells the story of young
dreamers whose ambitions
begin to fade amidst life
realities.
 They are part of the
graduating class filled with
hope but end up
compromising their idealism
for their own survival.
Directions:
1. Write the word SUN if the statement
about lesson is correct
2. Write the word MOON if it is wrong.
Identify the word/s that make the
statement wrong.
_______________1. Among the
popular themes in the Philippine
opera include vendetta, murder,
and romance.
_______________2. Metropolitan
Theater is considered a legitimated
venue for Philippine operas with
international standards that was
established by the First Lady Imelda
Romualdez-Marcos in 1969.
_______________3. Mercedes
Matias-Santiago is known as an
operatic diva and a National Artist
who portrayed the role of Mimi in
Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme.
_______________4. Pedro Paterno, a
poet, novelist, musician and a
government official, created the first
Filipino opera that was presented at the
Zorilla Theater on August 2, 1902
entitled Sandugong Panaginip.
_______________5. La Loba Negra is a
three-act Filipino opera which the first
two acts is based on history and the
third act is based on a legend attributed
to Fr. Jose Burgos, one of the three
martyred priests.
_______________6. Musical play is
best describe as a lighter form or
musical drama, where themes are
more contemporary, musical melodies
are more manageable, and the acting is
less intense and dramatic.
_______________7. Isay Alvarez is a
Filipino Artist who attained superstar status
on both London West End and Broadway
productions. She is best known for her
portrayal of Kim in the musical Miss
Saigon which she won a prestigious Tony
Award.
_______________8. Atang-Dulang
May Musika is the musical play that
talks about the life of bodabil star that
was initially presented by the Actors
Studio East Productions in 1988.
_______________9. Bimbo Cerrudo
portrayed the title role of the musical
play Andres Bonifacio – Ang
Dakilang Anak Pawis, a five-act
work about a revolutionary hero.
_______________10. Ryan Caybyab
is considered as the playwright of the
musical, Magsimula ka, a story about
young dreamers whose ambitions
begin to fade amidst life’s realities.
 Quote to ponder:
“Education is the PASSPORT to the FUTURE, for
tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it
today.” -Malcolm X-
Ang edukasyon ay isang pasaporte para sa magandang
kinabukasan. Pero ito ay nakasalalay sa kung paano mo
ito pinaghahandaan.
That’s all! Thank You!
Study always!