Directed by DUP Artistic Director Alexander Cortez, Noli Me Tangere brings the audience the exciting world of the opera with two pianos, the songs, and the powerful voices and acting of the artists. This production promises to be a feast for the senses in-spite of its modest scale.

Young opera singers from various music conservatories collaborate and dominate Noli Me Tangere: An Opera. Under the watchful tutelage of vocal coach and music director Camille Molina, promising opera singers Myramae Meneses, Antonio Ferrer, Kuya Manzano, Elainne Vibal, interpret anew memorable songs from the opera together with established opera singers Jonathan Velasco, Cynthia Guico, Rica Nepomuceno and Joy Abalon Tamayo. Among the songs included are Maria Clara’s Kay Tamis ng Buhay, Maria Clara and Ibarra’s duet Sa Lupang Pinangako, Sisa’s haunting Awit ng Gabi, and Ibarra’s Aking Isinangguni to name but a few.

Production Designer Gino Gonzales creates an all-Filipino ambience fitting for the production. Jon Jon Villareal tackles the lighting design, choreography by Dexter Santos, video by Winter David, special props by John Gaerlan, photography by Jojit Lorenzo and Dino Dimar, and Technical Director Ohm David.

Noli Me Tangere: The Opera is supported by the UP Office of the President, UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Dean College of Arts and Letters, UP Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts, Day by Day Christian Ministries, Ms. Irene M. Araneta, Dr. Joven Cuanang and NCCA Chairman Jun de Leon.

Noli Me Tangere: The Opera runs from November 16 to December 4, 2011 (Wednesday to Friday, 7pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10 am and 3pm) at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater, Palma Hall, University of the Philippines Diliman. For sponsorship and ticket inquiries, please contact Cherry Bong Edralin at 09177500107, or the Dulaang UP Office at 926-1349, 981-8500 local 2449 or 433-7840

“Uyayi sa Digmaan,” as “play within a play,” is an interchange of the scenes of the drama Norhaina, which Teatro Pagariya rehearses, and the off-scene moments between Raizza and Kurt who are the lead actors in the play. The dramatic and real life, as it were, dialectics on stage is what provides momentum in the action and development of “Uyayi sa Digmaan.”

Norhaina, the play within, depicts the long trek of the Moro evacuees of mostly women and children in the wake of the war that breaks out at the Liguasan Marsh between the government troops and the Moro rebels. Raizza, a young Moro member of Pagariya, plays the central character Norhaina. Kurt, a Christian, plays Norhaina’s rebel- leader husband Hassan. Kuya Margo directs the play.

The rendition of the story of Norhaina offers a kind of heroic relief against a backdrop of war. Her heroism is marked from the moment she assumes leadership of the women and the barrio folk of Shariff-Aguak as they all flee across the waters of the Liguasan marsh until they reach the distant banks of Pagalungan. This she does as she carries her infant child. Her will and an abiding faith in Allah and the cause of the Bangsamoro struggle sustain her through the endless nights of their exodus, even as her heart sings constantly the uyayi.
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Ang “Pagsambang Bayan,” klasikong dulang kontra-batas militar ni Bonifacio P. Ilagan, sa direksyon ni Behn Cervantes, ay itinanghal ng Tag-ani Performing Arts Society kaugnay ng February Arts Month, sa pagtataguyod ng National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

Ipinalabas ito sa Tanghalang Batute ng Cultural Center of the Philippines at sa Bantayog ng mga Bayani noong Pebrero 2009.

Ang national tournito ay sinimulan ng dalawang palabas sa Ang Bahay ng Alumni, University of the Philippines sa Diliman, Quezon City, >sa ganap na 7 PM, 25-26 Pebrero, 2009.

Ang unang pagtatanghal sa probinsya ay sa pagtataguyod ng Workers’ Assistance Center. Ang palabas ay ginanap sa 4 PM sa Emilio Aguinaldo College Auditorium sa Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Para sa bookings, mangyaring kontakin ang Tag-ani Performing Arts Society, Inc.:
● Mobile: 09209461975 / 09228010792
● E-mail: tag_ani@yahoo.com