20 and 21 Century

th st The Beggar’s Opera and changed opera because it was

the first opera to be sung in English. This increases the
popularity of opera which caused a demand for more
Multimedia Forms operas to be done in English. Music Theater as a whole
evolved even more in 1866 when The Black Crook was
premiered as the first Broadway musical. This was the
first musical to introduce spoken words between songs
and while the production was staggering five and a half
long, the musical was performed in impressive 474
times.
The Progression of Early Music Theatre
The success of Black Crook helped increased the
popularity of Broadway as a whole. More musical were
being written with spoken dialogue between songs and
the messages were also very progressive for the time. In
1927, the musical showboat was written to include
themes of racial prejudice. The music was also evolving
with the times. As the 1934 musical anything-goes was
the first musical to heavily involve Jazz. After the end of
the Great Depression, musicals started integrating more
Content Standards staging and dancing. This could be seen in the very
֍ Demonstrate understanding of characteristic influential musical Oklahoma. Then in 1954, during the
features of 20th and 21st century opera, musical early years of the Civil Rights Movement, West Side
play, ballet, and other multimedia forms. Story was released which addressed in the issues of race
 Demonstrate understanding of the relationship prejudice, social inequality, and other issues that were
among music, technology, and media. very progressive for its time with overwhelming success.
Performance Standards The Musical Evolutions and Styles of Music Theatre and Broadway
֍ Performs selections from musical plays, ballet, What makes musicals so special is their ability
opera in a satisfactory level of performance. to incorporate popular music of the time into a new
 Creates a musical work using media show. From the 1940’s to the mid-1960’s , musicals use
and technology. classical or jazz in their shows that all changed in 1966
Learning Competencies when the musical hair became the first to use rock
Describe music. In mid-1970’s, a new genre called jukebox
֍ Describe how an idea or story in a musical play musicals became popular by making musicals based off
is presented in a live performance or video; of songs or artists’ works. Popular examples of this are
Explain Saturday Night Fever, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys and
 Explain how theatrical elements in a selected American Idiot. This style of musicals is very effective
part of a musical play are combined with music in promoting old and popular music and that trend
and media to achieve certain effects; continues to this day.
Create/Improvise Modern Broadway and What Can You See!
֍ Create/improvise appropriate sounds, Another thing that makes musical so special is
music, gestures, movements, and costume using their stories. Musical are a chance to create and perform
media and technology for a selected part of a an original story for the audience to experience, with
musical play. musicals you can experience horror in The Phantom of
the Opera, you can feel pain through revolution like Les
History of Music Theatre and Broadway Miserables, you can relive Disney Classics with The
Music Theater has its origins dating back to Lion King or Aladdin, learn a different side of evil in
ancient times. In ancient Greece, they combined music Wicked or you can have fun learning about the founding
with their theater and later the Romans adopted the brothers in the American Revolution through the hit
Greek style into their performances. In China, they had sensation Hamilton. There are so many musicals to
their own genres of theater that would also involve choose from which always make musical theatre one of
music. In the 1500’s, a new style of musical theater the most enduring genres of music
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNiuq1wnNo&t=312s
called opera was created in Italy and became the most
popular form of entertainment throughout Europe for Opera in the Philippines
nearly 300 years. The next evolution in Music Theater
came in the late 1800’s in New York with the opening of
Broadway. This genre of music from its original form
continues to be one of the most entertaining styles of
performance art today.
Characteristics and Evolutions of Music Theatre
One of the primary characteristics of Music
Theater is its ability to adopt. Adopt means to take on or
adjust to new situations Music Theater thrives on its
ability to adopt to the new musical trends of the time.
When opera was first created, classical music was used
because that was the most popular style of music at the
time. Most of the singing was also done in Italian.
However in 1728, a British composer John GAE wrote
 Manila Grand Opera House

 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) 
֍ Dialogue is entirely sung and not spoken.

Table of Contents
Philippine Opera
Philippine Ballet
Philippine Musical Play Metropolitan Theater
Broadway Musical

Philippine Opera
 Opera was first introduced to the Philippines in
1878 through the zarzuela, a Spanish art and
music form that involves spoken and sung
words; it was eventually called sarswela after
adapting to local culture. The sarswela would,
then, more commonly be known as local opera.
֍ The element of tragedy, emanating from (CCP) Cultural Center of the Philippines
the popular themes of romance, deceit, Sandugong Panaguinip
murder, vendetta, and other elements of
human frailty, became a favorite story pattern of
the  Filipino opera.

֍ First Filipino opera staged in 1902

 By Ladislao Bonus-Father of Phil. Opera
Philippine Opera Theaters ֍ First performed in the Zorilla Theater on August
 Zorilla 2, 1902.
֍ Principe Alfonso  Later translated by the Englishman M.W.
 Variedades ֍ Loving with the title “The Dreamed Alliance”
֍ Quiapo Theater Lakangbini by Patricio Mariano
 Tondo Theater
֍ Manila Grand Opera House
 Metropolitan Theater

Zorilla Theather
  Operang Tagalog na may Isang Pasimula at Philippine Opera
Tatlong Yugto
֍ Staged at the Metropolitan Theater on December
19, 1933.
Prominent Figures in Philippine Opera
Bonifacio Abdon – composer and first
Filipino conductor

 La Loba Negra
֍ Noli Me Tangere
 El Filibusterismo
Opera vs. Musical

Dr. Ramon Javier – first Filipino opera impresario

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
La Loba Negra

Orchestra Molina - known for their interpretation of

operatic works as well as other classical compositions
First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos - established
the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1969 which
paved the way for other Filipino operas to be staged at a
legitimate venue of international standard.
Operatic Divas
Nelia Manalo - portrayed the leading role of  Violetta in
Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata.  The music was composed by National Artist
Mercedes Matias-Santiago - portrayed the role  as Francisco Feliciano, with libretto by
Lucia in Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di  Lamermoor. soprano Fides Cuyugan Asensio.
֍ The premiere was held in 1984 followed
by another presentation in 1985.
֍
Ballet in the Philippines

Jovita Fuentes - portrayed the role as Mimi in  Giacomo

Puccini’s La Boheme and eventually  became one of our
National Artists .
Famous Ballet Companies
  Ballet adaptation of Severino Reyes’ folktales
Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang. It was meant
to instill and rekindle the interest of the
Filipino youth in the beauty, richness, and
heritage of Philippine literature.
֍ Two episodes of such stories were presented by
Ballet Manila, with Lisa Macuja-Elizalde as
 BALLET PHILIPPINES - Founded in 1969 by the company’s Executive Director and
Alice Reyes with the support of Eddie Elejar and prima ballerina. Entitled Tatlong Kuwento ni
the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Ballet Lola  Basyang (2009) and Tatlo Pang Kuwento
Philippines (BP) is widely recognized today as a ni Lola  Basyang (2013)
cornerstone of the Filipino cultural identity. Its Tatlong Kwento ni Lola Basyang
audience represents a cross-section of Manila’s Featured the following stories:
populace and includes visitors from around the  Ang Kapatid ng Tatlong Marya
country and around the world. Each year ֍ Ang Mahiwagang Biyulin
outreach and educational programs introduce  Ang Prinsipe ng mga Ibon
new generations of audience members not only
to dance, but to music and visual art as well.
BP’s official school, the CCP Dance School,
continues to produce dancers of international
caliber. As the dance company in residence at
the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Ballet
Philippines is globally recognized as the
country’s flagship company in ballet and  
contemporary dance.
֍ The Philippine Ballet Theatre is a classical
ballet company in the Philippines. The
Philippine Ballet Theatre was founded in 1987
out of an alliance of leading dance groups. It
quickly won recognition as a resident ballet
company of the Cultural Center of the Rama Hari
Philippines.
 Ballet Manila is a classical ballet institution and
dance company in the Philippines. It currently
highlights more than fifty highly trained dancers
in the highly rigorous Russian method of
classical ballet. Locally the company has
performed in 47 cities holding more than 4,100
performances. Lisa Macula-Elizalde as the
artistic director and principal dancer. ֍ Philippine adaptation of the Indian epic
Lola Basyang – The Ballet Ramayana set to music, dance, and drama.
 Originally presented on February 8 to 17, 1980,
with the creative team of Ryan Cayabyab
(Music), National Artist Alice Reyes
(Choreography), National Artist Bienvenido
Lumbera (Literature), and National
Artist Salvador Bernal (Theater Design), with
the CCP Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Cayabyab.
֍ The production had the dancers moving
alongside the characters to provide the
choreographic interpretation of their singing and
acting.
Musical Plays  Broadway musicals are popular entertainment
with themes and texts which are generally light
and easy to understand. • These may include the
problems of everyday life, such as love and
romance, social acceptance, jealousy and
intrigue, and adventure. • Singing is usually
amplified, unlike the operatic quality of
classically trained voices.
֍ BROADWAY AND WEST END MUSICALS •
South Pacific • Cabaret • Les Miserables •
Phantom of the Opera • Miss Saigon • Cats •
Lion King • Beauty and the Beast • Wicked •
Mama Mia
 LEA SALONGA (INTERNATIONAL
 The musical play is a popular and generally THEATER STAR) • Best known for her
lighter form of musical drama than the opera. portrayal of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon •
֍ The themes are usually more contemporary, and First Filipina to have won so many international
the musical melodies more manageable by the awards for a single role • First Asian to play the
average singer. role of Eponine in the musical Les Miserables
 The acting is less intense and dramatic.  The (later played the role of Fantine) • Also
choreography and dance sequences provide portrayed Mei-Li in the revival of Flower Drum
visual breaks from the ongoing plots. Song
Filipino Musicals

Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon And as Mei-Li in Flower

֍ A product of Philippine theater highly Drum Song
influenced by Broadway and West End The Phantom of the Opera
 Mostly adapted from novels, literary works, Musical Plays in the Philippines
or biographical sketches of famous artists
֍ Musical plays have been associated with the
Broadway plays

֍ In the Philippines, the musical play is a more

recent development than Broadway and West
End, relying mostly on adaptations from novels,
literary works, or biographical sketches of
famous artists.
Andres Bonifacio, Ang Dakilang Anak Pawis: The Musical

Broadway Musicals

 A five-act work commissioned by Alfonso Puyat

in 1979, depicting the life of revolutionary hero
Andres Bonifacio.
֍ It was co-produced by the Cultural Center of the
Philippines and the Andres Bonifacio Music
 Foundation, Inc., and was staged again at the SJ Catoy, and costume design by Julie Lluch
CCP Main Theater on August 20 and 21, 1994 Dalena.
with Jerry Dadap as composer-conductor and the
late Elmo Makil as Bonifacio.
Atang – Dulang May Musika

 Musical based on the life of the first superstar of

the Philippines, Atang de la Rama.
֍ It starred Ayen Munji-Laurel, Magsimula Ka: The Musical
Shamaine Centenera Buencamino, Frances
Makil- Ignacio, Kalila Aguilos, Teroy Guzman,
Greg de Leon, Mitoy Sta. Ana, Ricky Ibe,
Meynard Peñalosa, Bituin Escalante and the
Dulaang UP Ensemble.
Katy! The Musical
֍ The musical Katy! is about the life of bodabil 
(vaudeville) star Katy de la Cruz.
֍ Initially presented by Actors Studio East 
Production in 1988.
֍ Music composed by Ryan Cayabyab
֍ Lyrics by Jose Javier Reyes
֍ It starred Mitch Valdes in the title role.

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.  By Gines Tan was staged at the CCP
֍ The musical was selected as the official Main Theater from April 7 to 24, 1988. As the
Philippine entry to the first ASEAN Theater winner of the CCP Playwriting Contest in
Festival in August 1988. 1983, it became one of the longest running
 Music and musical arrangements by Nonong  musicals at the CCP.
Buencamino ֍ Magsimula ka, The Musical – the story of young
dreamers whose ambitions begin to fade amidst
life’s realities.
REP The Quest for Ibong Adarna
 The play takes place in the peaceable and
prosperous kingdom of Berbania, which is ruled
by the beloved King Fernando and his equally
loved wife, Queen Valeriana. They are blessed
with three sons–all mighty warriors. The eldest
and heir to the throne is the pompous Prince
Daragang Magayon Pedro; the second son is the dashing Prince
֍ A production for poetry and mixed media for Diego; and, the youngest, the kind-hearted
male and female narrators, female voice, Prince Juan.
two percussionists, two pianists, and two ֍ Their idyllic life is shattered when King
dancers. Fernando is struck by a mysterious sickness and
 It was first presented at the Cultural Center of can only be healed by the song of the mythical
the Philippines Loading Dock in March 1991. bird, Adarna. Anyone wanting to capture the
֍ The music was composed by National bird must travel to its home on Mount Tabor, a
Artist Ramon P. Santos, with choreography by journey that is difficult and froth with danger.
Hazel Sabas, set and lighting design by Katsch After his first two brothers fail on their quest,
 Prince Juan bravely takes on the task to save his
father.
 The Ibong Adarna story is an enduring epic that
remains one of our great cultural treasures. Now,
it is reborn as an entertaining play complete with
original music. Suitable for children of all ages,
The Quest for the Adarna is an original RTYA
Production under Creative Director Joy
Virata, assisted by co-directors Jamie Wilson
and Naths Everett, with music by Rony
Fortich and book and lyrics by Luna Griño-
Inocian.
֍ Adarna teaches kids unforgettable lessons
about family, courage, forgiveness, and love,
all wrapped in an entertaining stage
production.

Do not get tired of discovering your talents

and skills in singing, acting, and dancing.