Friday, March 22, 2019

Sopranos kick off Youth On Stage series at the Ayala Museum


Coinciding with the Women's Month this March, the Youth on Stage concert series for 2019 kicks off with Women in Opera happening on March 28, 2019, 6:30 PM at the Ayala Museum.

Featured in this concert are Myramae Meneses, Nerissa de Juan, Anna Dinnah Migallos, and Stefanie Quintin, four of the country's leading sopranos who have quickly made a name for themselves with breakthrough performances in various competitions and productions here and abroad. Collaborating with them is multiple award winning pianist Gabriel Paguirigan.

This concert marks the return of Myramae Meneses in the local scene since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Anna Migallos, a graduate of the Royal School of Music in London, was part of MusicArtes' production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The MediumStefanie Quintin won Second Prize (Professional Category) at the Second Asean Vocal Competition held in Singapore. Nerissa de Juan just starred as Maria Clara in Noli Me Tangere, the Opera  by J&S Productions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines earlier this month.

The four will portray 16 roles and perform arias from various operas by Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Leonard Bernstein, George Frideric Handel, etc.

Women in Opera is presented by the Cultural Arts Events Organizer and the Ayala Museum in partnership with Lyric Piano, DZFE.FM 98.7 The Master's Touch and National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

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