{"id":2084,"date":"2012-08-05T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T05:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:44:42","slug":"the-barber-of-seville-a-triple-celebration-at-the-ccp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/2012\/08\/05\/the-barber-of-seville-a-triple-celebration-at-the-ccp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barber of Seville\u2019: A Triple Celebration at the CCP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The enthralling and long-awaited opera, \u201cThe Barber of Seville\u201d, held recently at the CCP Main Theater, commemorated the 65th<\/sup> anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Italy, the 60th<\/sup> anniversary of Rustan\u2019s and the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the Philippine Italian Association. Visionary Italian director Antonio Petris was also the set and costume designer, with Rugerro Barbieri, former Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, as Guest Conductor. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The theme revolves around a starlet, her agent, a nobleman and a hairdresser, and much of the pleasure of the show comes from the innovative orchestrations and the melodies that soar. It was a showcase for its sparkling Filipino and Italian ensemble.\u00a0 Premiere soprano Rachelle Gerodias, celebrated tenor Arthur Espiritu and U.S. based baritone Andrew Fernando along with visiting multi-awarded baritones Mario Cassi and Marco Filippo Romano fashioned an absurd to witty, hilarious and irresistible piece of theater. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Heading the Opening Gala were: Rustan Commercial Corp and Philippine Italian Association President Nedy Tantoco, Italian Ambassador Luca Fornari and Silvana Fornari, The glittering list of guests included: Vice-President Jejomar Binay, Senator Bongbong Marcos and wife Liza Araneta Marcos,\u00a0 Senator Loren Legarda, Senator Franklin and Mila Drilon, \u00a0Former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban, Ambassador of Argentina Joaquin Daniel Otero, Ambassador of Israel Menashe Bar-On, among others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Official hotel sponsor was The Peninsula Manila, with Metrobank Card, in cooperation with Resorts World Manila, MEGAWORLD and One\u00a0 Mega Group Inc.\u00a0 (Do visit my website: www.tinajacinto.com<\/a> and view more articles at www.facebook.com\/tinahidalgojacinto)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A scene from \u201cThe Barber of Seville\u2019 Opera presentation at the Cultural Center of the Philippines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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2Nedy Tantoco, Philippine Italian Association President and head of Rustan Commercial Corporation, center, with from left: Patrick Jacinto, Mandy Eduque, Senator Franklin Drilon and Bienvenido Tantoco, Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice-President Jejomar Binay, Liza Araneta Marcos, Senator Bongbong Marcos, Vicky Lopez and Ernest Escaler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Italian Ambassador H.E. Luca Fornari, Ambassador Isabel Wilson and Madame Silvan Fornari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Susan Macuja, Tessie Luz, Letty Syquia, Elena Colome and The Lady HB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Andrew Tan of Megaworld, former Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin and Louie Locsin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nedy Tantoco, Ching Cruz, Silvana Diaz and Diana Jean Lopez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Head of Metrobank Foundation, Chito Sobrepena, Sari Yap, Anna Sobrepena, Editor in Chief, Lifestyle Asia and Madame Silvana Fornari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Frank Evaristo, Jojo Zabarte, Georgina Padilla y Zobel and Frannie Jacinto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nedy Tantoco, Senator Loren Legarda and Marybeth de Leon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Atty. Louie Sison, Ping Valencia, Triccie Sison and Nestor Jardin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The enthralling and long-awaited opera, \u201cThe Barber of Seville\u201d, held recently at the CCP Main Theater, commemorated the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Italy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-having-a-ball","category-headline"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/21.jpg?fit=410%2C247","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9FePs-xC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinajacinto.com\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}