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Florante at Laura is a Tagalog epic poem by Francisco Balagtas, based on his own biography and love story. It has four lines per stanza, an assonantal rhyme scheme, and a plot that involves war, betrayal, and romance.
Walang Sugat is a 1898 Tagalog zarzuela by Severino Reyes, a Filipino playwright and nationalist. It is a love story set in the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule, and has been adapted into film twice.
Zarzuela is a musical theatre form that combines spoken and sung scenes, songs, dances and orchestral accompaniment. It originated in Spain and spread to other Spanish-speaking countries, including the Philippines, where it is also known as sarswela.
La Loba Negra (The Black She-wolf) is an opera in 3 acts by Francisco Feliciano with libretto by Fides Cuyugan-Asensio.The opera was based on a novel attributed to Jose Burgos.
Ibong Adarna is a Filipino epic poem about a magical bird that can heal and sing. It is a fantasy story of three princes who seek the bird to save their father and face many adventures and trials.
Bodabil is a Filipino term for vaudeville, a popular form of entertainment from the 1910s to the 1960s. It featured musical, comedy and dramatic acts, and many film stars started their careers in bodabil.
José García Villa [1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter.He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [2] [3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [4]
The librettist wrote the libretto during the war [1] and the composer started writing the opera in 1953. However two arias from the opera, Maria Clara's "Kay Tamis ng Buhay" and Sisa's "Awit ng Gabi" were written earlier, with the former being written in 1949 and the latter written in 1952 for Fides Cuyugan-Asensio's graduation recital.