Posts in "Public Scholarship"

meLê yamomo @ Zurich University of the Arts

meLê yamomo: “…and when I speak, my brown skin and the entire ecology vibrate”. Performance-Lecture02.05.2023, 18:00Toni-Areal, Konzertsaal 1, Ebene 7, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich What lies between theory and aesthetics? Situatedness and migration? Sounding and listening? Performing and perception? the Universal Self and the Colonial Other? What understandings transpire in imagining… Continue reading

Wagner’s “Lohengrin” in Manila

This advertisement shows that Lohengrin would have been the first Wagner opera performed in Manila in August 1895—almost half a century after the opera’s inaugural performance in Weimar. The Manila premiere production was staged by the visiting Compañia de Opera Italiana under the musical direction of Italian composer/conductor Maestro Ciro Cavalieri, together with the local Orquesta Molina under the baton of Filipino composer/conductor Maestro José Estrella.

 

Lohengrin in Manila

Lohengrin in Manila

 

Image: ©National Archive of the Philippines