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Ballet Manila’s “Rise!” captures the essence of rising through adversities and fulfilling its artistic director and CEO Lisa Macuja Elizalde’s “phoenix rising” pronouncement after the home theater was razed by a fire.

It takes a village to mount grand opera so a village will mount this Puccini classic at the CCP in December.

‘Rise!’ brings together the art of opera, pop music, OPM, orchestra music, and ballet in one theatrical experience

A summer night couldn’t be more propitious: an amphitheatre sitting loftily atop rugged Antipolo terrains adorned with humongous homalomenas, philodendrons, and alocasias growing uninterruptedly, a buzzing crowd of guests gushing over the museum’s Castillan-influenced architecture jutting into the night sky, and an impressive lineup of performers headlined by one of the most exciting classical singers to have emerged in the past decade joined by an international musical theater artist-guest ...