Mario Lanza preceded top three
tenors Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. This
American-Italian singer, influenced by Enrico Caruso and gifted with a
dramatic operatic voice, reached in the ’50s the rock-star status of
Elvis Presley, The Beatles, even of Michael Jackson. He was king of the
record industry, had his own national radio show and starred in
box-office before his death under mysterious circumstances.
Lanza also exerted influence on the tenors following him from
Pavarotti to Andrea Bocelli who credit Lanza as inspiration in their
pursuit of chosen careers.
Hill Station, a fine-dining restaurant in Baguio City, mounts its
third and last “Classics at the Hill” for this summer with
“Reminiscences: A Tribute to Mario Lanza” on June 27, Saturday, at 8
p.m. at its Justina Garcia Function Room. Hill Station is inside the
heritage building of Casa Vallejo, Upper Session Road.
Featured artists are: soprano Stephanie Aguilar, prizewinner at the
2012 Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition who debuted as Micaela in George
Bizet’s Carmen with the UST Symphony Orchestra; tenor Nomher Nival,
grand prize winner of the 2007 National Music Competition for Young
Artists (NAMCYA) and the 2015 Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition (male
category); and pianist Gabriel Paguirigan, a virtuoso in the making and
first prize winner in the 2011 NAMCYA piano category and grand prize
winner, Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra piano competition.
The program includes solos and duets of songs that Lanza
immortalized: “All the Things You Are,” “Be My Love,” “This Is My
Beloved,” “Granada,” “O Sole Mio,” “Santa Lucia,” “Because,” “Deep in My
Heart,” “With a Song in My Heart,” “Serenade,” “The Loveliest Night of
the Year,” “Che Gelida Manina” and “Soave Fanciulla” from La Boheme, “Un
Bel Di” from Madame Butterfly, “Una Furtiva Lagrima” from Elisir
d'Amore, Leoncavallo’s “Mattinata,” Verdi’s “La Donna e Mobile,” “They
Didn't Believe Me.”
“Reminiscences” is a production of Hill Station, the Cultural Arts
Events Organizers (CAEO) in cooperation with Iggy’s Inn, Manila Chamber
Orchestra Foundation, National Commission for Culture and the Arts and
the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.
Tickets are pegged at P500 each.
Contact Details:
For
more details, please call Hill Station at (63 74) 424-2734 or (63 2)
664-4850 or CAEO at (63 2) 997-9483 or (63 920) 954-0053.
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