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THE LION KING officially opened at the 4,500-seater Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand (NZ), last weekend. It's THE LION KING's first official visit to NZ.

The best-selling book and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Novel in Filipino in 2015, Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, written by Edgar Calabia Samar, has been adapted into a stage play, bearing the same title, runs this weekend at St. Mary's College in Quezon City.

SV Studios Events and Workshop Services' revival production of Rizal Behind Bars revisits Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal's final moments in prison. What was on his mind at that time? What were his frustrations or fears? Child actor Santino Juan Santiago, who alternates with David Jesu Ferro, was supposed to debut last October 2019 as the show's Little Rizal, but he couldn't. He was on tour, playing Young Simba in Disney's The Lion King in Bangkok, Thailand.

Lebo M., an additional music composer and co-lyricist; Omar Rodriguez, resident director, and Andre Jewson, a cast member who plays Mufasa's right-hand man [bird], Zazu, recently sat down with BroadwayWorld.

The Tony Award-winning musical Disney's The Lion King international tour plays in Hong Kong for the first time! The show runs now through 12 January 2020 at AsiaWorld-Expo Arena, an indoor arena that can accommodate a maximum capacity of 14,000.

Celebrating it's 22nd year, the musical adaptation of Disney's The Lion King has premiered in Hong Kong!

Disney's The Lion King international tour performs before Hong Kong audiences for the very first time and it's extra special because the Tony Award-winning musical is staged at the AsiaWorld Expo Arena (yes in an arena!).

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and J&S Productions Inc., together with the Department of Education (DepEd), the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and Enrique Zobel Foundation Inc., bring back the smash-hit landmark production of 'Noli Me Tangere, The Opera,' to the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo of the CCP for one weekend only, from June 21 to 23, 2019.

We're excited to offer limited 50 Orchestra Side tickets (now P1,725 each; originally P2,300 each) to the limited return engagement of the smash-hit NOLI ME TANGERE, THE OPERA at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo from June 21 to 23, 2019.

We're excited to offer limited 50 Orchestra Center tickets (now P2,100 each; originally P2,800 each) to the limited return engagement of the smash-hit NOLI ME TANGERE, THE OPERA at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo from June 21 to 23, 2019.

In its 50th anniversary, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and J&S Productions Inc. are thrilled to welcome new cast additions to the smash-hit NOLI ME TANGERE, THE OPERA's limited return engagement at the CCP Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo from June 21 to 23, 2019. Lyric soprano Mheco Manlangit joins the cast as Maria Clara; boy sopranos Miguel Suarez, Matteo Teehankee, and Johann Andra to play Basilio, and tenor Paul Dominique Galvez to play Albino.

The Philippines' first full-length opera, National Artists Guillermo Tolentino and Felipe Padilla De Leon's most beloved 1957 opera, 'Noli Me Tangere' (Huwag Mo Salangin/Touch Me Not) returns to the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) main theatre, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, from March 8-10, 2019.

The Philippines' first full-length opera, National Artists Guillermo Tolentino and Felipe Padilla De Leon's most beloved 1957 opera, “Noli Me Tangere” (Huwag Mo Salangin/Touch Me Not) returns to the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) main theatre, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, from March 8-10, 2019.

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The Philippines' first full-length opera, National Artists Guillermo Tolentino and Felipe Padilla De Leon's most beloved 1957 opera, 'Noli Me Tangere' (Huwag Mo Salangin/Touch Me Not) returns to the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) main theatre, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, from March 8-10, 2019.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and J&S Productions Inc., with support from the Honorable Senator Loren Legarda, are thrilled to announce the performance schedule of the previously named main casts of the restaging of Felipe Padilla De Leon's 'Noli Me Tangere, The Opera' at the CCP on March 8-10, 2019.

The Philippines' first full-length opera, National Artists Guillermo Tolentino and Felipe Padilla De Leon's most beloved 1957 opera, 'Noli Me Tangere' (Huwag Mo Salangin/Touch Me Not) returns to the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) main theatre, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, from March 8-10, 2019.

Maestro Herminigildo Ranera led the music rehearsal of 'Noli Me Tangere, The Opera's' 60th-anniversary production at Philippine Women's University auditorium last weekend, exactly a week before the show's gala premiere at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and J&S Productions Inc., in cooperation with Ayala Foundation, have announced the full cast for the 60th-anniversary production of the Philippines' first full-length opera, Noli Me Tangere, an opera by National Artists Felipe de Leon and Guillermo Tolentino, directed by Jerry Sibal, featuring the newly formed 53-piece Noli Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Herminigildo Ranera.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and J&S Productions Inc., in cooperation with Ayala Foundation, will co-present the Philippines' first full-length opera Noli Me Tangere, The Opera's 60th-anniversary production at the CCP's Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo from January 28 (gala premiere) to February 3, 2017.