Passionata: A Repeat Performance

Passionata: A Cultural Heritage Celebration will be back on January 16, 2010 at the SM Theater 1 due to popular demand! It was watched by over 2,150 people last November 30, and the accolades haven’t stop coming!

“Its not the usual, concert! ”
“Much better than I expected, and grander than I imagined.”
“Can’t imagine it was mounted in Cebu and performed by all Cebuanos!”

There will be again be 3 performances:

Matinee at 2:00 to 3:45, 4:30 to 6:15 and the Gala Presentation at 8:00 p.m.

It will be a topbilled by a 10 piece orchestral band with 2 award winning choirs – Mandaue Children’s Choir and the Cebu Chamber Singers. There will be dancers also from the Mandaue City School of the Arts and the Knapsack Dancers.

It is a cultural Heritage presentation that is endorsed by CHED-7 and DepEd -7 as well as the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation cultural Heritage Program.

The concert will be 2 parts: The first part of about 12 songs will be all Filipino and Visayan Folk songs and dances.

The second part will be an international repertoire with pop and popular pieces from China, Japan, Korea, France, USA, Israel, Thailand, Indonesia, and Russia.

It will end with a grand finale of two of the greatest music. This grand finale will be a 10 piece orchestra backed up by 55 singers singing George Frederick Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ode to Joy ( Official anthem of the European Union)

Other notable songs in the repertoire:

Si Filimon, Si filimon
Pasayawa Ko Day
Matud Nila
Bahay Kubo
Sitsiritsit
Baleleng

Sunflowers ( Wang Yo Shi – china)
Rivers Flows in you ( Yiruma – Korea)
Hava Nagila ( Jewish – Israel)
Circle of Life ( African American – USA Broadway)

Tickets for the Matinee will be at P150, P250 and P500.

Tickets for the Gala will be at P300, P600 and P1,000.

The musical directors will be Maestro Ariel Perez and Maestro Dennis Sugarol. Music arrangements by Nendel Endrina, and Jake Gacang. Executive Producer: Wilson Ng

Tickets are NOW available at NGenius stores in SM Cebu, Ayala Cebu, a City Mall, and NGenius Asiatown IT park. It is also available at SM Department Store as well as the Hospitality Desk of Marco Polo Hotel, Cebu.

Visit Passionata on FaceBook. Just sign up to confirm your attendance.