Ang Bagong Harana opens Phl Opera Company’s 15th-year

In celebration of its 15th anniversary, Philippine Opera Company is bringing back Ang Bagong Harana which is calculated to remind us to put our country’s future first especially in the coming election.

From children’s songs to tribal chants, from planting songs to courtship ditties, from stirring kundiman to the delightful showstoppers by Sylvia La Torre, Ang Bagong Harana will showcase the best of all the Filipino composers from different music genres — Nicanor Abelardo, Ryan Cayabyab, Willy Cruz, Francisco Santiago, Antonio Molina, Resti Umali, George Canseco, Ernani Cuenco, Levi Celerio, Jose Estrella, Constancio De Guzman and Felipe de Leon, to name a few.

Ang Bagong Harana features Karla Gutierrez, Cris Go, Lorraine Lisen, Melissa Camba, KL Dizon, Cristiani Rebada, Michael Odoemene, Noel Rayos, Lawrence Jatayna and Nazer Salcedo with the special participation of the Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group. Floy Quintos is the director, with musical arrangements by four of the country’s most awarded arrangers Von de Guzman, Jessie Lasaten, Jesse Lucas and Paulo Zarate.

Ang Bagong Harana will continue its run on Oct. 24 and 25 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza. For tickets, call Philippine Opera Company at 822-9609 or 0917-5272880 and TicketWorld (891-9999) or like Philippine Opera Company on Facebook.

Pen, Pen de Sarapen is a children’s folk song in Tagalog. Filipino children use it to select the person who’s going to be the ‘it’ in a game. It’s the Tagalog version of the English counting rhyme Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.