MANILA, Philippines - French conductor Michael Cousteau returns to the Philippines to lead the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) for a special concert on April 28 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Main Theater.
Cousteau will be accompanied by two voice experts of the Paris Conservatory: Stéphane Werchowski and Florence Guignolet. The two experts will give a weeklong Voice Master Class to Filipino singers.
The concert will combine the arias worked on during the singing workshop (Offenbach, Mozart, Bizet) and Symphony in D Minor by Cesar Franck.
“Songs and Symphony” is a FrancoPhil event organized by the Embassy of France, Alliance Française de Manille and Rustan’s, with the support of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Air France-KLM, BPI, Pernod Ricard Philippines, the Philippine Choral Directors Association, le Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris (département supérieur pour jeunes chanteurs, le jeune choeur de Paris) and St. Scholastica’s College-Manila.
For ticket sales and information, call the CCP at 832-3704 or 832-3706 or Ticketworld at 891-9999. Tickets are P600 (Orchestra Center), P500 (Orchestra Sides) and P300 (Balcony I).
For information, call Sabrina Durand, AFM cultural coordinator, at 895-7585, 895-7441, 0917-8928968, e-mail sabrina@alliance.ph, or visit www.alliance.ph. Alliance Française is at 209 Nicanor Garcia St, Bel-Air II, Makati City.
You may also contact Astrid Renoux, French Embassy cultural attachée, at 857-6935, e-mail astrid.renoux@diplomatie.gouv.fr, or visit www.ambafrance-ph.org.