The second concert of the Samar International Music Festival lived up to its name with some foreign nationals attending the concert of baritone Andrew Fernando, flutist Christopher Oracion and pianist Mary Anne Espina at the Ciriaco Hotel in Calbayog City, Western Samar.
After a long drought of live opera music, Calbayog got to hear arias from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Verdi's La Traviata and Bellini's Il Puritani sang with intense fervor by Fernando.
The Broadway section had not a few in the audience singing with Fernando in his rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Some Enchanted Evening from "South pacific."
Flutist Oracion’s rendition of Czardas got a heavy applause and the audience realized the flute was just in the same level of the piano and violin.
Pianist Espina -- laboring through an upright piano that came all the way from Catarman -- tried to make the instrument sing (the first upright from Christ the King College was far better-sounding) but her technique and solid sound made up for the inferior instrument. (read more . . . )
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