The Sunshine Place completes this year’s Sunshine Classics online concert series with Classical to Crossover featuring award-winning Filipino soprano-songwriter Lara Maigue and pianist Mariel Ilusorio. This can be viewed until December 31 via the Sunshine Place: Senior Recreation Center’s YouTube Channel. Viewers can get a private link to the concert upon ticket purchase.
Maigue will delight music lovers with well-loved classics like The Doll Song (Donizetti), Der Hí¶lle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen (Mozart), Nessun Dorma (Puccini); and Broadway hits like If I Loved You (Rodgers/Hammerstein) Phantom of the Opera (Webber), Tonight (Bernstein), Can’t Help Falling in Love (Peretti, Creatore, Weiss) and On My Own (Schí¶nberg).
She will then crossover to contemporary masterpiece Con Te Partiro (Sartori/Quarantotto), and Filipino songs Sa Kabukiran (Velez), and her own award winning composition, Nasaan.
Lara Maigue is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Music major in Voice. She was recognized by the Aliw (Entertainment) Awards Foundation as Best Female Classical Performer for 2017 and Best Female Crossover Artist for 2018. She also won Best Jazz Recording at the 2019 Awit (Sing) Awards.
She was a Finalist at the Singapore Lyric Opera ASEAN Vocal Competition in 2018 and was chosen to participate in Sumi Jo’s masterclass during the 2018 Hong Kong International Operatic Singing Competition where she was praised by the Grammy Award-winning soprano for her “supernatural high notes.”
Reserve your tickets now, just contact Mariel Ilusorio at (0917) 709-2255 or marielilusorio@hotmail.com. Package ticket rates are available for all 5 concerts, as well as choose 4, choose 3 or solo concerts.
