08/06/2026
This Saturday at Manila Pianos.
Due to insistent public demand, ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ and Manila Pianos Inc. present CHRISTIANA SERAFIN DE OCAMPO in ENCORE ! An evening of opera arias by Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Strauss and Massenet. Collaborating on the piano is Dr. Peter Porticos.
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: 6 pm Saturday, June 13, 2026.
๐น: Manila Pianos Showroom, 4/f Ronac Lifestyle Center, Paseo de Magallanes, Makati City.
๐: P 1300.00 (regular), P 1000.00 (senior/pwd), P 800.00 (student).
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The artists :
CHRISTIANA SERAFIN DE OCAMPO was born in Manila. She received a scholarship to attend the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she received her B.M. under the tutelage of Edward Zambara. She completed further advanced studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum (also under scholarship) and in Vienna.
Christiana, who is a spinto soprano includes in her repertoire Aida, the two Verdi Leonoras, Desdemona, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Orchestral pieces such as the Verdi Requiem, Britten War Requiem, Strauss Four Last Songs, Wagner Wesendoncklieder, Mahler Rรผckert Lieder, Ravel Shรฉhรจrazade, and Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915 belong to her Repertoire. Serafin de Ocampo is also well known for her Lieder interpretations, having collaborated with her mentor, Norman Shetler.
Serafin de Ocampo has performed in Opera, Oratorio und Concerts in the following cities: New York, Boston, Washington DC (Kennedy Center), Manila (Cultural Center Philippines), Madrid, Barcelona, Vicenza, Rome, Prague, Ljubljana, Hamburg, Trier, Zรผrich, Salzburg, Krakau, Lodz, Vienna, Thรผringen, Jena, Perugia, Berlin and Paris. She is currently being mentored by tenor Howard Haskins.
Among her teachers were Evelyn Mandac, Craig Sirianni. Nelly Miriciouiu, Wessela Zlateva and the legendary Magda Olivero. Serafin de Ocampo is not only renowned for gripping and moving performances. She is a highly respected vocal technique teacher able to efficiently correct vocal faults using her knowledge of anatomy and Bel Canto principles. Always expanding her understanding of anatomy, she is also a certified Bowen Technique Osteopath. She recently founded the Serafin International Vocal Academy and is on the faculty of Musicfest Perugia.
She was on the faculty of Prayner Konservatorium in Vienna, Conservatoire National de Musique Paris and the American Conservatory of Paris. A polyglot, Serafin de Ocampo speaks Tagalog, English, German, French and Italian.
DR. PETER PORTICOS finished a Diplominstrumentalist (Master of Music equivalent) degree in Piano Performance under Prof. Walter Olbertz at the Hochschule fรผr Musik โHanns Eislerโ Berlin and has attended intensive masterclasses in German Lieder with Prof. Norman Shetler at the Unversitรคt Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He has given a few concerts in Slovenia, France and Germany and was on a second German concert tour with German violinist Annette Mettenleiter in April 2013. In his homeland, the Philippines, he has performed as soloist of the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra under Rodel Colmenar and of the U.S.T. Symphony Orchestra under Dr. Herminigildo Ranera, Jeffrey Solares, Reynato Ressureccion, and Vienna based concert pianist and conductor Aries Caces.
He is active as soloist and chamber musician and has performed in concerts at the Philamlife Theater, BDO Tower, Paco Park Presents, Concert at the Park, the Pundaquit Chamber Music Festival and at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, including its Filipino Artists Series. Porticos also holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics degree from the Ateneo de Manila and a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance (magna cm laude) from the U.S.T. Conservatory of Music where he was mentored in Piano by Leonor Kilayko, the late Marina Escano and Fr. Manuel Maramba, OSB. His first influential teacher in piano was the late Carmen Hernandez.
Dr. Peter Porticos is, at present, a faculty member of the UST Conservatory of Music. In June of 2017, he finished a PhD in Music major in Music Performance at the Philippine Women's University with piano major under Prof. Reynaldo Reyes, and dissertation under Dr. Felicidad Prudente.
The program:
1. G. Verdi :Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida)
2. G. Verdi : Oh, patria mia (from Aida)
3. G. Verdi : Tacea la notte placida (from Il Trovatore)
4. G. Puccini : Un bel di (from Madama Butterfly)
5. R. Strauss : Es gibt ein Reich (from Ariadne auf Naxos)
6. R. Wagner : Du bist der Lenz (from Die Walkรผre)
7. J. Massenet : Il est doux, il est bon (from Herodiade)
8. G. Verdi : Pace, pace, mio Dio (from La Forza de destino)
