Manila Symphony Orchestra(MSO) to perform at new HAU theatre.

The Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will be the featured performer at the gala opening of the new Holy Angel University Theatre on Saturday, March 8.

The country’s oldest orchestra will perform numbers from the opera Carmen, Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Chicago, movies Star Wars, Mission Impossible and The Prince of Egypt, as well as Michel Legrand medleys, Filipino folk songs and other classics.

The University’s student chorale, band, rondalla, string ensemble and dance theatre will perform numbers in the show.

Prof. Arturo T. Molina, one of the Philippines’ outstanding violinists and conductors, will be conducting.

The current members of the 81-year-old orchestra are musicians who were mostly trained by the Philippine Research for Developing Instrumental Soloists (PREDIS), the Manila Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) and Prof. Basilio Manalo of the St. Scholastica’s College in Manila.

The MSO will perform in the University’s new 1000-seater theatre, which occupies the entire ground floor of the San Francisco Javier Building, named after the Spanish Jesuit who became the patron saint of Catholic missions to Asia and Japan. 

The MSO evening performance will cap the whole-day celebration marking the Opening of the University’s Diamond Jubilee.