6/16, Tomorrow’s Memories: A Little Manila Diary

June 16, 7:30-9:30pm; June 17, 3:00-5:00pm and 7:30-9:30pm; June 18, 3:00-5:00pm

The San Francisco Girls Chorus concludes its season with the world premiere of Tomorrow’s Memories: A Little Manila Diary, a new SFGC-commissioned choral-opera from American composer Matthew Welch. The semi-staged work is based on Tomorrow’s Memories, A Diary, 1924-1928, the diary writings of Filipina immigrant Angeles Monrayo, and reflects on the importance of the Filipino diaspora’s cultural impact on America particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously scheduled for its world premiere during the 2021-2022 season but canceled due to COVID, the performances will be led by Artistic Director Valerie Sainte-Agathe and feature Filipino guest artists including stage director Sean San Jose and guitarist Florante Aguilar, with percussionist Haruka Fujii.

Using libretto set to Angeles Monrayo’s personal diary adapted by the composer, Tomorrow’s Memories tells both a Bay Area related Filipino-American coming-of-age story and celebrates the diversity of Filipino music, culture and diaspora. Angeles’s prose, written across four and a half years following emigration from the Philippines to Hawaii, San Francisco and Stockton, explores the joys and trials of being a young immigrant woman, redefining gender-norms, supporting a family as a child, and encounters with racism and sexism.

$20 to $45.

Presented by San Francisco Girls Chorus.

http://www.sfgirlschorus.org 415-863-1752 x333

Magic Theatre, Landmark Building D, Fort Mason Center
2 Marina Blvd
San Francisco, California 94123