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Dalagang Bukid, written by Hermogenes Ilagan and Leon Ignacio, was first performed in 1917 at Teatro Zorilla. It is said to be the work which launched the famous soprano Atang dela Rama into stardom. The play was an enormous success in its first performances and was restaged about a thousand times after. It was also the first sarsuwela to be translated into film. The pioneer Filipino director Jose Nepomuceno translated it into a silent film that was released in 1919, the Filipino film made by a Filipino.
“Nabasag ang Banga” is sung by the female protagonist Angelita in the first act of Dalagang Bukid. The song tells a story about a young maiden who encounters a handsome boy when she goes out to get water. Due to the actions of the boy, the maiden drops the jar she is carrying, and she goes home in tears.
Reference:
Lopez, Patricia Marion Y. 2010. Imaging Women in the Sarsuwela
Unfictionalized. 2018. Jose Nepomuceno's "Dalagang Bukid"
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SOURCES
Audio: • Nabasag Ang Banga (2002)
Images:
“US Flag with 48 stars. In use for 47 years from July 4, 1912, to July 3, 1959”. Retrieved from commons.m.wiki...
"A Young Girl Collecting Water". Painting by Fernando Amorsolo (1937). Retrieved from www.mutualart....
"Scene from an Early Sarsuwela". Retrieved from unfictionalize...
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