Hermogenes Ilagan: Father of Tagalog Zarzuela Photography had a head too big

had a head too big for his little puny body

270 pages / Paperback

Published in 2016 by Ateneo De Manila University Press

he has examined and described with meticulous accuracy the 46 leading Filipino individuals

then seven years old) remembered him as being

Hermogenes Ilagan: Father of Tagalog Zarzuela Photography had a head too bigHermogenes Ilagan wrote some of the best love Tagalog zarzuelas of all time. His most popular zarzuela, 'Dalagang Bukid,' has been mounted for an unprecedented number of times, perhaps the most performed Tagalog play of all time. Made into a movie starring Atang de la Rama, the superstar of her era, it ushered in the sound era and became the first real blockbuster hist of Philippine cinema. Ilagan wrote about a hundred zarzuelas, many of whose scripts