JOSÉ Rizal wrote the Noli Me Tangere for the benefit of the indios. But it was not meant for indios to read. The mere fact that he wrote it in the Spanish language and not Tagalog tells us that he had ...

Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere is a thing of contradictions. While it helped catapult Rizal into the consciousness of Filipinos a century ago, it also landed him a special spot in the minds of our ...

WHEN I was young, I found my mother’s old copy of a book entitled The Social Cancer. When I opened it, I was surprised that it was actually an English translation of José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere by ...

Noli Me Tangere, an opera in Tagalog, premiered on Feb. 5, 1957, at the Far Eastern University Auditorium. Don David and Juanita Javier portrayed the ill-fated lovers, Crisostomo Ibarra and Maria ...

MANILA, Philippines — Amid the shocking revelations of billion-peso graft in ghost and substandard flood control projects, a rare first edition of the Noli me Tangere has come to light. Jose Rizal, ...

Rizal’s two novels, “Noli Me Tangere” and “El Filibusterismo,” shook me to the core of my being when I first read them as a young student for reasons that I could not explain. No other books have ...

Dr. Jose Rizal’s 18th-century oeuvre is having a resurgence thanks to an adaptation by a local TV station, a historical portal fantasy series called “Maria Clara at Ibarra.” And while adapting ...

This is a reaction to the article “Rediscovering the ‘Noli’” (6/29/19) in which columnist Nenita Sta. Roman Cruz stated that the recent “Noli Me Tangere” opera at the CCP “succeeded in introducing ...

Manila, Philippines--The Philippines' first full-length opera, National Artists Guillermo Tolentino and Felipe Padilla De Leon's most beloved 1957 opera, "Noli Me Tangere" (Huwag Mo Salangin/Touch Me ...