What Filipino playright wrote a zarzuela about the archipelago that Ferdinand Magellan claimed for the king of Spain on Easter Sunday, 32 March, 1521?
Walang Sugat Walang Sugat (literally, "no wound" or "unwounded") is an 1898 Tagalog-language zarzuela (a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that includes music, singing, and poetry) written by Filipino playwright Severino Reyes. The music for the original version of the play was written by Filipino composer Fulgencio Tolentino. "Walang Sugat" was written when the zarzuela became a "potent means" of expressing Filipino nationalism during the Spanish Occupation of the Philippines that followed three centuries of Spanish rule.
Julián Cruz Balmaceda Julián Cruz Balmaceda (sometimes spelled as "Balmaseda") (January 28, 1885–September 18, 1947) was a Filipino poet, essayist, playwright, novelist, journalist and linguist. He made several works written in Tagalog, English and Spanish languages.