“I have always wanted to choreograph to the music of my favorite opera — ‘La Traviata’ — and excited to collaborate with my long time ‘partner in crime,’ Ballet Manila co-artistic director Osias Barroso. Rudy De Dios, recently retired principal dancer of the company, will be making an auspicious choreographic debut in his first full-length evening work with ‘Carmina Burana,’” she said.