Esperanza (TV series)
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Esperanza is a Filipino
primetime television
drama that was aired by ABS-CBN
and Canal de las Estrellas
in 1997 to 1999. It was re-aired in Studio 23
and Kapamilya Channel, which are both an ABS-CBN subsidiaries.
A film was made in 1999
by Star Cinema
with the same title.
As the years went by Isabel gave birth to three kids, two daughters and a son. One day Esperanza's mother took her, her sister, and brother on a bus trip to visit someone. Due to the bus accident they all got separated and had Juan believing all of them to be dead.
Unknown to all three kids they were adopted by families in the same neighborhood allowing for all three to be good friends. Esperanza, the eldest, was adopted by a poor family yet was never told she was adopted so grew up letting her adoptive mother Selya mistreat her, such as treating her like a slave while she lavished love on her own two kids JunJun and Andrea, while her adoptive father Raul did nothing to help her. The only happy moments in her life was being with her childhood friend and sweetheart Anton. While Danilo, the second child, who also did not know he was adopted, was also rescued by a poor loving family Ester and Luis who have a son named Noel, who treated him no different as if he were their own son. Cecille, the youngest, was adopted by a rich couple named Belinda and Mayor Joaquin Montejo who is very controlling and secretly beats her.
When Esperanza finally knows about her parentage she goes on the search in finding out she really is. She finds out that her mother and brother might have died in the accident while her adoptive father was able to save herself and her sister Regina but couldn't support them both. He renamed her from Socorro to Esperanza and gave Regina to the Major who accepted her only after learning that he couldn't have kids and renamed Regina as Cecille. On accident Danilo finds the newspaper Esperanza was reading that asks for help locating Juan's missing family and that explains about their separation and finally learns the truth, that he is Esperanza's brother Raphael. While Danilo now knows the truth he cannot join in Esperanza's search for their father knowing in his heart that his adoptive family is the only family he wants. Esperanza understand and continues to tell Cecille what she knows who accept this and asks her to take her away from her abusive adopted father.
As Esperanza and Cecille make their escape to Manila Danilo decides he needs to also know who he truly is. They soon find their father through the same newspaper that told them about being brothers and sisters and learn that their father has remarried to his old girlfriend, Sandra. It seems that Sandra has been keeping a secret from Juan all these years, that his children are still alive, and she will do anything to keep them apart. Even telling them that their father is so sick he must go to America to get better.
Cecille's adoptive father Mayor Montejo, takes Cecille once again and while they fight to get her back it is revealed that Anton is his son. Before he had the "accident" that wouldn't allow him to reproduce he raped Anton's mother. After finding out he has a son he decides to make a trade, he will let Cecile go if Anton will stay with him. Anton, out of love for Esperanza, agrees to the exchange. Montejo sent Anton sent to America to study and in the hopes of making him forget Esperanza.
In Manila, Esperanza meets a new suitor named Brian and finds a job as the nurse maid or companion of Isabel, the wife of Jaime. Isabel has been so traumatized by the bus accident that she has manic depression and believes that all her children died in the bus accident. Esperanza is the only one that has ever gotten through to Isabel and makes her want to get better. It is later revealed that Isabel is really Esperanza's mother.
As years pass by Esperanza continues on with her life not even once hearing from Anton. Though will find out later that Hime's niece Donna is getting married to Anton and is pregnant with his baby. Though when they see each other again they resolve old issues and Anton says that he would like to start over yet, Esperanza doesn't want to hurt Donna, only to realizes too late that she wants to fight for their love. Donna later learns that her Aunt Isabel does not love her Uncle Hime and has stolen her away from her family and tries to help her by stealing her away. During the rescue mission Hime tries to shot Anton but instead hits Donna, killing her.
Sandra takes Cecille and Danilo away from Esperanza one day when she was gone and takes them to her place to make them her slaves along with their grandmother Isabel's mom and finds out that Isabel and Sandra are half-sisters. Esperanza gets help from an attorney named Cynthia Lazaro to get her brother and sister back from Sandra. Which she eventually does.
It is then revealed that Attorney Cynthia aka Roseila has her own evil plot against Sandra, Esperanza, and her whole family. It seems that she is the bastard daughter of Juan Selgado who everyone has rejected. She has been planning for years to get vengeance on her father's family, even sending her lover Brian as her spy who accidentally fell in love with Esperanza. She has also taken Isabel captive after the "escape" and kills Sandra.
Cecille dies in a car accident when she crashes with Cynthia, but she survives. Cynthia then reunites the whole Selgado family, including Juan. Brian loses interest in Esperanza, Anton and the police come to the rescue, before Cynthia gets captured she points her gun at Esperanza, but gets killed before she can shoot her.
After all the pain and suffering, in her quest to complete her family, Esperanza finally gets reunited with them, even though Cecille is gone.
and Esperanza ended up with successful finales and their own movies the 1999 film finishes up where the TV finale left off and chronicles with another triggering ending and opens up with the beginning of the lives of the characters the film was distributed to home video in 2000.
for TV while the movie version was sung by Andre Ibara. The song was re-released in 2010 via 60 Years of Music of Philippine Soap Opera.
Koro:
Philippine drama
Philippine drama can be classified into different forms and genres, with the most popular being the teleserye and teledrama. The teleserye/teledrama is a television form of melodramatic serialized fiction. It is rooted from two words: "tele", which is short for "television," and "serye", a Tagalog...
primetime television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
drama that was aired by ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...
and Canal de las Estrellas
Canal de las Estrellas
Canal de las Estrellas is one of the cornerstone networks of Televisa, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TV in Mexico City. Many of the programs of Canal de las Estrellas are seen in the United States on Univision, Telefutura, and Galavisión...
in 1997 to 1999. It was re-aired in Studio 23
Studio 23
Studio 23 is a Filipino television network owned by the ABS-CBN Corporation. The network is named for its flagship station in Metro Manila, DWAC-TV, which is carried on UHF channel 23...
and Kapamilya Channel, which are both an ABS-CBN subsidiaries.
A film was made in 1999
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
by Star Cinema
Star Cinema
ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc. , is the wholly owned film production subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. It is the Philippines' largest film production, producing most of the highest grossing films in the Philippines.-1994:...
with the same title.
Plot
The series follows Esperanza's search for her real family. It seems that Esperanza's mother, Isabel, and father Juan Selgado, got married without the approval of Isabel's mom. In order to be together Isabel refused to marry the man her mother promised her to, Jaime Elustre, and Juan left the girl he had been dating at the time, Sandra.As the years went by Isabel gave birth to three kids, two daughters and a son. One day Esperanza's mother took her, her sister, and brother on a bus trip to visit someone. Due to the bus accident they all got separated and had Juan believing all of them to be dead.
Unknown to all three kids they were adopted by families in the same neighborhood allowing for all three to be good friends. Esperanza, the eldest, was adopted by a poor family yet was never told she was adopted so grew up letting her adoptive mother Selya mistreat her, such as treating her like a slave while she lavished love on her own two kids JunJun and Andrea, while her adoptive father Raul did nothing to help her. The only happy moments in her life was being with her childhood friend and sweetheart Anton. While Danilo, the second child, who also did not know he was adopted, was also rescued by a poor loving family Ester and Luis who have a son named Noel, who treated him no different as if he were their own son. Cecille, the youngest, was adopted by a rich couple named Belinda and Mayor Joaquin Montejo who is very controlling and secretly beats her.
When Esperanza finally knows about her parentage she goes on the search in finding out she really is. She finds out that her mother and brother might have died in the accident while her adoptive father was able to save herself and her sister Regina but couldn't support them both. He renamed her from Socorro to Esperanza and gave Regina to the Major who accepted her only after learning that he couldn't have kids and renamed Regina as Cecille. On accident Danilo finds the newspaper Esperanza was reading that asks for help locating Juan's missing family and that explains about their separation and finally learns the truth, that he is Esperanza's brother Raphael. While Danilo now knows the truth he cannot join in Esperanza's search for their father knowing in his heart that his adoptive family is the only family he wants. Esperanza understand and continues to tell Cecille what she knows who accept this and asks her to take her away from her abusive adopted father.
As Esperanza and Cecille make their escape to Manila Danilo decides he needs to also know who he truly is. They soon find their father through the same newspaper that told them about being brothers and sisters and learn that their father has remarried to his old girlfriend, Sandra. It seems that Sandra has been keeping a secret from Juan all these years, that his children are still alive, and she will do anything to keep them apart. Even telling them that their father is so sick he must go to America to get better.
Cecille's adoptive father Mayor Montejo, takes Cecille once again and while they fight to get her back it is revealed that Anton is his son. Before he had the "accident" that wouldn't allow him to reproduce he raped Anton's mother. After finding out he has a son he decides to make a trade, he will let Cecile go if Anton will stay with him. Anton, out of love for Esperanza, agrees to the exchange. Montejo sent Anton sent to America to study and in the hopes of making him forget Esperanza.
In Manila, Esperanza meets a new suitor named Brian and finds a job as the nurse maid or companion of Isabel, the wife of Jaime. Isabel has been so traumatized by the bus accident that she has manic depression and believes that all her children died in the bus accident. Esperanza is the only one that has ever gotten through to Isabel and makes her want to get better. It is later revealed that Isabel is really Esperanza's mother.
As years pass by Esperanza continues on with her life not even once hearing from Anton. Though will find out later that Hime's niece Donna is getting married to Anton and is pregnant with his baby. Though when they see each other again they resolve old issues and Anton says that he would like to start over yet, Esperanza doesn't want to hurt Donna, only to realizes too late that she wants to fight for their love. Donna later learns that her Aunt Isabel does not love her Uncle Hime and has stolen her away from her family and tries to help her by stealing her away. During the rescue mission Hime tries to shot Anton but instead hits Donna, killing her.
Sandra takes Cecille and Danilo away from Esperanza one day when she was gone and takes them to her place to make them her slaves along with their grandmother Isabel's mom and finds out that Isabel and Sandra are half-sisters. Esperanza gets help from an attorney named Cynthia Lazaro to get her brother and sister back from Sandra. Which she eventually does.
It is then revealed that Attorney Cynthia aka Roseila has her own evil plot against Sandra, Esperanza, and her whole family. It seems that she is the bastard daughter of Juan Selgado who everyone has rejected. She has been planning for years to get vengeance on her father's family, even sending her lover Brian as her spy who accidentally fell in love with Esperanza. She has also taken Isabel captive after the "escape" and kills Sandra.
Cecille dies in a car accident when she crashes with Cynthia, but she survives. Cynthia then reunites the whole Selgado family, including Juan. Brian loses interest in Esperanza, Anton and the police come to the rescue, before Cynthia gets captured she points her gun at Esperanza, but gets killed before she can shoot her.
After all the pain and suffering, in her quest to complete her family, Esperanza finally gets reunited with them, even though Cecille is gone.
Main characters
- Judy Ann SantosJudy Ann SantosJudy Anne Lumagui Santos-Agoncillo , popularly known as Judy Ann Santos or Juday/Judai, is Philippines film and television actress, product endorser, recording artist, and film producer....
as Esperanza Estrera/Socorro Salgado - Wowie de Guzman as Anton Montejo
- Marvin AgustinMarvin AgustínMarvin Jay Cuyugan Agustin, better known by his stage name Marvin Agustin is a Filipino actor and entrepreneur.-Showbiz career:...
as Danilo/Raphael Salgado - Piolo PascualPiolo PascualPiolo Jose Pascual is a Filipino film and television actor, musician, model, and producer.-Biography:...
as Brian - Angelika dela Cruz as Cecille Montejo/Regina Salgado
- Jolina MagdangalJolina Magdangal-Filmography:Pasan ko ang Daigdig-Television:-Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-2007:* FAMAS Awards - Golden Artist Awardee* PMPC Star Awards for TV - Favorite Female Host Starstruck: The Next Level* UNICEF Ambassadres of Goodwill...
as Karen Carvajal de Montejo - Jericho RosalesJericho RosalesJericho Vibar Rosales, is a Filipino cinema and television actor, singer, and songwriter....
as Buboy - Carmina VillaroelCarmina VillaroelMaria Carmina Muñiz Villaroel, also known as Carmina Villaroel is a Filipino actress, television host, and model....
as Cynthia Salazar/Rosella Salgado
Supporting characters
- Charo Santos-ConcioCharo Santos-ConcioMaria Rosario Santos known as Charo Santos-Concio or Charo Santos is a Filipina television executive, host, actress, and film producer who hosts the network's longest-running drama anthology Maalaala Mo Kaya. She is the President of ABS-CBN Corporation, and plays a powerful role in TV and film...
as Isabel Illutre de Salgado - Dante RiveroDante RiveroDante Rivero is a FAMAS award-winning and Gawad Urian Award-nominated Filipino film and television actor.-Television :-Movies:*2002 Bro.....
as Juan Salgado - Sylvia Sanchez as Celia Estrera
- Rosa RosalRosa RosalFlorence Danon Gayda , better known as Rosa Rosal, is a FAMAS award-winning Filipino film actress dubbed as the "original femme fatale of Philippine cinema". She is also known for her work with the Philippine National Red Cross...
as Doña Consuelo - Bembol RocoBembol RocoRafael Roco, Jr. is an award-winining Filipino actor whose work ranges from films to television. He is famous for his critically acclaimed role as Julio Madiaga in Maynila: Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag. Though he acts in his country's films, he also had a small role in the 1982 Australian-U.S. film The...
as Luis - Chat Silayan-BaylonChat SilayanMaria Rosario Silayan-Bailon better known as Chat Silayan was a Filipina beauty queen and actress. She won the 1980 Binibining Pilipinas Universe crown and became the third runner-up at Miss Universe 1980. A year after her stint in Miss Universe, her acting career began and she became one of the...
as Ester - Spencer Reyes as Noel
- Joel Torre as Raul Estrera
- Tanya GarciaTanya GarciaTanya Katherine Rosales Lyttle, more popularly known by her screen name Tanya Garcia , is a Filipina telenovela and film actress...
as Andrea Estrera - Emman Abeleda as Jun-Jun Estrera
- Beth Tamayo as Donna
- Elizabeth Oropesa as Sandra
- Teresa Loyzaga as Belinda Montejo
- Romnick Sarmienta as Emil
- Lito Legaspi as Joaquin Montejo
- Tommy Abuel as Jaime Illustre
- Sharmaine Suarez as Vanessa
- Rez Cortez as Delfin
- Melissa Mendez as Elena
- Dianne dela FuenteDianne dela FuenteDianne dela Fuente is a Filipino actress and singer.-Biography:Dianne dela Fuente was born Diana Soberano Manlosa on November 18, 1981 to parents Celia and Filemon...
as Marivic - Connie Chua as Kuala
- Jeffrey Hidalgo as JayJay
- Augusto Victa as Ponso
- Steven Alonzo
- Gio Alvarez
- Richard Arellano
- Monina Bagatsing
- Leandro Baldemor
- Allan Bautista
- Jackie Lou Blanco
- Ana CapriAna Capri-Biography:Capri was named Best Actress in the Cinemanila International Film Festival for the 1999 film Pila-Balde. She won her second Best Actress award for the 2005 Briccio Santos film Ala Verde, Ala Pobre...
- Diego CastroDiego CastroDiego Castro Giménez |Galicia]]) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Getafe CF as a left winger.-Football career:After starting out professionally with local Pontevedra CF , Castro moved to Málaga CF, but spent almost three seasons mainly registered with the Andalusians' B club; in December 2005,...
- Chamaine Centenera
- Gandong Cervantes
- Amado Cortez
- Renato del Prado
- Marianne dela Riva
- Miguel dela Rosa
- Andrea del RosarioAndrea del RosarioAndrea Marie del Rosario is a Filipina actress and model.She is part of the Star Magic talents. Later she decide to leave ABS-CBN to do projects on GMA-7.-Television:-References:...
- Fredmoore delos Santos
- Luz Fernandez
- Bella FloresBella FloresRemedios P. Dancel , better known as Bella Flores, is a FAMAS award-winning Filipino film actress. She is best known for her "iconic" portrayals of film villains.-Biography:Flores was born in Manila...
- Eric FructuosoEric FructuosoEric Fructuoso is a Filipino actor and former hip hop dancer. He rose to fame in the early 90's as part of the teen boy group "Gwapings" along with Mark Anthony Fernandez, Jomari Yllana and later with Jao Mapa.He has recently portrayed mature roles particularly villain roles, father characters and...
- Cheska GarciaCheska GarciaCheska Garcia, is a Filipino actress and model. She usually is cast as the villainess because of her sharp features.-Early life:...
- JR Herrera
- Mel Kimura
- Hilda KoronelHilda KoronelSusan Reid, who is better known as Hilda Koronel , is a FAMAS and Gaward Urian Award winning Filipina actress...
- Ronnie LazaroRonnie LazaroRonnie Lazaro is a Gawad Urian Award-winning Filipino film and television actor, producer and casting and art director.-Television:* 2011 Wansapanataym: Darmo Adarna ... Darako * 2011 Maalaala Mo Kaya ... Papa...
- Anna Marin
- Aya Medel
- Corrine Mendez
- Felindo Obach
- Dominic OchoaDominic OchoaDominic Ochoa Dominic Ochoa Dominic Ochoa (born Jose Dominic Madrigal Ochoa on August 4, 1974 is a Filipino actor. Ochoa is a member of ABS CBN's circle of homegrown talents named Star Magic, as part of the batch 4.-Personal life:...
- Suzette RanilloSuzette RanilloSuzette Ranillo, started at the age of 12 as an actress. She is well known for her awards and successes in film, television and theater.Born in Cebu City, Philippines to actors' Mat Ranillo Jr. and Gloria Sevilla...
- CJ Ramos
- Dimples RomanaDimples RomanaDimples Romana is a Filipina actress and commercial model.-Education:Romana finished an International Hospitality Management Major in Culinary Arts at Enderun College.-Career:...
- Stella Ruiz
Movie
After the television series ended both successful TV Series Mula Sa PusoMula Sa Puso
Mula Sa Puso is a Filipino television series originally aired by ABS-CBN from March 10, 1997 to April 2, 1999. Claudine Barretto, Rico Yan, and Diether Ocampo played the role of the main protagonists in the series. It was re-aired in 2008 through Studio 23 and Kapamilya Channel, which are both an...
and Esperanza ended up with successful finales and their own movies the 1999 film finishes up where the TV finale left off and chronicles with another triggering ending and opens up with the beginning of the lives of the characters the film was distributed to home video in 2000.
International release
Even as the show was still airing on ABS-CBN, the management confirmed that there were foreign buyers of the soap opera and was to be translated to different foreign languages. It is slated to air in different foreign TV Channels, having the international title Esperanza after the original run on its mother network.| Country/Region | Network(s) | Series premiere | Series Title in Country |
|---|---|---|---|
 PhilippinesPhilippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... |
ABS-CBN ABS-CBN ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ... |
February 17, 1997 | Esperanza |
 MexicoMexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of... |
Canal de las Estrellas Canal de las Estrellas Canal de las Estrellas is one of the cornerstone networks of Televisa, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TV in Mexico City. Many of the programs of Canal de las Estrellas are seen in the United States on Univision, Telefutura, and Galavisión... |
April 14, 1997 | Esperanza |
 United StatesUnited States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
Syndication | June 2, 1997 | Esperanza |
Soundtrack
The theme song was sung by April Boy ReginoApril Boy Regino
Dennis "April Boy" Regino is a singer-songwriter from the Philippines. He is the oldest of three brothers, all of which are musicians. His brothers, Vingo and Jimmy, are members of the Novelty group April Boys. He migrated to the United States and is now based there as an entertainer to the...
for TV while the movie version was sung by Andre Ibara. The song was re-released in 2010 via 60 Years of Music of Philippine Soap Opera.
Lyrics
- Saan ba aabot ang 'yong pangarap
- Ano'ng naghihintay sa 'yong bukas
- Sa buhay mo kaya'y may araw pa na sisikat
- Upang tumanglaw sa iyong landas.
- Kayakap mo ngayo'y luha at hirap
- Mayro'ng ligaya ba'ng magaganap?
- Pag-asa ay hindi tuluyan na magwawakas
- Sasapit din ang tangi mong pangarap.
Koro:
- ESPERANZA, kahit pa kay bigat
- Ang pagsubok na nasa 'yong balikat
- Di maglalaon, araw mo ay sisikat
- Katotohanan ang magaganap ...ESPERANZA
- Repeat II
- Repeat Koro 2x