Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) is an opera in 3 acts by Felipe Padilla de León with libretto by Guillermo Tolentino.

[2][3] Felipe Padilla de León also wrote an opera based on Rizal's sequel to the novel: El filibusterismo (Subversion) in 1970.

The opera was premiered on 5 February 1957 at the Far Eastern University auditorium, with the Manila Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.

[8] More recently, it was performed in Chicago (2012), New York (2013), at the Kennedy Center at Washington D.C. (2014), at Richmond (2016), and at Boston (2017).

[9] Conductor: Felipe Padilla de León At the house of Kapitan Tiyago, a reception is held to celebrate the return of Crisostomo Ibarra after a 7-year stay in Europe.

Among the guests was Padre Damaso, who denounced the character of the Filipino people (Indio) derisively.

The sudden death of Ibarra's father continues to puzzle him, and the news of Maria Clara coming to the house mitigates his deep thoughts.

The guests move to the dining room as Maria Clara arrives to the scene accompanied by Tiya Isabel.

The act ends with Ibarra remembering that All Souls' Day is nearing, and leaves to pay respects to his late father.

This enraged Ibarra and the digger eventually told him that he had thrown the body to a river instead to the Chinese Cemetery.

Ibarra leaves enraged as Pilosopo Tasyo enters, happily waiting for the upcoming storm.

[11] Young people of San Diego were happily having a picnic by the shores of a lake to celebrate the return of Ibarra.

Kapitan Tiyago enters and announced in a woeful tone about Padre Damaso's order to break the engagement between Ibarra and Maria Clara, and instead making her marry with a young Spaniard named Alfonso Linares.

He instructs Basilio to build a pyre to burn his (Elias) body and her mother to ashes.