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Meet the cast of West Side Story

Meet the cast of West Side Story

In a flurry of anticipation and excitement, the much-anticipated cast for the upcoming production of West Side Story has been unveiled, promising to bring the timeless tale of love and...

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A night of intrigue with the La Stella Band

A night of intrigue with the La Stella Band

Get ready for a night of espionage, intrigue, and above all, timeless music as the La Stella Philharmonic Society proudly presents "The Best of James Bond", a one-of-a-kind concert event...

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Riveting Rigoletto in Gozo

Riveting Rigoletto in Gozo

MALTA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA MARCELLINE AGIUS, leader TEATRU ASTRA OPERA CHORUS in collaboration with the CORO LIRICO SICILIANO With the support of GOZO CULTURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME ARTS COUNCIL MALTA MINISTRY FOR GOZO BANK OF VALLETTA p.l.c. JOHN GALEA,...

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Stellar Cast for Teatru Astra's Rigoletto

Stellar Cast for Teatru Astra's Rigoletto

Teatru Astra is proud to announce its stellar cast for the upcoming production of Verdi's Rigoletto, promising to bring to life on stage an unforgettable experience brimming with passion, drama,...

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Joseph Vella's opera to be premiered at Teatru Astra

Joseph Vella's opera to be premiered at Teatru Astra

Teatru Astra is proud to announce a collaboration with Festivals Malta in the production and premiere of Joseph Vella's 'Valeriana' next May. Vella, who passed away in 2018 leaving the opera,...

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Teatru Astra announces the opera Giovanna d'Arco for October 2024

Teatru Astra announces the opera Giovanna d'Arco for October 2024

Of battles and victories...breakthroughs and primacy. Teatru Astra looks forward to the long-awaited return of a rare Verdi opera in October 2024. Giovanna d'Arco will make its triumphant return to...

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Verdi's distinguished opera returning to Teatru Astra

Verdi's distinguished opera returning to Teatru Astra

Rigoletto: Verdi's distinguished three act opera composed in forty days in 1851. Based on Francesco Maria Piave's libretto after Hugo's Le Roi s'Amuse, it premiered at La Fenice in Venice...

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Welcome to "Feel the Magic of Opera Favourites"!

Welcome to

This enchanting event is for all those who crave the drama, passion, and intensity of opera. Come witness the power of the human voice as it reverberates through the hall,...

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Teatru Astra proudly welcomes the all time favourite musical The Sound of Music on its stage

Teatru Astra proudly welcomes the all time favourite musical The Sound of Music on its stage

The Broadway musical, famously inspired the 1965 film following the success of the Trapp Family Singers through their concerts and tours throughout the United States. Various publishers sought to convince...

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Alexia Micallef wins the fourth edition of Kantamagħna Festival

Alexia Micallef wins the fourth edition of Kantamagħna Festival

On Saturday 21st January 2023, DCapitals Big Band presented the 4th edition of Kantamagħna - A Singers' Festival at the Teatru Astra in Victoria. 24 singers participated in the festival...

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Main roles for Astra’s Sound of Musical announced

Main roles for Astra’s Sound of Musical announced

Teatru Astra is proud to announce the main roles for the ever popular Rodgers - Hammerstein musical: The Sound of Music. Based on the 1949 memoir of Maria Von Trapp and...

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First ever Pantomime in Gozo at Teatru Astra

First ever Pantomime in Gozo at Teatru Astra

For the first time in panto history, this Christmas, FM Theatre Productions are bringing panto to the Teatru Astra in Gozo from the 26 to the 30 of December. This year,...

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Gozo's favourite Autumn Festival is back

Gozo's favourite Autumn Festival is back

Autumn in Gozo is an attractive proposition, but the jewel in its crown is certainly Festival Mediterranea, the cultural apotheosis that every year - pandemics excluded - enthrals locals and...

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Top flamenco and ballet talent to feature in Astra's Carmen

Top flamenco and ballet talent to feature in Astra's Carmen

Productions of Bizet's Carmen and flamenco have been closely associated with each other for over a Century. The gypsy protagonist is often depicted as a flamenco performer herself, and it...

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Star-studded cast for Bizet's Carmen at Teatru Astra

Star-studded cast for Bizet's Carmen at Teatru Astra

Georges Bizet's opera highlights two character types: the femme fatale, and the sentimental heroine. Carmen, the beautiful yet daring and elusive gypsy who seduces Don Jose is the former, opposed...

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An engaging, dramatic, and masterfully orchestrated masterpiece

An engaging, dramatic, and masterfully orchestrated masterpiece

By 1875, Georges Bizet's reputation was firmly established, and thus he opened his latest work, Carmen, at the Opera Comique with all due justifiable confidence. His subject: a rebellious tobacco...

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Pantomime at the Astra

Pantomime at the Astra

FM Theatre Productions & Teatru Astra proudly present - Jack and The Beanstalk - A Rock 'n Roll Panto at Teatru Astra this Christmas! This is not only a Panto...

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BREAKING NEWS! Auditions announced for the next Teatru Astra Musical - the classic family show THE SOUND OF MUSIC

BREAKING NEWS! Auditions announced for the next Teatru Astra Musical - the classic family show THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Teatru Astra is proud to announce its 6th thrilling musical: THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Set against the terrifying rise of the Third Reich and based on the true story of...

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Opera returns to Gozo

Opera returns to Gozo

Teatru Astra is steadfastly progressing in its preparations to produce Bizet's masterpiece; Carmen, on the 27th and 29th October 2022. A young soldier, Don Jose, intends to marry Micaela, however upon...

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Gozo's rock concert by the La Stella Band

Gozo's rock concert by the La Stella Band

The La Stella Band will once again rock the city on June 4th 2022. Gozo's capital, La Stella's home, will proudly host its musicians in the former's main square for...

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Gozo's identity viewed in contemporary art project

Gozo's identity viewed in contemporary art project

The project Identity of an Island - Gozo: Art between Past and Present, currently reaching its final stages, aims to wed contemporary art and art history to the identity of...

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Opera Carmen being postponed again, to October 2022

Opera Carmen being postponed again, to October 2022

Teatru Astra wishes to inform its esteemed patrons that the opera Carmen, which was last year rescheduled to October 2021 is yet again being postponed, now to the 27 and...

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Teatru Astra constructs new set for an opera in Sicily

Teatru Astra constructs new set for an opera in Sicily

Teatru Astra, in Victoria, Gozo, is currently involved in the production of the scenography for Pietro Mascagani's Cavelleria Rusticana which will be produced by Coro Lirico Siciliano. In a few...

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Carmen postponed to October 2021

Carmen postponed to October 2021

Following a lengthy review of the unfolding situation driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, and after holding the necessary consultations with the authorities, Teatru Astra has reached the decision to postpone...

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The MPO premieres Sinfonia Domestica

The MPO premieres Sinfonia Domestica

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra shall be performing Richard Strauss' masterpiece Sinfonia Domestica for the first time in Malta on Saturday 8 February at 7.30 pm at Teatru Astra in Gozo. Although...

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A family rock orchestral Christmas show with a difference

A family rock orchestral Christmas show with a difference

Following a hugely successful night with the rock orchestral concerts of "QUEEN meets COLDPLAY" and "Not Just ... The WALL", The Gozo Youth Orchestra and 7SPP, with the support of...

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The La Stella Band's Grand Concert at Teatru Astra

The La Stella Band's Grand Concert at Teatru Astra

The La Stella Philharmonic Society, will once again be holding its acclaimed seasonal appointment, presenting its stalwart audiences with some of the most relished symphonic pieces in the classical repertoire;...

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Welcome to the Teatru Astra's 18th edition of Festival Mediterranea

Welcome to the Teatru Astra's 18th edition of Festival Mediterranea

Victoria is gearing up for a highly charged cultural week - animated by Teatru Astra's 18th edition of Festival Mediterranea. Kicking off the cultural extravaganza will be Francis James Camilleri's pianoforte...

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Gozo's Festival Mediterranea and Il Trovatore 2019 officially launched

Gozo's Festival Mediterranea and Il Trovatore 2019 officially launched

Teatru Astra and Bank of Valletta officially launched the 18th edition of Festival Mediterranea, Gozo's main autumn festival, which annually features a double operatic production and an array of other...

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An extraordinary cast for Astra's Il Trovatore

An extraordinary cast for Astra's Il Trovatore

Il Trovatore has it all - a brave hero, a selfless heroine, a sinister villain and four acts brimming with gloriously passionate music. Verdi's score also contains some of the best-loved...

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John Galea assumes the role of Astra's opera conductor

John Galea assumes the role of Astra's opera conductor

Conductor John Galea assumes the role of resident conductor of Opera at Teatru Astra and Artistic Director of Festival Mediterranea as from this year. Although he is no newcomer to...

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Teatru Astra announces CARMEN for 2020

Teatru Astra announces CARMEN for 2020

Teatru Astra's offering for the 2020 Opera month will feature Bizet's captivating masterpiece of passion, jealousy and betrayal - Carmen. It has been said that the world of opera has...

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Sister Act at Teatru Astra

Sister Act at Teatru Astra

Teatru Astra proudly presents its fifth consecutive live musical. This season, Astra is planning to continue the diversification of its genres and repertoire, through the choice of 'Sister Act', a...

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Mariella Spiteri Cefai appointed as the new opera chorus leader at Teatru Astra

Mariella Spiteri Cefai appointed as the new opera chorus leader at Teatru Astra

Teatru Astra has recently appointed Ms Mariella Spiteri Cefai as its new opera chorus leader. Mariella, a well-known personality in the local music circles, has been actively involved in a...

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It may be 50 years old, but this technicolour dreamcoat is still in fashion: Out of the wardrobe

It may be 50 years old, but this technicolour dreamcoat is still in fashion: Out of the wardrobe

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is being staged at the Astra Theatre next week. Jennifer Grech speaks to artistic director Chris Gatt. Originally released...

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The Teatru Astra Musical is back!

The Teatru Astra Musical is back!

And this year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. It seems like only yesterday when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice collaborated on the...

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Teatru Astra announces the third show of the musical JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

Teatru Astra announces the third show of the musical JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

Following a significant demand for tickets - underlining the local audience's keen interest in Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical - Teatru Astra has just announced an extra show on Friday...

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‘Il Trovatore’ to make a triumphant return to the Teatru Astra!

‘Il Trovatore’ to make a triumphant return to the Teatru Astra!

Verdi's 1853 spellbinder of Opera's Golden Age to rank with the rosiest of recollections of recent glories at the Teatru Astra. This throwback to the golden age of opera is a...

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A very touching Traviata

A very touching Traviata

The brief opera spell in Gozo came to an end with the performances of Verdi's La Traviata at the Astra Opera House. Under review here is the second and final...

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Christmas Rocks the Astra 2018 - A family rock orchestral Christmas show with a difference

Christmas Rocks the Astra 2018 - A family rock orchestral Christmas show with a difference

Following a hugely successful night in the MCC, on Friday 30th November, with the rock orchestral "QUEEN meets COLDPLAY". The Gozo Youth Orchestra and 7SPP, with the support of Festivals...

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BOV supports Teatru Astra's 50th anniversary opera production and Gozo's Festival Mediterranea

BOV supports Teatru Astra's 50th anniversary opera production and Gozo's Festival Mediterranea

The 17th edition of Festival Mediterranea was officially launched by Teatru Astra and Bank of Valletta, during a press conference held at BOV's head office in Santa Venera on Tuesday...

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Top cast for Verdi’s top opera La Traviata

Top cast for Verdi’s top opera La Traviata

Love, like Art, is inherently dangerous. Is this not what 'La Traviata' is all about? Well that's what the lavish new production which is being set on at the Teatru...

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Discover the 2018 Programme of events

Discover the 2018 Programme of events

Teatru Astra is please to roll out the programme of events for this year's Festival Mediterranea - the seventeenth edition! The double representation of La Traviata on the 25 and...

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Teatru Astra's 50 th anniversary opera

Teatru Astra's 50 th anniversary opera

Teatru Astra has just announced the main roles for it's upcoming 50th anniversary opera production, La Traviata. Gozo's own Miriam Cauchi will interpret Violetta. Giulio Pelligra who wooed audiences in...

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The ever-popular Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat set for the Astra

The ever-popular Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat set for the Astra

Teatru Astra is proud to announce its fourth consecutive musical – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Retelling the Biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colours, this...

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Spoil your mum this Mother's Day. She deserves it!

Spoil your mum this Mother's Day. She deserves it!

The best Mother's Day gifts are those she least expects and, in fact, that's what makes them special. When your mum has everything, it can be quite tough to think...

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Happy 50th birthday Teatru Astra

Happy 50th birthday Teatru Astra

Teatru Astra is celebrating the 50th anniversary since its official inauguration as the prime cultural complex on the island on January 20, 1968. The high expectations have not only been met...

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London based director closely associated with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to lead Jesus Christ Superstar at Teatru Astra

London based director closely associated with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to lead Jesus Christ Superstar at Teatru Astra

On Monday morning, Teatru Astra formally presented Hugh Wooldridge - an international director who will be leading the musical Jesus Christ Superstar at Teatru Astra. The official presentation was held...

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Soċji 2018 – Friends of Teatru Astra

Soċji 2018 – Friends of Teatru Astra

The La Stella Philharmonic Society has just launched its membership scheme as part of the golden anniversary of Teatru Astra since it first opened its doors in 1968. Becoming a...

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La Stella Band's Grand Concert at Teatru Astra

La Stella Band's Grand Concert at Teatru Astra

After a stream of six weeks of continuous cultural events, Festival Mediterranea is heading towards its end. Reaching its peak with the much lauded production of Donizetti's masterpiece 'Lucia di...

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La Traviata: the 2018 operatic highlight marking Astra's 50th anniversary celebrations

La Traviata: the 2018 operatic highlight marking Astra's 50th anniversary celebrations

Love knocks unbidden: the result is La Traviata! Gabriele D'Annunzio's telegraphic phrase about Verdi, "colui che pianse ed amò per tutti" (he wept and loved for all), sums up in a...

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Catching up with Marvic Monreal

Catching up with Marvic Monreal

We caught up with mezzo-soprano Marvic Monreal, to give us an insight into her career and her participation in Teatru Astra's Lucia di Lamermoor. Welcome to the Astra. We're absolutely delighted...

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Opera weekend in Gozo

Opera weekend in Gozo

The very last preparations are underway for the curtain to rise on Festival Mediterranea 2017 - the sixteenth edition of this annual celebration of high culture that again turns all...

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Teatru Manoel and Teatru Astra partner in an opera workshop ahead of Lucia di Lammermoor

Teatru Manoel and Teatru Astra partner in an opera workshop ahead of Lucia di Lammermoor

Teatru Astra has just announced its latest educational initiative, 'Behind the Opera Curtain', a free workshop featuring the artistic and music directors from Teatru Astra's forthcoming production of Lucia di...

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Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor raises the curtain on the 50th anniversary celebrations of Teatru Astra

Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor raises the curtain on the 50th anniversary celebrations of Teatru Astra

This October, Teatru Astra will be organizing the 16th edition of Festival Mediterranea. The highlight will be the tragic opera in three acts Lucia di Lammermoor that returns to the...

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Outstanding cast for Lucia at the Astra

Outstanding cast for Lucia at the Astra

Teatru Astra is proud to announce a top tier cast for the upcoming Donizetti's all-time favourite Lucia di Lamermoor. Lucia will be interpreted by Serenad Uyar whose outstanding rich-timbered voice,...

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Jesus Christ Superstar at Teatru Astra

Jesus Christ Superstar at Teatru Astra

Teatru Astra is proud to announce the musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar' for March 2018 – a highlight in the 50th anniversary celebrations of Teatru Astra. The theatre opened up its...

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Teatru Astra offers opportunity to be part of Lucia di Lammermoor

Teatru Astra offers opportunity to be part of Lucia di Lammermoor

In preparation for the production of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor on the 26 and 28 October 2017, Teatru Astra is extending an invitation to all those who may be...

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Donizetti's all-time favourite at the Teatru Astra

Donizetti's all-time favourite at the Teatru Astra

Lucia di Lamermoor is making a very welcome and much awaited for return to the Teatru Astra boards after almost 30 years. One of the flagships of the bel canto...

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Hundreds of people expected in Gozo for EVITA in a month's time

Hundreds of people expected in Gozo for EVITA in a month's time

Teatru Astra has announced further details about its forthcoming musical Evita, including an added third show on Sunday 2 April - following unprecedented demand for tickets - underlining the local...

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Top cast for Evita at Teatru Astra

Top cast for Evita at Teatru Astra

Teatru Astra has announced the principal cast for the upcoming musical Evita scheduled for this March. Evita follows the tour-de-force experience in Grease last April - the first ever-live musical...

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The ideal gift this Christmas

The ideal gift this Christmas

The Teatru Astra is pleased to announce that during this festive season it is offering its esteemed patrons a 15% discount on a selected number of tickets for the forthcoming...

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Astra's super lavish Aida

Astra's super lavish Aida

Less than a fortnight after having enjoyed Carmen at the Aurora Opera House, I was back just up the road for the first of two performances of Astra Opera House's...

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The La Stella Band in concert

The La Stella Band in concert

The Annual Grand Symphonic Concert by La Stella Philharmonic, scheduled for Saturday 19th November, will bring to a fitting end the fifteenth successful edition of Festival Mediterranea. The concert, which...

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Aida - Celeste indeed!

Aida - Celeste indeed!

The signs were all there. It was more than obvious that with such a gilt-edged cast, a choral mass of singular distinction, an artistic director with a flair for innovation,...

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Aida - Director's Notes

Aida - Director's Notes

A premise: As everyone knows, Verdi never set foot in Egypt. The handsome commission to the tune of 150.000 francs, a considerable sum in those days, by the Regent Ismail...

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Opera weekend at Teatru Astra

Opera weekend at Teatru Astra

This weekend, Teatru Astra showcases the highlight of its artistic calendar, with two performances of Verdi's grand opera Aida on Thursday 27th and Saturday 29th October. This will be the...

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Students' Scheme for Aida at the Teatru Astra

Students' Scheme for Aida at the Teatru Astra

It is common knowledge that the production of opera at Gozo's Teatru Astra enjoys a well-established tradition of excellence, with the engagement of an internationally renowned cast, a fantastic opera...

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Teatru Astra announces the opera Lucia di Lammermoor for 2017

Teatru Astra announces the opera Lucia di Lammermoor for 2017

Teatru Astra proudly announces the opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor, a tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti on the 26 and 28 October 2017. The opera was...

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Teatru Manoel and Teatru Astra partner in an opera workshop ahead of AIDA

Teatru Manoel and Teatru Astra partner in an opera workshop ahead of AIDA

Teatru Astra has just announced its latest educational initiative, 'Behind the Opera Curtain', a free workshop featuring the artistic and music directors from Teatru Astra's forthcoming production of AIDA. Aimed...

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Teatru Astra and Bank of Valletta officially launch the opera AIDA, the highlight of Gozo's Autumn Festival

Teatru Astra and Bank of Valletta officially launch the opera AIDA, the highlight of Gozo's Autumn Festival

Teatru Astra, with the support of Bank of Valletta, is proud to announce the fifteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea, a series of cultural events to be held in Gozo between...

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Luxury cast for Aida at the Teatru Astra

Luxury cast for Aida at the Teatru Astra

Carlo Colombara's deep authoritative bass will deliver the opening gambit to what promises to be an outstanding Aida at the Teatru Astra. The Teatru Astra management is justifiably proud to...

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La Stella's player soloist in the Independence Day Concert

La Stella's player soloist in the Independence Day Concert

The La Stella Philharmonic Society would like to congratulate Mr. George Camilleri, one of its leading bandsman, on his appointment as a soloist in the Independence Day Concert organised by...

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Teatru Astra launches new online booking portal

Teatru Astra launches new online booking portal

Two months away from the production of Verdi’s AIDA, preparations are underway for the curtain to rise on the 15th edition of Festival Mediterranea, an annual celebration of high culture...

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Teatru Astra to stage its third AIDA in October

Teatru Astra to stage its third AIDA in October

Teatru Astra has come to mean living up to its promises, delivering opera productions with excellent weight and scale and yet all the delicacy required. A completely new production of...

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Teatru Astra offers opportunity to be part of AIDA

Teatru Astra offers opportunity to be part of AIDA

In preparation for the production of the opera AIDA on the 27 and 29 October 2016, Teatru Astra is extending an invitation to all those who may be interested in...

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Booking open for Aida at Teatru Astra

Booking open for Aida at Teatru Astra

Teatru Astra is proud to announce that booking for its forthcoming opera is now open. Following last year's spectacular production of La Boheme, a direct hit with opera aficionados, Teatru Astra...

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The Annual Grand Concert...and more..

The Annual Grand Concert...and more..

Following the two full-house performances of Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme and the first cultural events of the fourteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea, the Teatru Astra now looks forward to further...

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La Bohème – Aglow with Feeling

La Bohème – Aglow with Feeling

La Bohème staged at Teatru Astra sported a wealth of colour and detail combining elements of period and modern style to field a crowning triumph. It was indeed a beautiful,...

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Performance of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

Performance of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

Oscar Wilde's celebrated work De Profundis will be staged for first time in Malta on November 14 at 7.30pm at the Astra Theatre, Victoria, as part of the Festival Mediterranea. Written...

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Ecclesiastical art discoveries talk

Ecclesiastical art discoveries talk

'Design and Decoration for Ecclesiastical Gozo 1800-1900: Recent Important Discoveries' is the title of a talk to be given by Mark Sagona on Friday at 7pm at the Gozo Ministry...

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Teatru Astra announces AIDA for 2016

Teatru Astra announces AIDA for 2016

Any way you look at it, Aida is peerless in Italian melodrama. All the great ingredients which make up Italian Opera are there: grandeur and intimacy; poignancy and implacability; vengeance...

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La Boheme - few more tickets out for grabs!

La Boheme - few more tickets out for grabs!

The Teatru Astra is pleased to announce that Puccini's La Boheme is once again living up to its reputation as a number one favorite with audiences world-wide. With a formidable...

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Overwhelming response for the Opera Workshop ahead of Gozo’s La Boheme

Overwhelming response for the Opera Workshop ahead of Gozo’s  La Boheme

Teatru Astra, in collaboration with Bank of Valletta, organised an opera workshop themed Behind The Opera Curtain, ahead of its forthcoming La Boheme. The session, which was held on Tuesday...

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Teatru Astra and Bank of Valletta launch Gozo’s Autumn Festival and La Boheme

Teatru Astra and Bank of Valletta launch Gozo’s Autumn Festival and La Boheme

Teatru Astra, with the support of Bank of Valletta, is proud to announce the fourteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea, a series of cultural events to be held in Gozo between...

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Teatru Manoel and Teatru Astra partner in an opera workshop

Teatru Manoel and Teatru Astra partner in an opera workshop

  Teatru Astra has just announced its latest educational initiative, 'Behind the Opera Curtain', a free workshop with directors and soloists from Teatru Astra’s forthcoming production of La Boheme. Aimed at...

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Students’ Scheme for La Boheme at the Teatru Astra

Students’ Scheme for La Boheme at the Teatru Astra

It is common knowledge that the production of opera at Gozo’s Teatru Astra enjoys a well-established tradition of excellence, with the engagement of an internationally renowned cast, a fantastic opera...

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Teatru Astra announces cast for La Boheme

Teatru Astra announces cast for La Boheme

Opera at the Teatru Astra is an integral artistic experience.   Spearheaded by conductor Joseph Vella and stage director Enrico Stinchelli, Teatru Astra has fielded year in year out, refreshing and compelling...

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All about beautiful singing

All about beautiful singing

The Malta Independent on Sunday's second issue of 'Encore', an arts and culture magazine published on Sunday 30 August 2015, featured prominently the opera at Teatru Astra, in an interview...

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Miriam Cauchi for La Bohème at Teatru Astra

Miriam Cauchi for La Bohème at Teatru Astra

We are reproducing an interview Dr Maria Frendo, chorus mistress at Teatru Astra held with Miriam Cauchi, who will be interpreting the role of Mimí in Teatru Astra's forthcoming opera, La Bohème...

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Nabucco making the news, in Italy

Nabucco making the news, in Italy

Teatru Astra's Nabucco is still making headlines, now in Italy.  We are reproducting below a review of the production of the 1st and 3rd January 2015 held in Rimini, the...

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National station to air Nabucco

National station to air Nabucco

Following an agreement signed between Teatru Astra and the Public Broadcasting Authority (PBS) earlier in October 2014, it has been recently announced that PBS will air Teatru Astra's most recent...

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Teatru Astra’s Nabucco Set travels to Italy

Teatru Astra’s Nabucco Set travels to Italy

Teatru Astra is proud to announce another breakthrough within the ambit of its opera productions; a new ambitious endeavour in an international collaboration - arguably the first of its kind...

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A memorable operatic experience

A memorable operatic experience

The Sunday Times of Malta of the 23 November carried another glowing review following the production of Nabucco on 23 and 25 October 2013. The piece by Albert G Storace...

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Nabucco revisited

Nabucco revisited

This website is reproducing below a review penned by Cecilia Xuereb which was published on The Malta Independent on Sunday 16 November 2014. Exactly 20 years after their first performance of...

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Drama at Teatru Astra draws to an end a successful thirteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea.

Drama at Teatru Astra draws to an end a successful thirteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea.

Festival Mediterranea, which is being orgainsed in Gozo by Teatru Astra ends on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November, with a double representation of John Patrick Shanley’s drama, Doubt. Doubt, A...

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The best of Nabucco in pictures

The best of Nabucco in pictures

The Opera Productions page of this website has been updated with the photo gallery of the Nabucco, the latest opera held at Teatru Astra on the 23 and 25 October...

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The La Stella Band in concert

The La Stella Band in concert

A further highlight of the thirteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea, which is currently underway, is the Annual Grand Symphonic Concert by La Stella Philharmonic. The concert, which starts at 7.30pm,...

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SPETTACOLO NELLO SPETTACOLO

SPETTACOLO NELLO SPETTACOLO

We are reproducing below a review on Teatru Astra's Nabucco, performed on Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 October, penned by Marta Cutugno, an opera critic from Italy which was published on...

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VIVA NABUCCO!

VIVA NABUCCO!

  It was the real thing: from the peaks of pride to the lowlands of humiliation: only to rise up again clad in the mantle of grace: Viva  Nabucco indeed.  Nabucco...

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