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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 over a period of three months in 1897 towards the end of Wilde's prison term, the work comprises a 50,000-word letter...

'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 conference hall, Victoria. The talk, being held as part of Festival Mediterranea 2015, analyses the artistic significance of...

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 and redemption; love and envy.It is indeed the triumph of Woman.There is perhaps no better way to put it. Aida...

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 cast which is spearheading the great team at the Teatru Astra the odds are staked heavily in favor of another packed house on...

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 the 20th of October at the Teatru Manoel Studio Theatre in Valletta, featured the main protagonists in this year’s...

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 the 20th of October and 6th of December 2015. This year's festival was officially launched during a press conference addressed...

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 opera lovers, singers and students, the workshop will be held at the Teatru Manoel’s Studio Theatre...

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 chorus, imposing sets and scenery, outstanding costumes and spectacular lights. There is a strong educational...

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 opera productions which grace the finest and most prestigious boards anywhere in the world....

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 carried with Mr Michael Formosa, Festival Mediterranea's Chairman. The piece is being reproduced in full below. La...