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At the Teatru Astra you get what you are promised: a vocal and scenic spectacular was promised and that’s exactly what the overawed patrons who packed the superbly acoustically endowed auditorium got and more…Indeed Otello courts superlatives….larger than life, multi-dimensional tragedy engineered by...

Teatru Astra announces that this evening's first night of Otello is sold out. Only few seats remaining for Saturday’s show. Teatru Astra marks this as another milestone which follows 2012's Madama Butterfly sell out. Yesterday Teatru Astra announced it will be staging up Nabucco in October 2014. Booking...

Teatru Astra proudly announces Giuseppe Verdi’s immortal Nabucco as the highlight of Festival Mediterranea 2014. This production will see Nabucco being staged at the Astra after an absence of twenty years. It was last performed in our theatre in 1994, a production that was a resounding success with both...

A weekend of vintage delights in Gozo kicks off this Thursday with what promises to be a scenic and vocal spectacular: Verdi’s superb Otello. With a titanic Badri Maisuradze’ in the title role, this new production will definitely be a very high point indeed in the local opera milieu. Patrons are in for...

Teatru Astra is proud to announce the participation of leading Maltese soprano Miriam Cauchi in the forthcoming production of Verdi’s Otello on Thursday 24 and Saturday 26 October. This will be Ms Cauchi’s seventh appearance on Teatru Astra’s stage, after highly successful performances of Oscar (Ballo...

ACT I. Cyprus, late fifteenth century. The Moor Otello, governor of the island and a general in the Venetian army, arrives in port as a tempest rages. Iago, Otello's ensign, confers with Roderigo, a fop who has come to Cyprus because of his unrequited love for Desdemona, a Venetian beauty recently married...

Take a view of the programme of events of the forthcoming Festival Mediterranea which has several concerts lined up ranging from chamber to symphonic, drama, as well as lectures and on-site visits, covering the period of Knights’ of St John’s and celebrating masterpieces on the island.. The Annual Grand...

Shakespeare wrote his tragedy Othello in 1603 and it ranks among the Bard’s finest works in the genre. Although the play is more than five centuries old, its themes of love and hatred, trust and betrayal, life and death are ones that man is still struggling to cope with today; ones that elude understanding...

Now in its 12th edition, Festival Mediterranea, with the support of Bank of Valletta, will be presenting Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" as the highlight of this Gozitan cultural collaboration. This year’s festival was officially launched during a press conference which was addressed by Charles Borg,...

Otello's stage director interviewed on the Sunday Times The Sunday Times of Malta of 6 October carried an interview with Enrcio Stinchelli ahead of the forthcoming production of Otello at the Teatru Astra. We are reproducing in full the piece as published in paper. Enrico Stinchelli was speaking to Maria...