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Teatru Astra proudly announces the cast for the two performances of Verdi's Nabucco on Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 October 2014. It will be exactly 20 years after it was performed at the same theatre that a new and exciting production will be put on at the Astra with a formidable cast leading the way. As...

The Sunday Times of Malta of 17 November 2013 publishes a letter from Denise Gallandat-Di Grazia from Arcondiel in Switzerland. The letter which is full of praise for Teatru Astra's recent Otello is being reproduced in full below. I have been organising trips aimed at opera lovers for more than 10 years,...

Festival Mediterranea's Mattia Preti tour which took place last Saturday 9 November received an excellent review on the Malta Independent on Sunday of the 10 November. The article was penned by Editor Noel Grima who attend the tour which was led by Mark Sagona. The full piece is being reproduced below. Mattia...

The Opera Productions page of this website has been updated with the photo gallery of the Otello, the latest opera held at Teatru Astra on the 24 and 26 October - during the twelfth edition of Festival Mediterranea. Otello which was conducted by Prof Joseph Vella and directed by Italian director Enrico...

The twelfth edition of Festival Mediterranea comes to a close on Saturday 16 November with the Annual Grand Symphonic Concert by La Stella Philharmonic. The concert, which starts at 7.30pm, will be held at Teatru Astra. Entrance to the event is free of charge. The symphonic concert brings together a...

To mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great Calabrian artist Mattia Preti (1613-99), the organizers of the Mediterranea Festival, now in its 12th edition, have invited artist and art historian Mark Sagona, who is also a Ph.D. candidate and visiting lecturer in the Department of History of...

Teatru Astra has just launched the Friends of the Teatru Astra. For an annual subscription of €20 the members of the group will receive a copy of the DVD of the opera amongst other benefits. Being part and parcel of a voluntary organization, the Socjeta' Filarmonika La Stella, the Teatru Astra depends...

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...