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M. Rózsa (1907 – 1995) Quo Vadis? (Sound Track)Film music is a genre that is attractive as it is elusive to articulate and describe verbally. Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa is well-known for his wonderful music that he composed as sound tracks for such epics as Ben Hur, Julius Caesar and many many...

New composition to be premièred during the concert The eleventh edition of Festival Mediterranea comes to a close on Saturday 17 November with the Annual Grand Symphonic Concert by La Stella Philharmonic Band (AD 1863), during which a local composition will be premièred. The concert, which starts at...

The eleventh edition of Festival Mediterranea is on again this Saturday (10 November) with an onsite lecture will focus on the art of Malta's greatest artist at the turn of the 20th century, through a selection of works in the churches of Gozo. The lecture will discuss the nature of Calì's art and the...

Teatru Astra rejoices in the news that the internationally acclaimed tenor Joseph Calleja has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Malta. Tenor Joseph Calleja, one of the world’s finest opera singers and the cultural ambassador for the country, made his professional debut at Teatru Astra,...

We are uploading the review by Albert G. Storace which was published on the Times of Malta on Wednesday 31 October 2012 Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the most famous case of a notorious first-night flop achieving immortality. Its popularity has never waned since its relaunching in a revised version...

The festival committee would wish to inform the public that tomorrow's lecture Society and the Economy on the Hospitaller Island of Malta will be held at Aula Mgr Guiseppe Farrugia, St George's Basilica, not at the Banca Guiratale, as announced previously. The lecture will be delivered by leading historian...

Madama Butterfly either soars or sinks. At the Teatru Astra, packed to the rafters, Madama Butterfly started at the top and worked its way upwards…As old-age wisdom goes: something is good if all its parts are good. If ever this maxim ever needed confirmation, it was all there in this splendid production:...

Teatru Astra announces that it will open its theatre season 2013/2014 with Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" on 24 and 26th October 2013, next year being the composer's 200th anniversary from his birth. The opera will be staged once again in Gozo after 10 years. It was the last opera to be performed at...

Festival Mediterreanea, organised by the Astra Theatre, will open this week with the double representation of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly on Thursday and Saturday and an evening of Argentinian tango on Friday.The festival, which will run until November 17, will include other events to be...

Gozo Channel has just announced it will be rescheduling two trips to coincide with the performances of “Madama Butterfly” being staged at the Teatru Astra on Thursday and Saturday (25th and 27th October respectively). As a result the 23:30 trip from Mgarr will be leaving the Gozo harbour at midnight...