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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...

An original production, Tango Emoción, inspired by the Argentinean flavours of the dance genre, will take to the stage locally with an only performance on Friday 26 October at Kempinski Hotel San Lawrenz, as part of the 11th edition of Festival Mediterranea, organised by Teatru Astra. Tango Emoción,...

An original production, Tango Emoción, inspired by the Argentinian flavours of the dance genre, will be performed at the Kempinski Hotel San Lawrenz on October 26 as part of Festival Mediterranea organised by the Astra Theatre.The production, written by Romanian mezzo-soprano Oana Andra and premiered...

Malta International Airport is supporting this year’s edition of Festival Mediterranea, now in its 11th edition, produced by Teatru Astra. Festival Mediterranea is the only autumn festival on the island, with a month-long programme of events that opens with a double-representation of opera. This year,...