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On Saturday morning Teatru Astra welcomed Prime Minster Dr Lawrence Gonzi who visited the theatre and met the committee and volunteers in the run-up to the double production of Norma which kick-starts the tenth edition of Festival Mediterranea on 27 October 2011. The Prime Minister and his entourage...

Italian tenor Antonino Interisano will be making a welcome return to Teatru Astra to sing the part of Pollione in the Norma on Thursday 27 and Satruday 29 October 2011. Antonino who is no-new comer to the patrons of the Teatru Astra was the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto (Teatru Astra, 2009) and...

Following the offical launch of the tenth edition of Festival Mediterranea at the Bank of Valletta operations centre in Malta earlier this last week, the local media reported extensivley the first of a series of media releases that Teatru Astra is planning in the run up to the festiva,l which kick starts...

Preparations are running in full swing by the La Stella Band ahead of its annual musical highlight – the Grand Concert which will bring to an end the tenth edition of Festival Mediterranea on 19 November 2011.The band resumed its rehearsals at the Giuseppe Giardini Hall at the La Stella Band Club three...

Teatru Astra, in collaboration with Bank of Valletta, launched the tenth edition of the Festival Mediterranea, a month long celebration of Art and Culture in the heart of Gozo. This year’s festival, presenting a programme of varied cultural events, from opera to food and wine, will be held between the...

Major refurbishment works on the stage of Teatru Astra have been concluded in the past days. The works, which were partly sponsored by an Eco-Gozo project financed by the Ministry for Gozo, involved the re-alignment of the wooden stage, the upgrade of storage back stage facilities and further improvements...

The newly revampled Let's Gozo magazine, published by the Gozo Tourisim Association and which was circulated with the Sunday Times of Malta of 18 September 2011, carries out an extensive feature on Gozo's opera houses and the forthcoming opera at Teatru Astra, arguably, one of the most glamorous nights...

Teatru Astra has teamed up with Action in an effort to consolidate it’s ticketing selling and distribution system ahead of the forthcoming Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma scheduled on the 27 and 29 October and Festival Mediterranea which runs until the 19 of November. Action is a Maltese internet-based repository...

Teatru Astra has recently published an information booklet which is a comprehensive guide to the Festival. The tenth edition of the festival kicks off on Thursday 29 October with the premier of Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma and ends in style with the Annual Grand concert of the La Stella Band on the 19th...

The Art and Entertainment section in today’s Times of Malta reports extensively on Teatru Astra’s engagement of Dimitra Theodossiou for Norma. The feature is carried also on the online portal of the news paper. Ms Theodossiou is a world-class soprano who will be singing for the first time in Malta....