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As the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea, organised by Teatru Astra, gets underway focus shifts to our unparalleled prehistoric heritage during five days with a number of events taking place in Malta and Gozo. Events once again see the participation of leading UK archaeologist and scholar Dr David...

Teatru Astra is proud to be announcing the full cast for its upcoming opera production La Traviata, made up of international singers of a fantastic reputation together with a selection from our very best home-grown. La Traviata will be performed twice, on Thursday 28 and Saturday 30 October 2010 at Teatru...

The Sunday Times today 17 October 2010 is publishing in its Cultural and Entertainment section a feature on Teatru Astra's La Traviata, which is being reproduced in full below. A beautiful full colour picture from the 2009 Rigoletto accompanies the article. The Teatru Astra in Gozo is opening its...

Teatru Astra is reiterating the invitation to the general public, especially to the hundreds of patrons who will be attending for La Traviata, for the public lecture, to be held tomorrow, Monday 18th October at 6pm at the Robert Samut Hall in Floriana. This widely anticipated innovation is expected...

The monthly English-language magazine PINK, issued today with the daily newspaper The Times, carries an exclusive interview with Gozitan soprano Miriam Cauchi in its Snapshot column. Ms Cauchi, who will be taking on the very demanding role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, speaks about her...

Yesterday, Wednesday 14 October, almost two weeks before the premiere of La Traviata at Teatru Astra, Marco Gandini, the opera artistic director, held the first rehearsal at Teatru Astra. The rehearsal involved the main cast including Miriam Cauchi (Violetta) and Alessandro Liberatore (Germont). La...

The organisation of the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea and La Traviata at Teatru Astra, as expected, are arousing significant interest amongst patrons and an extensive coverage in the local media. We are reproducing a piece that was published, today 13 October 2010 in The Malta Independent under...

Duo Natascha Chircop and Marco Rivoltini will perform in a piano duet recital on Sunday 31 October at Aula Mgr Giuseppe Farrugia, St George's Basilica at 20.00hrs. This event forms part of the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea. The programme of the recital, which is uploaded in full under the respective...

As part of its educational outreach programme in connection with its opera production La Traviata later this month, Teatru Astra is organising a lecture for the general public, free of charge, in Malta, in which the dynamics of Verdi’s immensely popular opera will be explained and demonstrated. The public...

The local media, especially the newspapers which were published today, Sunday 10 October 2010 reported extensively the media releases made by Teatru Astra and Festival Mediterranea in last days following the official launch of the festival on 27 September 2010. The Malta Today, Il Mument and It Torca...