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Students 25 years old or under may benefit from heavily special discounted tickets offered by the Teatru Astra of Gozo for the upcoming opera production La Traviata, held at the Teatru Astra on Thursday 28th and Saturday 30th October 2010. The Teatru Astra, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education,...

The La Stella Band is currently engaged in a series of rehearsals ahead of the Annual Grand Concert of Saturday 20 November 2010. The Kuncert Annwali, besides being a highlight in Festival Mediterranea, represents the annual milestone for Gozo’s principal musical ensemble, the La Stella Band, which...

The ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea will include a special focus on another aspect of the local heritage, Gozo’s viticulture. The event titled The vines of San Mitri is scheduled for Saturday 13 November at 14:00hrs. This activity includes a lecture about Gozo's viticulture and oenology followed...

Heritage-and-history enthusiasts should keep their agenda free from other appointments and commitments during the first week of November as Dr David Trump, leading UK archaeologist and scholar, will be back in the Maltese Islands for yet another week of heritage-related events! Dr Trump is once again...

The local media has reported extensively the press conference organised by Teatru Astra at the Bank of Valletta Operations Centre in Santa Venera in Malta last Monday. Bank of Valletta is a major partner of Festival Mediterranea. The press present were addressed by Mr Tonio Depasquale CEO of Bank of...

Festival Mediterranea 2010 was launched this morning during a press conferenceat the BOV Operations Centre, addressed by Mr Michael Formosa, Chairman FestivalMediterranea organising committee, Prof. Mro. Joseph Vella, Festival Mediterraneamusic director and resident conductor at the Teatru Astra, and...

The Gozo Creative Theatre Club will be making a welcome participation in the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea through the production of Euripides' Trojan Women scheduled on Friday, 5th November. Produced in 415 BCE at the City Dionysia, this is the third of a Trilogy of plays. The preceding plays,...

Opera season coming up! The 13th edition of Your Gozo Guide published by Arkadia Marketing Ltd naturally gives prominence to what is arguably one of Malta's most glamourous nights, the opera in Gozo. The main editorial feature in this publication entitled Andiamo all' Opera! gives due prominence to...

Teatru Astra has just released three new posters in the run up to the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea. A second version of the opera La Traviata poster, a poster detailing the heritage events happening in this year’s edition of the festival and another which includes the full programme of event...

Teatru Astra is currently hosting Marco Gandini’s assistants; Mauro Tinti and Luca Canfora, ahead of the opera La Traviata of the next 28 and 30 October. Marco Gandini, whose much acclaimed CV includes many years of assistance to world-renowned Franco Zeffirelli has been entrusted by Teatru Astra with...