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Any way you look at it, Aida is peerless in Italian melodrama. All the great ingredients which make up Italian Opera are there: grandeur and intimacy; poignancy and implacability; vengeance and redemption; love and envy.It is indeed the triumph of Woman.There is perhaps no better way to put it. Aida...

The Teatru Astra is pleased to announce that Puccini's La Boheme is once again living up to its reputation as a number one favorite with audiences world-wide. With a formidable cast which is spearheading the great team at the Teatru Astra the odds are staked heavily in favor of another packed house on...

Teatru Astra, in collaboration with Bank of Valletta, organised an opera workshop themed Behind The Opera Curtain, ahead of its forthcoming La Boheme. The session, which was held on Tuesday the 20th of October at the Teatru Manoel Studio Theatre in Valletta, featured the main protagonists in this year’s...

Teatru Astra, with the support of Bank of Valletta, is proud to announce the fourteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea, a series of cultural events to be held in Gozo between the 20th of October and 6th of December 2015. This year's festival was officially launched during a press conference addressed...

Teatru Astra has just announced its latest educational initiative, 'Behind the Opera Curtain', a free workshop with directors and soloists from Teatru Astra’s forthcoming production of La Boheme. Aimed at opera lovers, singers and students, the workshop will be held at the Teatru Manoel’s Studio Theatre...

It is common knowledge that the production of opera at Gozo’s Teatru Astra enjoys a well-established tradition of excellence, with the engagement of an internationally renowned cast, a fantastic opera chorus, imposing sets and scenery, outstanding costumes and spectacular lights. There is a strong educational...

Opera at the Teatru Astra is an integral artistic experience. Spearheaded by conductor Joseph Vella and stage director Enrico Stinchelli, Teatru Astra has fielded year in year out, refreshing and compelling opera productions which grace the finest and most prestigious boards anywhere in the world....

The Malta Independent on Sunday's second issue of 'Encore', an arts and culture magazine published on Sunday 30 August 2015, featured prominently the opera at Teatru Astra, in an interview carried with Mr Michael Formosa, Festival Mediterranea's Chairman. The piece is being reproduced in full below. La...

We are reproducing an interview Dr Maria Frendo, chorus mistress at Teatru Astra held with Miriam Cauchi, who will be interpreting the role of Mimí in Teatru Astra's forthcoming opera, La Bohème which was published on the Sunday Times of 30 August 2015. Fresh from her resounding success singing with...

Teatru Astra's Nabucco is still making headlines, now in Italy. We are reproducting below a review of the production of the 1st and 3rd January 2015 held in Rimini, the centre stage of which were the set, props and a selection of costumes which we produced by Teatru Astra for its own the Nabucco of...