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The Opera Productions page of this website has been updated with the photo gallery of the Otello, the latest opera held at Teatru Astra on the 24 and 26 October - during the twelfth edition of Festival Mediterranea. Otello which was conducted by Prof Joseph Vella and directed by Italian director Enrico...

The twelfth edition of Festival Mediterranea comes to a close on Saturday 16 November with the Annual Grand Symphonic Concert by La Stella Philharmonic. The concert, which starts at 7.30pm, will be held at Teatru Astra. Entrance to the event is free of charge. The symphonic concert brings together a...

To mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great Calabrian artist Mattia Preti (1613-99), the organizers of the Mediterranea Festival, now in its 12th edition, have invited artist and art historian Mark Sagona, who is also a Ph.D. candidate and visiting lecturer in the Department of History of...

Teatru Astra has just launched the Friends of the Teatru Astra. For an annual subscription of €20 the members of the group will receive a copy of the DVD of the opera amongst other benefits. Being part and parcel of a voluntary organization, the Socjeta' Filarmonika La Stella, the Teatru Astra depends...

At the Teatru Astra you get what you are promised: a vocal and scenic spectacular was promised and that’s exactly what the overawed patrons who packed the superbly acoustically endowed auditorium got and more…Indeed Otello courts superlatives….larger than life, multi-dimensional tragedy engineered by...

Teatru Astra announces that this evening's first night of Otello is sold out. Only few seats remaining for Saturday’s show. Teatru Astra marks this as another milestone which follows 2012's Madama Butterfly sell out. Yesterday Teatru Astra announced it will be staging up Nabucco in October 2014. Booking...

Teatru Astra proudly announces Giuseppe Verdi’s immortal Nabucco as the highlight of Festival Mediterranea 2014. This production will see Nabucco being staged at the Astra after an absence of twenty years. It was last performed in our theatre in 1994, a production that was a resounding success with both...

A weekend of vintage delights in Gozo kicks off this Thursday with what promises to be a scenic and vocal spectacular: Verdi’s superb Otello. With a titanic Badri Maisuradze’ in the title role, this new production will definitely be a very high point indeed in the local opera milieu. Patrons are in for...

Teatru Astra is proud to announce the participation of leading Maltese soprano Miriam Cauchi in the forthcoming production of Verdi’s Otello on Thursday 24 and Saturday 26 October. This will be Ms Cauchi’s seventh appearance on Teatru Astra’s stage, after highly successful performances of Oscar (Ballo...

ACT I. Cyprus, late fifteenth century. The Moor Otello, governor of the island and a general in the Venetian army, arrives in port as a tempest rages. Iago, Otello's ensign, confers with Roderigo, a fop who has come to Cyprus because of his unrequited love for Desdemona, a Venetian beauty recently married...