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The committees of the La Stella Philharmonic Society and Festival Mediterranea wish to extend the best wishes for a blessed Christmas and prosperous new year to all friends, patrons, sponsors and volunteers of Teatru Astra. The committeed support and collaboration of all will make 2013, yet another eventful...

The Għaqda Armar Festa San Ġorġ, a branch within the La Stella Philharmonic Society, in collaboration with the management of the Teatru Astra, will be the proud host of Miliedfest - The La Stella Grand Christmas Show, to be staged at the Teatru Astra on Saturday, December 22 at 8.00pm. The show features...

M. Rózsa (1907 – 1995) Quo Vadis? (Sound Track)Film music is a genre that is attractive as it is elusive to articulate and describe verbally. Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa is well-known for his wonderful music that he composed as sound tracks for such epics as Ben Hur, Julius Caesar and many many...

New composition to be premièred during the concert The eleventh edition of Festival Mediterranea comes to a close on Saturday 17 November with the Annual Grand Symphonic Concert by La Stella Philharmonic Band (AD 1863), during which a local composition will be premièred. The concert, which starts at...

The eleventh edition of Festival Mediterranea is on again this Saturday (10 November) with an onsite lecture will focus on the art of Malta's greatest artist at the turn of the 20th century, through a selection of works in the churches of Gozo. The lecture will discuss the nature of Calì's art and the...

Teatru Astra rejoices in the news that the internationally acclaimed tenor Joseph Calleja has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Malta. Tenor Joseph Calleja, one of the world’s finest opera singers and the cultural ambassador for the country, made his professional debut at Teatru Astra,...

We are uploading the review by Albert G. Storace which was published on the Times of Malta on Wednesday 31 October 2012 Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the most famous case of a notorious first-night flop achieving immortality. Its popularity has never waned since its relaunching in a revised version...

The festival committee would wish to inform the public that tomorrow's lecture Society and the Economy on the Hospitaller Island of Malta will be held at Aula Mgr Guiseppe Farrugia, St George's Basilica, not at the Banca Guiratale, as announced previously. The lecture will be delivered by leading historian...

Madama Butterfly either soars or sinks. At the Teatru Astra, packed to the rafters, Madama Butterfly started at the top and worked its way upwards…As old-age wisdom goes: something is good if all its parts are good. If ever this maxim ever needed confirmation, it was all there in this splendid production:...

Teatru Astra announces that it will open its theatre season 2013/2014 with Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" on 24 and 26th October 2013, next year being the composer's 200th anniversary from his birth. The opera will be staged once again in Gozo after 10 years. It was the last opera to be performed at...