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The forthcoming eleventh edition of Festival Mediterranea, an annual festival of culture, featuring opera, music, dance, history and archaeology, local crafts, food and wine, and art, has been launched by Teatru Astra. Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly takes pride of place in this year's programme of...

World class singer Daniela Dessì will be taking on the leading role in this October’s Teatru Astra production of Madama Butterfly, held on the 25th and 27th October as part of the 11th edition of Festival Mediterranea. Ms Dessì, who has graced the stages of top theatres including La Scala in Milan, Teatro...

Today's Sunday Times of Malta carries out extensive coverage on Teatru Astra's latest opera star engagement. The piece, which also features a photo of Daniela Dessi is titled Iron Lady of Opera. We are reproducing the full interview below. Welcomed by a “sono contentissima di venire a Gozo”, I could...

Teatru Astra has lauched the preliminary programme of events for the forthcoming edition of Festival Mediterranea. The annual festival of culture, featuring opera, music, dance, history and archaeology, local food and wine, and art, this year runs from 25 October to 17 November. The 2012 edition marks...

Internationally-acclaimed tenor and Grammy Award nominee Joseph Calleja has been appointed Malta’s first cultural ambassador. Joseph Calleja's debut happened in 1997 at Teatru Astra where he sang the role of Macduff in Guiseppe Verdi’s opera Macbeth. Besides exposing patrons to word-class singers Teatru...

Ismael Portelli, Teatru Astra's light consultant has been entrusted to set the light plant and effects in Malta's popular Eurovision Song Contest. Portelli's latest involvement at Teatru Astra was in 2011's Norma which opened the tenth edition of Festival Mediterranea. Enrico Stinchelli's artistic direction...

On the 31st of March, Saturday, the Teatru Astra will be exploding with colour and movement - on an unprecedented event, a Gozo theatre will accommodate the largest amount of dancers ever to perform on one stage. Gozitan and Maltese dancers alike will join forces to bring to our sister island YADA's...

Canale 5's recent feature on Teatru Astra's Norma in the weekly programme Loggione has been uploaded on Teatru Astra's newly launched You Tube Channel. Loggione, now in its eighth edition, weekly brings to the screen selected opera productions and concerts, rarely outside of Italy, together with interviews...

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. Through the support and collaboration of all these 2012 promises to be yet another...

Teatru Astra is pleased to announce the title of the opera production for the festival in 2012 - Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly". Teatru Astra will stick to its 10-year tradition of putting up the opera on the last Saturday of October and the Thursday preceding it, with the dates chosen for next...