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The Opera Productions page of this website has been updated with the photo gallery of the Norma, the latest opera held at Teatru Astra on the 27 and 29 October - during the tenth edition of Festival Mediterranea. Norma which was directed by Italian director Enrico Stinchelli has recently featured on...

Video Mediaset, the internet arm of the Italian media empire Mediaset, features promiently and in full yesterday's programme Loggione which isaired on Canale 5 and which was entirely dedicated to Teatru Astra recent Norma. Loggione, now in its eighth edition, weekly brings to the screen selected opera...

Teatru Astra's opera production Norma, held twice last month, will be featured on Canale 5's only opera and music review television programme Loggione, aired this Saturday at 08.45am. Scenes from the opera, filmed by a four-strong television crew who came specifically to Gozo for the opera, will be screened...

On October 29, opera buffs like me were regaled with a spectacular performance of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera Norma at the Astra Theatre in Gozo. The audience was treated to an evening of music and singing of a very high standard. The whole production was a great success thanks to the effort and dedication...

The tenth edition of Festival Mediterranea comes to a close on Saturday 19 November with the annual Grand Symphonic Concert by La Stella Philharmonic Band (AD 1863). 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...

History is very much on the menu during the 10th edition of Festival Mediterranea,currently underway in Gozo, with a number of events that should go down well withthose who appreciate local heritage. The festival, organised by volunteers at Teatru Astra,opened on the 27th October with the first of two...

Once again - and yet not so much “again” - the Teatru Astra has presented the opera loving public of the Maltese islands with an evening of astonishing spectacle, superlative creativity and captivating emotion. Norma, Vincenzo Bellini’s great two-act opera, does not offer itself to spectacle in much...

(includes photos of Saturday's performance) The hundreds of patrons who packed the unique auditorium, sans pareil as regards acoustics on the Maltese islands, just did not want to leave: it was all there: finesse, charm, elegance, mystery, scenic beauty, glorious music, golden-voiced soloists and matching...

As the curtain raises on the opening night of "Norma" and the 10th edition of Festival Mediterranea, 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...

Although Norma takes place in the times of the Roman conquest of Britain, the drama is perennial: two women who fall in love with the same man. Better still, a man who seduces and abandons his lover and his two sons, to woo her friend. Pollione, the Roman proconsul, whose constancy in inconstancy...