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The local media has reported extensively the press conference organised by Teatru Astra at the Bank of Valletta Operations Centre in Santa Venera in Malta last Monday. Bank of Valletta is a major partner of Festival Mediterranea. The press present were addressed by Mr Tonio Depasquale CEO of Bank of...

Festival Mediterranea 2010 was launched this morning during a press conferenceat the BOV Operations Centre, addressed by Mr Michael Formosa, Chairman FestivalMediterranea organising committee, Prof. Mro. Joseph Vella, Festival Mediterraneamusic director and resident conductor at the Teatru Astra, and...

The Gozo Creative Theatre Club will be making a welcome participation in the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea through the production of Euripides' Trojan Women scheduled on Friday, 5th November. Produced in 415 BCE at the City Dionysia, this is the third of a Trilogy of plays. The preceding plays,...

Opera season coming up! The 13th edition of Your Gozo Guide published by Arkadia Marketing Ltd naturally gives prominence to what is arguably one of Malta's most glamourous nights, the opera in Gozo. The main editorial feature in this publication entitled Andiamo all' Opera! gives due prominence to...

Teatru Astra has just released three new posters in the run up to the ninth edition of Festival Mediterranea. A second version of the opera La Traviata poster, a poster detailing the heritage events happening in this year’s edition of the festival and another which includes the full programme of event...

Teatru Astra is currently hosting Marco Gandini’s assistants; Mauro Tinti and Luca Canfora, ahead of the opera La Traviata of the next 28 and 30 October. Marco Gandini, whose much acclaimed CV includes many years of assistance to world-renowned Franco Zeffirelli has been entrusted by Teatru Astra with...

ACT 1 In their tiny abysmal one-room attic apartment in Paris' Latin Quarter, the painter Marcello and his poet friend Rodolfo tear pages from Rodolfo's latest literary work and throw them into the small stove, hoping to keep the fire burning long enough to make it through the cold Christmas Eve night.Their...

Whilst preparations for the 2010 festival and opera are in full swing, Teatru Astra’s corporate festival website is geared to keep the regular visitors posted with all the developments and media releases on La Traviata and all the other festival events. Very recently, the gallery in Opera Productions...

Centre Stage Dance Academy’s forthcoming 'scheduled on13th of November 2010 is set to be yet another great attraction in the next edition of following the resounding success of ‘Unforgettable’ in the last edition of the festival. The image and poster of the 2010 show has just been released and a promotional...

Festival Mediterranea and Teatru Astra’s 2010 opera, La Traviata, feature prominently in the The Maltese Islands Events Calendar Highlights 2010 a publication by the Malta Tourism Authority intended to serve as a guide to the main events happening during 2010 in Malta and Gozo.This glossy and attractive...