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Rigoletto: Verdi's distinguished three act opera composed in forty days in 1851. Based on Francesco Maria Piave's libretto after Hugo's Le Roi s'Amuse, it premiered at La Fenice in Venice on the 11th March 1851 as a tour de force of Verdi's musical creation. Twenty years, with all their implications...

This enchanting event is for all those who crave the drama, passion, and intensity of opera. Come witness the power of the human voice as it reverberates through the hall, filling your senses with a wave of emotions. The renowned opera singers Soprano Claudia Sasso and Tenor Leonardo Capalbo backed by...

The Broadway musical, famously inspired the 1965 film following the success of the Trapp Family Singers through their concerts and tours throughout the United States. Various publishers sought to convince Maria to write her memoirs and the story of the family choir. After much initial hesitation, the...

On Saturday 21st January 2023, DCapitals Big Band presented the 4th edition of Kantamagħna - A Singers' Festival at the Teatru Astra in Victoria. 24 singers participated in the festival and were divided in three categories. Alexia Micallef was selected from the professional jury as the overall winner...

Teatru Astra is proud to announce the main roles for the ever popular Rodgers - Hammerstein musical: The Sound of Music. Based on the 1949 memoir of Maria Von Trapp and set in Austria on the brink of Hitler's Anchluss, the final collaboration between the Rodgers-Hammerstein duo tells the story of Maria...

For the first time in panto history, this Christmas, FM Theatre Productions are bringing panto to the Teatru Astra in Gozo from the 26 to the 30 of December. This year, the Jack and The Beanstalk pantomime is made up of a stellar cast of actor-musicians, led by panto veteran Edward Mercieca as Dame Fazola...

Autumn in Gozo is an attractive proposition, but the jewel in its crown is certainly Festival Mediterranea, the cultural apotheosis that every year - pandemics excluded - enthrals locals and visitors alike with its events of an international standard. The festival showcases both local and foreign artists...

Productions of Bizet's Carmen and flamenco have been closely associated with each other for over a Century. The gypsy protagonist is often depicted as a flamenco performer herself, and it has become commonplace to associate Bizet's score with aspects of flamenco. This however, only developed gradually,...

Georges Bizet's opera highlights two character types: the femme fatale, and the sentimental heroine. Carmen, the beautiful yet daring and elusive gypsy who seduces Don Jose is the former, opposed by Micaela, young, naive and trusting, while also emotionally involved with Don Jose. Carmen is the perfect...

By 1875, Georges Bizet's reputation was firmly established, and thus he opened his latest work, Carmen, at the Opera Comique with all due justifiable confidence. His subject: a rebellious tobacco factory worker in early 19 th -century Seville playing loose with lovers and the law, finally paying with...