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Teatru Astra has come to mean living up to its promises, delivering opera productions with excellent weight and scale and yet all the delicacy required. A completely new production of Verdi's flagship AIDA, which is being staged as the kingpin of the annual Festival Mediterranea, promises to be definitely...

In preparation for the production of the opera AIDA on the 27 and 29 October 2016, Teatru Astra is extending an invitation to all those who may be interested in participating in the opera. Teatru Astra will be considering applications for interested persons to form part of the chorus for this production...

Teatru Astra is proud to announce that booking for its forthcoming opera is now open. Following last year's spectacular production of La Boheme, a direct hit with opera aficionados, Teatru Astra is poised to fly even higher with a new production of Verdi's Aida. The splendid production team at Teatru...

Following the two full-house performances of Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme and the first cultural events of the fourteenth edition of Festival Mediterranea, the Teatru Astra now looks forward to further highlights in this year’s programme of events. The first of these will be a seminar themed Exploring...

La Bohème staged at Teatru Astra sported a wealth of colour and detail combining elements of period and modern style to field a crowning triumph. It was indeed a beautiful, passionate, and majestic performance. Poignant and fascinating sets, nicely crafted and highly enjoyable music played with zest...

Oscar Wilde's celebrated work De Profundis will be staged for first time in Malta on November 14 at 7.30pm at the Astra Theatre, Victoria, as part of the Festival Mediterranea. Written over a period of three months in 1897 towards the end of Wilde's prison term, the work comprises a 50,000-word letter...

'Design and Decoration for Ecclesiastical Gozo 1800-1900: Recent Important Discoveries' is the title of a talk to be given by Mark Sagona on Friday at 7pm at the Gozo Ministry conference hall, Victoria. The talk, being held as part of Festival Mediterranea 2015, analyses the artistic significance of...

Any way you look at it, Aida is peerless in Italian melodrama. All the great ingredients which make up Italian Opera are there: grandeur and intimacy; poignancy and implacability; vengeance and redemption; love and envy.It is indeed the triumph of Woman.There is perhaps no better way to put it. Aida...

The Teatru Astra is pleased to announce that Puccini's La Boheme is once again living up to its reputation as a number one favorite with audiences world-wide. With a formidable cast which is spearheading the great team at the Teatru Astra the odds are staked heavily in favor of another packed house on...

Teatru Astra, in collaboration with Bank of Valletta, organised an opera workshop themed Behind The Opera Curtain, ahead of its forthcoming La Boheme. The session, which was held on Tuesday the 20th of October at the Teatru Manoel Studio Theatre in Valletta, featured the main protagonists in this year’s...