An Operetta Evening (Serata all’Operetta) will be held on Saturday 27 January at 7.30pm at the Culture Performance Hall of the Società Filarmonica Sliema, Palazzo Sliema, 34 St Trophimus Street, Sliema.

This is the second edition by general request of an operetta evening, coordinated by Joe Fenech,with a revised programme of selections.

Popular tunes will be interpreted by singers Joe Aquilina, Karen Camilleri, Louiselle Pace Gouder, Claire Caruana, Connie Francis Zerafa and Joe Huber; while comedians George Micallef and Diane Micallef will perform the famous duetto of Cin-Ci-Là. They will be accompanied at the piano by Cynthia Genovese.

Other selections are from the following operettas: La Vedova Allegra, Il Paese del Sorriso, Il Conte di Lussemburgo and La Danza delle Libellule by Franz Lehar; Les Contes d’Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach; Eine Nacht in Venedig by Johann Strauss; L’Acqua Cheta by Giuseppe Petri; The Bells of New York by Gustaf Kerker; Vittoria e il suo Ussaro by Paul Abraham; and by general request, other episodes from the Maltese operetta It-Twajba Suzanna by Jean Gilbert.

Entrance is on a first-come-first-served basis; tickets with a nominal donation in support of the Culture Performance Hall by the Società Filarmonica Sliema, are obtainable from the society’s headquarters: Palazzo Sliema, 34 St Trophimus Street, Sliema (tel.: 9944-7434); and Aqua Marina Dive Systems, Gzira (tel.: 2131-7137).

Tickets hotline: 9944-3460.