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Launching Harmonie, Songs for Voice & Harp

Friday, 26 November 2021, 10:35 Last update: about 6 years ago

"The palette of colors offered by the human voice, combined with the crystalline and hypnotic charm of the harp, are the weapons of seduction of the work you are about to hear." This tantilising...

How Malta was given to the Order

Friday, 26 November 2021, 10:33 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Every schoolboy in Malta knows that Emperor Charles V gave the Maltese archipelago to the Order of St John after the Order lost its base in Rhodes and was roaming around Italy looking for a...

Coerced and abandoned

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 09:24 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

When Napoleon left Malta, just a few days after he arrived here, in June 1798, he wanted to take with him all the officers and soldiers serving with the Order. One reason may have been he wanted...

MADC to Stage Brad Birch’s Black Mountain

Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 14:31 Last update: about 6 years ago

A new production of Black Mountain, a psychological drama about betrayal and forgiveness by winner of the Harold Pinter Commission Brad Birch, is set to be staged by MADC this December. Directed...

Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by the MPO

Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 12:02 Last update: about 6 years ago

Moving from one picture to the next, some sigh, some pause to take a closer look. The MPO will interpret the experience as depicted in Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece, Pictures at an...

‘L-Imħallef Giovanni Bonello, Bejn Storja u Miti’

Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:39 Last update: about 6 years ago

What was the divergence of views between Dr Giovanni Bonello and Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami about? Is it true that it was PL Leader Dr Alfred Sant who intervened? How did Giovanni Bonello...

Evaluating Malta’s economy

Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:06 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

This book is the last of the Occasional Papers that APS Bank published as long as Professor Delia was its chairman. Then the series seems to have been discontinued. It is true that by and large...

Churchill, Malta, and Gibraltar

Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago

Author: Victor Aquilina Publisher: Kite Group, 2021Pages: 380pp Malta has the lives of many thousands of German and Italian soldiers on its conscience', Field Marshal Erwin Rommel wrote in late...

The MPO performs The Firebird in Gozo

Saturday, 6 November 2021, 16:24 Last update: about 6 years ago

A night of moving Russian Folklore will fill the galleries and stalls of the dazzling Teatru tal-Opra Aurora, as the MPO perform The Firebird in Gozo. The scene is set by Tchaikovsky's beloved...

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