The Royal Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto - a work the composer himself called his 'best opera' - which will be screened live at Eden Cinemas Tuesday 16 January at 8.15pm. Rigoletto was...

The sixth edition of the Valletta International Baroque Festival will run between 13 and 27 January, promising two weeks of gorgeous music spread over 26 events in 14 different locations across...

On Sunday evening, people returning home from their Sunday outings must have seen the incredible amount of ambulances on the main roads.  One assumes they were called out to take people to...

I don't want another week to pass by without my writing something about an important bicentenary - that of the birth of Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892) in Tehran.  This was celebrated all...

All of a sudden, these last past weeks, some government-helped projects have suddenly turned into white elephants. The much-vaunted PPP between government and Vitals regarding three key hospitals...

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Last year turned out to have been yet another great year for the raiding of state assets by foreign business mercenaries who either have hoodwinked the government or have helped the government...

Time has no actual divisions to mark its passage. But mankind has thought of establishing measurements to find its place and relate it to specific periods in history. In fact, we feel the need to...

When I was a boy, Rete 4 used to broadcast a Japanese animated series called Star Blazers. It featured the sunken WWII battleship Yamato – ‘Yamato’, Japan’s traditional name,...

There is a sense in Europe that the story has run out – a sort of European existential tiredness, if you will. In his well-argued polemic The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity,...