A festive dose of laughter is heading to Valletta as Teatru Manoel’s TOI TOI programme celebrates its fifteenth season with a brand new run of its hit Christmas comedy Carols at Christmas. Known for creating high-quality, accessible productions for families, TOI TOI is once again bringing parents and children together for participatory theatre filled
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Sergey Smbatyan, is paying tribute to Dmitri Shostakovich on his 50th death anniversary with a concert at the Grand Ballroom, Radisson Blu Resort, St Julian’s, on December 11, at 7.30pm. The MPO will be joined by Wen-Sinn Yang as soloist in the composer’s Cello Concerto No. 1 . The orchestra will also perform
Thanks to her 1994 smash hit All I Want for Christmas is You , Mariah Carey is almost as Christmassy as Santa himself. The diva has managed to not only storm the charts but turn Christmas into her very own money-making machine.
When the Manoel Theatre Orchestra disbanded in 1996, Roderick Bugeja’s dream of becoming a full-time orchestra member seemed dashed. He had been freelancing as a part-time musician in the orchestra for a couple of years when it disbanded and had even switched from euphonium to viola to play in the ensemble. “I used to attend orchestra concerts and
