Malta Arts Festival launched

Sixteen events will feature in this year’s Malta Arts Festival, which will be held between July 1 and 24.

Adrian Mamo, Chairman of the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts, said the events would be the work of collaboration between Maltese and foreign artistes and would feature dance, theatre, visual arts and music from Malta, Spain, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Morocco.

The programme includes the participation of artistes from The Globe Theatre of London the Arditti Qartet and Enrico Dindo, Roberto Cominati, Scarlattine Teatro, Azar Teatro, the Rosa Ensemble from Holland and Renaud Garcia Fons.

Local participants will include The Cosmos Ensemble, Cikka Grima and her Puerto Flamenco Group, french horn player Etienne Cutajar, and actors Pino Scicluna and Peter Busuttil.

The events will include the Music of Astor Piazzolla for celo and strings, a recital of Mendelsshon's chamber music, Hansel and Gretel, a Fairytale Opera by Die Marchenhafte Operncompagnie, a wine, food and art festival in South Street, Valletta between July 10-13 and Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, a Globe Theatre Production .

The following is the programme:

All Piazzolla!

The Music of Astor Piazzolla for Cello and Strings

Adios nonino (arr. Molinelli)

Las Cuatro estaciones (arr. J. Bosso)

Le Gran Tango (arr. E. Dindo)

Enrico Dindo – Cello

Solisti di Pavia

Date: 2nd July

Venue: President’s Palace Courtyard – Valletta

Time: 21:30

Barroco-Roll

Street Theatre Performance

Azar Teatro

Dates: 3rd - 4th July

Venue: Republic Street – Valletta

Time: 10:30

Mendelssohn Chamber Music Recital

Commemorating the bicentennial of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s birth

Piano Trio op. 49 in d minor

Piano Sextet in D op. 110

Roberto Cominati – piano

Solisti di Pavia

Date: 3rd July

Venue: President’s Palace Courtyard – Valletta

Time: 21:30

Marsovin Summer Wine Festival

A feast of wine, food, and Mediterranean culture

Dates: 3rd - 5th July

Venue: Hastings Gardens - Valletta

Time: 19:30 onwards

20th Century Wind Quintet Music

Cosmos Ensemble

Jacques Ibert – Trios Pieces Breves

Leoš Janáček – Mládi (Youth)

György Ligeti – 6 Bagatelles for Woodwind Quintet

Charles Camilleri – Picasso Suite for Woodwind Quintet

Cosmos Ensemble

Rebecca Hall – Flute

John McDonough – Oboe

Godfrey Mifsud – Clarinet

José García Gutiérrez – Horn

Ulrike Buhlmann – Bassoon

Date: 4th July

Venue: Auberge de Castille Courtyard - Vallette

Time 20:30

Triana 41010 – Puerto Flamenco

Francesca Grima

Jesus Herrera

Antonio Castro “Antoñete”

Tamara Lopez Creo

Jose Guerrero “El Tremendo”

Eduardo Trasierra

Andrej Vujicic

Dates: 5th and 6thth July

Venue: Argotti Gardens – Floriana

Time: 21:00

Hänsel & Gretel

A Fairytale Opera

Die Märchenhafte Operncompagnie

Hänsel: Marie Giroux, Gretel: Norina Kutz, Witch/Mother: Tersia Potgieter,

Father: Thomas Schumann, Narrator: Gunda Aurich

Pianist: Ronald Herold

Director: Gunda Aurich

Stage Design: Tina Zimmermann

Costumes: Heike Jänichen

Dates: 6th - 7th July

Venue: President’s Palace Courtyard – Valletta

Time: 21:30

Horn Trio Recital

Györgi Ligeti – Trio for Horn Violin and Piano

Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending

Johannes Brahms – Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano in E flat Major

Etienne Cutajar – Horn

Thomas Gould – Violin

John Reid - Piano

Date: 9th July

Venue: President’s Palace Courtyard – Valletta

Time: 21:30

Les Âmes Frères

Dance Performance

La Compagnie Julien Lestel

Dancers: Julien Lestel, Gilles Porte

Choreography: Julien Lestel

Date: 10th July

Venue: Argotti Gardens – Floriana

Time: 21:00

Strada

Wine, Food, and Art

Dates: 10th - 13th July

Venue: South Street – Valetta

Time: 19:30 0nwards

Arditti Quartet in Concert

Ludwig van Beethoven – Große Fuge (1825)

Luis De Pablo – Quartet No.1 'Fragmento' (1985-86)

Iannis Xenakis 'Tetras' (1983)

Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No.5 (2004-05)

Béla Bartok String Quartet No.4 (1928)

Arditti Quartet:

Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan - Violins

Ralf Ehlers - Viola

Lucas Fels - Cello

Date: 11th July

Venue: President’s Palace Courtyard – Valletta

Time: 21:30

Anticantata

Music Theatre Installation

Rosa Ensemble

Director/Composer: Daniel Cross

Text coach: Judith Brokking Video: Arnoud Noordegraaf

Text: Annemarie Slotboom Choreography: Peggy Olislaeger Dramaturgy: Geert van Boxtel

Piano: Laurens de Boer

Bass: Peter Jessen

Guitar: Jeroen Kimman

Vocals/Performance: Lizzy Timmers Voices: Sevil Aydin, Ron Bunzl, Izumi Furuta, Kees Hulst, Rob List, Bert Luppes, Raj Mohan, Esther Mugambi, Roos Ouwehand, Sahand Sahebdivani, Sandra Singh, Cora Schmeiser. Sound/technique: Thomas Koopmans, Daniel Stan

Light: Luuk Vierhout

Dates: 12th-13th July

Venue: Old Opera House Ruins

Time 21:00

“King” J. Lear

A theatre project based on Shakespeare’s King Lear

Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca sull’Arte dell’Attore and Scarlattine Teatro with Peter Busuttil, Katia Capato, Giulietta De Bernardi, Alessandro Dell’Atti

Ruggero Dondi, Marco Gobetti, Francesca Netto, Pino Scicluna

Dir. Domenico Castaldo

Text based on Shakespeare by Marco Gobetti and Domenico Castaldo

Performance in Italian/Maltese

Dates: 14th -15th July

Venue: Argotti Gardens – Floriana

Time 21:00

Renaud Garcia-Fons, La Linea Del Sur

New Quartet Linea Del Sur

featuring:

Renaud Garcia-Fons – Double Bass

David Venitucci – Accordion

Kiko Ruiz – Flamenco Guitar

Pascal Rollando – Percussions

Date: 21st July

Venue: President’s Palace Courtyard - Valletta

Time: 21:30

Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors

A Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Production

Directed by Rebecca Gatward Designed by Liz Cooke Composed by Alex Silverman Choreography by Sian Williams

Cast Ronan Raftery Antipholus Sarah Ridgeway Adriana Dana Gartland Luciana Miltos Yerolemou Dromio Cornelius Booth Dr Pinch/Egeon Philip Battley Angelo/Duke Johanne Murdock Abbess/Courtesan Sophie Scott Merchants

Date: 22 - 24th July

Venue: Argotti Gardens – Floriana

Time 21:00

The Life Model

Between Nude and Naked

A Visual Arts Exhibition involving different media.

Participating Artists:

Vince Briffa

(Malta)

Antony Calleja

(Malta)

Jeni Caruana

(Malta)

Patrick Dalli

(Malta)

Alexandra Pace

(Malta)

Rapahel Vella

(Malta)

Astrid Steinbrecher

(Germany)

Zygimantas Augustinas

(Lithuania)

Curator: Patrick J Fenech

Date: 3rd -31st July

Venue: No. 68 St Lucia Street, Valletta

Times: Monday to Friday: 1000 - 1300 & 1400 - 1800

Saturday & Sunday: 1000 - 1300