The Classique Foundation, a non-profit cultural organisation that aims to promote music culture, is presenting another concert in its Grand Operatic Concert series.

Grand Operatic Concert 2014 is a gala evening with a programme line-up that includes arias and duets from the most popular operas by Verdi, Puccini, Boito, Donizetti, Giordano, Catalani and Ponchielli, among others.

It will also feature overtures and ballet music from the operatic repertoire by Berlioz, Rossini, Bizet and Saint-Saens.

Ever committed to enhance standards, the foundation has once again engaged the services of two internationally-renowned singers, soprano Norma Fantini and tenor Luciano Ganci. Both are household names at important opera houses around the world such as the Metropolitan Opera House (New York), ROH Covent Garden (London), Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna), Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) and Teatro alla Scala (Milan).

They have both worked with some of the most distinguished conductors of our times including Daniel Barenboim, Stéphane Denève and Zubin Mehta.

At the moment Fantini is busy performing the title role of Manon Lescaut in St Petersburg, while Ganci is at the Bolshoi Theatre performing the role of Alfredo Germont in La Traviata.

The foundation has once again engaged the services of two internationally-renowned singers, soprano Norma Fantini and tenor Luciano Ganci

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra will be under the baton of the music/artistic director and mentor of the foundation, Joseph Debrincat, who is an established name in the local musical circles, particularly in the field of opera.

The event will be held on November 8 at 7.30pm at the Aurora Opera House, Victoria, under the patronage of President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.

Tickets may be obtained at the Aurora box office (tel 2155 9452); via helplines 7953 8846 and 7955 1871, by sending an e-mail to grandoc2014@gmail.com or online via www.teatruaurora.com.