5. Get yourself to an Areola Treat gig
The Areola Treat open this season’s Trackage Scheme Sunday afternoon sessions with a gig at Razzett l-Aħmar, Attard. The performance starts at 5pm and will be followed with a set by DJ Geddumu.
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4. Experience one of The Royal Opera’s most popular productions
Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata will be broadcast live at the Eden Cinemas on February 4 at 7.45pm. Verdi’s classic production conveys the indulgent social whirl of 19th-century Paris. The story follows the glamorous life of the Parisian courtesan Violetta Valery, one of opera’s greatest heroines. Based on the real life courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died in 1847, aged 23; discover her life’s darker undercurrents.
In Richard Eyre’s revival, Violetta is sung by Russian soprano Venera Gimadieva in her debut with The Royal Opera, following her successful appearance as Violetta at the Glyndebourne Festival. Discover Verdi’s most complex and enduring characters through his tuneful scores, which includes such favourites as Violetta’s introspective Ah fors’è lui, the ecstatic Sempre Libera, the duet Pura siccome un angelo and Parigi, o cara.
Gimadieva will be accompanied by Saimir Prigu, performing the role of Alfredo Germont. Giorgio Germont will be performed by Luca Salsi, under conductor Yves Abel. Tickets are available online.
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3. Take in a play at St James Cavalier
A story about four individuals disappointed in the system Achtung! Achtung! Europa… is a theatre play based on the writings of Heiner Mueller, adapted for stage by Nenad Aleksovski. The play focuses around a rejected actor, a girl who has been raped, a censored writer and a frustrated intellectual, all with the same intention to end their existing pain by becoming machines.
The production, which is being organised by Banda Teatarska features a mix of actors from diverse backgrounds, including a guest actor from Macedonia and students from Malta’s School of Performing Arts.
The play runs between Thursday and next Sunday at 8pm at Spazju Kreattiv, St James Cavalier, Valletta. Tickets are available online.
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2. Take a tour around Mdina
Mdina, known as the Silent City, a place of mysteries and dark tales entwined within its magnificent history. Heritage Malta is organising an animated tour of these dark tales, an intriguing experience guaranteed to send chills down one’s spine. The tour will be followed by light refreshments at the National Museum of Natural History housed within the Vilhena Palace.
Tickets are available from all Heritage Malta museums and sites and online. The tour is for adults.
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1. Go back to the 1980s
Neuro, the music event dedicated to the 1980s classics, returns at Beachaven, Xemxija, with DJ Alex Reflex Grech and DJ Mozzer. Dance to the best of the New Romantics, synthpop, electro and new wave, with bands like Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Human League, Ultravox and many more. Tickets are available at the door.