One of Gozo’s main classical music festivals promises to be a programme of events focusing on the theme ‘Women in Society’.
Taking cue from Giacomi Puccini’s Manon Lescaut – this year’s staged opera – the three-week festival will underline the importance of female engagement in the arts and the wider sociopolitical perspective, by presenting female composers’, artists’, and performers’ works and stories to the public.
Gaulitana will include an eclectic mix of events with multifarious styles – orchestral, chamber, recitals, vocal, featuring international and local artists and ensembles.
Held in various locations around Gozo (with some events in Malta), the festival incorporates multiple creative arts, from literature, to acting, cinema and live-painting, while presenting multiple genres (jazz, pop, musicals and folk music).
It will also host an exhibition by 30 Chinese female artists and shall commemorate the bicentenary since the birth of Clara Schumann.
The festival concludes with the OPERA+ Weekend (April 5 to 7), three days of cultural bonanza highlighted by the production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.
The opera returns to the Maltese stage after an absence of 20 years, starring Miriam Gauci – Gaulitana’s honorary patron – in the title role.
Alexander Frey returns as artist-in-residence, in a festival offering an unmissable feast of the arts, including its Espresso Series in the historic Cittadella, the TALK re u series – ushering in key events in the upcoming week – and the MusicAlive series, aiming to present live music to a wider audience.
Gaulitana is renowned for having, in the past years, brought the arts closer to the younger generation through its GAULearn project, particularly through #opera4me - adapted opera performances for the discovery of schoolchildren.
Gaulitana is supported by the Gozo Cultural Support Programme of Arts Council Malta in collaboration with the Ministry for Gozo. The programme of events may be found at www.gaulitanus.com
Bookings for Manon Lescaut may be done by calling 7904 5779 or online at www.teatruaurora.com/