Maltese critic Albert G. Storace reviews the production of Il Trovatore as part of Gaulitana: A Festival of Music 2026
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The performance of Verdi’s Il Trovatore at Gozo’s Aurora Opera House was the penultimate event of the 19th edition of the Gaulitana Festival of Music whose Artistic Director Colin Attard was also at the helm of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (leader Marcelline Agius).
While the opera was staged to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi in 1901, this production marked the 10th Gaulitana Festival’s opera performance staged towards the end of every edition since 2015. The series was interrupted in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid. Every performance has also been preceded by a pre-opera talk.


