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2019 SEASON ‘Casa Cassar’, Triq il-Vittorja, Valletta VLT 1050 pjazzateatrurjal.mt [email protected] +356 2247 8100 WELCOME It is with great pride and pleasure that we welcome you to Pjazza Teatru Rjal’s 2019 artistic season. Pjazza Teatru Rjal strives to This booklet will guide you through the main highlights and provide you with useful and practical attain cultural excellence by information on every performance. providing a diverse programme Although all information in this booklet is correct at the time of printing, producers reserve the right to make certain changes. We therefore ask you to kindly check Pjazza Teatru Rjal’s website for the latest of the highest possible calibre updates. topped up with the exceptional In order to ensure that your experience at Pjazza Teatru Rjal is a most enjoyable one we invite you to and unique experience of an read through the theatre’s house rules that are available for download on our website as purchasing of open air performance space tickets or attendance at Pjazza Teatru Rjal implies the acceptance of these regulations. within Malta’s capital city. We thank you for your support and we look forward to welcoming you at Pjazza Teatru Rjal. Besides having been an important highest possible calibre.” Moreover, our venue offers the exceptional contribution towards Valletta 18’s calendar, and unique experience of an open air performance space within Pjazza Teatru Rjal’s artistic season for 2018 Malta’s capital city that contribute in no small measure towards was yet another important milestone making every performance at Pjazza Teatru Rjal – whether it is in the theatre’s success story featuring music or dance, film or musical theatre, educational programmes or important international artistes such television shows – that little bit more special. as Igudesman & Joo, The Swingles, Jazz musicians Bertil Strandberg and My thanks go to the authorities, to my colleagues on the Board of Stjepko Gut, Hungaro-Ukranian violinist Directors and to all the staff who make the whole calendar of events Edvin Marton and pianist Balázs Havasi possible. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank producers amongst others. and cultural organisations for their full collaboration throughout the season. This year’s calendar is no less attractive. It is proof of Pjazza Teatru Rjal’s Charles Gatt commitment towards its mission, that Chairman of “attaining cultural excellence by providing a diverse programme of the Pjazza Teatru Rjal has, by now, firmly established itself as one of Malta’s of activities that include workshops and foremost cultural contributors, not only in the summer months with a educational projects by musicians of the varied artistic programme but also during the colder months through Malta Concert Orchestra, job exposure its Iljieli fit-Teatru Series. Whilst carrying on from last year’s success, and job shadowing opportunities for this year’s series will delve into new art forms such as film-making the students as well as curriculum and cartoon art. development opportunities. The Malta Concert Orchestra continues to be of fundamental Allow me to show my appreciation to importance towards the success of L-Għanja tal-Poplu both in the the Ministry for Justice, Culture and youth (March) and adult (August) editions of the festival. This year’s Local Government, Arts Council Malta orchestral calendar will include annual appointments such as MCO and PTR Board for their support, to Pop, Suċċessi Maltin, Notte Italiana and A Night at the Musicals, concerts our ever growing audience and to the featuring the MCO Big Band as well as a repeat of last year’s extremely Management and Staff of Pjazza Teatru successful Christmas “on the move”. Rjal for making it all happen. Pjazza Teatru Rjal will also continue its collaborative relation with the Christopher Muscat Ministry for Education that sees both entitites engaging in a number Director A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 1877 theatre reopens following 1873 extensive restoration works theatre accidentally catches fire 1866 and its interior is extensively damaged inauguration 1861 of the Royal Opera House design by English architect Edward Middleton Barry 1942 theatre destroyed in an aerial attack 2008 during the 2nd World War Renzo Piano commissioned 1895 2006 to design the Valletta City electricity replaces the use of gas government announces a Gate project to illuminate the theatre proposal to redevelop the site 2013 inauguration of Pjazza Teatru Rjal ORGANISATION PJAZZA TEATRU RJAL BOARD ADMINISTRATION Chairman Charles Gatt Director Christopher Muscat Members Norbert Attard Admin & Operations Officer Dorothy Camilleri Jesmond Aquilina Administrative Assistant Mario Fardell Annabel Brincat Stellini Technical Executive Charles Aquilina Joseph Camilleri Tradesman/Stage Crew Francis Camilleri Stephanie Fenech Associate Conductors Paul Abela Clifford Galea Joe Brown Brigitte Gauci Borda Orchestra co-ordinator Emanuel Spagnol Joseph Piscopo George Zahra L-GĦANJA TAL-POPLU ŻGĦAŻAGĦ Friday 15th March l 19:30h l Kulleġġ San Benedittu, Kirkop Malta Concert Orchestra l Joe Brown conductor Festival L-Għanja tal-Poplu, Pjazza Teatru Rjal and Kulleġġ San Benedittu – with the support of the Ministry for Education and Employment, Aġenzija Żgħażagħ and L-Akkademja tal-Malti – have teamed up to provide this unique platform to young singers, composers and authors. Youths aged 11 to 16 will perform original songs in Maltese accompanied live by an ensemble of musicians from the Malta Concert Orchestra. NICKELODEON TREASURE HUNT MALTA 2019 STAGE SHOW! Saturday 13th April l 12:00h, 16:00h, 18:00h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal Sunday 14th April l 12:00h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal For the first time ever, Nickelodeon is bringing its stage show to Malta. Join your favourite Nickelodeon characters as they take to the stage for a show filled with fun and laughter. MCO POP Friday 26th April l 20:30h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal Malta Concert Orchestra l Joe Brown conductor Singers Jackie Pace Delicata, Angela Tirchett, Josef Tabone, Clive Muscat, Ozzy Lino and Jasmine Abela will be joining the Malta Concert Orchestra on stage to perform some of the all time pop music favourites such as Eye in the Sky, Can’t Stop the Feeling, Hey Jude, Uptown Funk and much more. VOYAGER: AN INTROSPECTIVE JOURNEY Friday 3rd May l 21:00h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal In 1977 Carl Sagan was invited by NASA to curate a time capsule to be sent into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft to give a snapshot of Earth’s diversity, sounds, feelings and thoughts through 116 images. Fascinated by this intriguing event, ŻfinMalta’s artistic director and choreographer Paolo Mangiola, has teamed up with visual artist Austin Camilleri to an original electro-acoustic score by Veronique Vella with costumes designed by Luke Azzopardi. Voyager propels its audience into a place of introspection and exploration of what it means to be human, reflecting on who we are as actors on a small stage in a vast cosmic arena; a fragile, pale blue dot in the enveloping darkness. Pjazza Teatru Rjal and ŻfinMalta are proud to present this dance work by an exceptional team of local creatives. JAZZ JAMBOREE SUĊĊESSI MALTIN Friday 17th May l 20:00h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal Friday 24th May l 20:30h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal Malta Concert Orchestra l Paul Abela conductor Concert Climat is a powerful musical evocation of humanity's struggle The Malta Concert Orchestra, under the direction of Paul Abela, will with the consequences of climate change. A trilogy of suites for jazz bring back to life some of Malta’s best-loved and evergreen songs septet, the music was composed by French-American pianist and performed live by the Greenfields, Mary Spiteri, Mary Rose Mallia and trombonist Joe Makholm and premiered by the Paris Jazz Repertory Tony Camilleri (L-Għannej). Septet during the COP21 Paris climate conference in December 2015. Local jazz group Lieder Project will also be performing in this concert. Free Entrance SING AND SWING Friday 6th June l 20:30h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal Massimo Lopez l MCO Big Band l Gabriele Comeglio Massimo Lopez, crooner and showman like no other, performs a selection of swing classics, in which he will revisit the milestones of some of the all-time greats such as Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Rodgers and others. A series of successes ranging from the 30’s to the 50’s, made famous by great performers like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, and Sammy Davis jr such as “Fly me to the moon”, “My way”, “I’ve got you under my skin” and “Theme from New York, New York” to mention but a few. Lopez’s love for this style was cultivated for many years before it blossomed thanks to the collaboration with one of the most prestigious Italian jazz and swing formations, the Jazz Company led by Gabriele Comeglio who will also be leading the Big Band of the Malta Concert Orchestra in this spectacular concert. Comeglio’s illustrious career included collaborations with Grammy Award winners such as Bob Mintzer and Dee Dee Bridgewater and with important Italian pop stars such as Fabio Concato, Lucio Dalla, Mina, Ron and Franco Battiato amongst others. A real “one-man show” of songs, sympathy, elegance and comedy. In typical Massimo Lopez fashion, the concert will include funny gags, monologues and the same irresistible, trademark imitations that had led him to great TV success fusing the great Sinatra- Bennet-Davis masterpieces with imitations of politicians past and present, from Antonio Di Pietro and Romano Prodi to Giuseppe Conte as well as some of the great Popes in history. MISS WORLD MALTA Saturday 8th June l 21:00h l Pjazza Teatru Rjal Organised by Modelle International, Maltese contestants will vie for the Miss World Malta titles and the right to represent Malta in the biggest and most prestigious beauty pageant world-wide which is viewed by over 2.5 billion tele-viewers.