What’s on in Malta and Gozo – November 3

MUSIC

The Three Palaces Early Opera and Music Festival

Festivals Malta is holding a programme of opera and music until November 12. Today, the British vocal ensemble ORA Singers will perform at St John’s Co-Cathedral, at 7.30pm.

Titled Fear and Trust, their concert will celebrate the music of William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, who lived in fear of persecution during a time of religious extremism. The concert also includes some modern reflections. The festival will continue tomorrow with the oratorio Rewwixta by Joseph Vella at the Mdina Cathedral at 7.30pm and Handel’s opera Partenope at the Manoel Theatre tomorrow. The opera will also be staged on Sunday.

For more information and tickets, visit festivals.mt/ttp.

FILM

Spazju Kreattiv is today screening Anya Reiss's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's tale of love and loneliness, The Seagull, starring Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clark in her West End debut.

The play is about a young woman, who is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams...