Performers' Platform Concert Series

The St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta has a commitment to discovering, nurturing and promoting new talents and the Performers' Platform Concert Series gives up and coming musicians the opportunity to perform in a professional environment in the Music room at the centre to an appreciative audience. Lunchtime Wednesday Concerts feature an extraordinarily wide range of performers and repertoire, starting October 7 and running through May 2010.
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New York’s Met Opera in Malta

The New York Metropolitan Opera's experiment of merging film with live performance has created a new art form. The groundbreaking series of live, high-definition Saturday performance transmissions into movie theatres in more than 35 countries around the world has enjoyed box office success, reaching an estimated audience of more than 1.1 million viewers last year. In 2009-10, the Met offers its fourth season of international HD transmissions -this time with nine broadcasts. In Malta, you can watch live Met’s thrilling, world-class opera at Valletta’s St. James Cavalier Centre.
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Izzo’s empty spaces

Creating art out of absolute emptiness is what Maltese designer and artist Jean Karl Izzo does best and this is what he wants us to witness in his first solo show hosted at the Upper Galleries of the St James Cavalier Centre in Valletta. Izzo’s exhibition, titled Spazi, meaning Spaces, will be on show from November 6 to December 13, featuring works on canvas, board and paper with the use of paint and mixed media that reflect his ideas developed within the past four years.
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