It was 100% in-house and un-promoted to the wider audience but a special recital nonetheless. Friday 22nd April 2022 was an important date in the academic calendar of our youngsters at the Aurora Opera House and our parent organisation, the Leone Philharmonic Society.
It was a very moving weekend for the Leone Band and all of us at the Aurora as we went through three different musical engagements between Saturday and Monday. As announced, the Aurora’s own Leone Band presented its annual concert of sacred music and reflections at the Gozo Cathedral Church on Saturday 9th April, 2022, eve of Palm
There go our youngsters with their wish and a prayer for world peace: Light a candle for peace. This is the cry of the children forming the junior chorus of the Aurora Opera House. We’ve seen them performing in the big opera on our stage. But we’ve also seen them doing their smaller productions of their own.
It was indeed a very lovely evening as the Aurora opened its doors to host the Gaulitana: Festival of Music, as it opened its 15th edition with From the New World: a symphonic opening. Far from full to the brim, but brimming with excitement as we return to some semblance of normality after (if we may say so)
As we watch the world news unfold in front of our eyes, we cannot but help revert to the Lord and pray for peace; not that the lack of it is any of the Lord’s doing. As an artistic institution, we stand for the promotion of culture and identity that brings people together
