Agape Festival celebrates Malta’s Pauline identity
Fondazzjoni Paulus is presenting the tenth edition of its annual Rabat Agape Festival – an arts and culture celebration during the months of January and February. This festival celebrates the feasts of the Conversion and Shipwreck of St. Paul and promotes the artistic heritage of the Maltese islands. The highlight of this year’s festival is the annual concert of sacred music featuring the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Christopher Muscat and the New Choral Singers choir led by Mauro Farrugia. This concert, at St Paul’s Basilica in Rabat, is being held on February 3 at 7.30pm. The repertoire of this concert includes an orchestral suite from Il Divin Poema by Carmelo Pace, Joseph Vella’s Music for a White Dove, Paul Portelli’s L-X ta’ Frar 1926, Joseph Abela Scolaro’s Innu Ċentinarju Pawlin 1960 written for the Pauline centenary celebrations of that same year and his Cantata San Pawl. The concert will also include a monologue about St Paul interpreted by actor Mario Micallef and a number of audio-visual features. This concert is being held under the patronage of Mgr Savio Hon Tai-Fai SDB, Apostolic Nuncio to Malta, and is organised with the cooperation of...