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A venue for new energy and new values: the Metropolitan Theatre in Tirana

 

Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 24 September 2009

After serving with heart and soul as the director of the Albanian national theatre and suffering a serious car accident, which almost took his life, Kico Londo (48) embraced a daring initiative – that of founding a breakthrough theatre “of new energy and new values” which he named the Metropolitan.

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Olta Gixhari – Albania’s rising theatre star

 

Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 17 September 2009

She is beautiful and talented. Olta Gixhari, 23, from the coastal city of Durres, some 30 km from Albanian capital Tirana, tasted fame early when she was still in college. She was offered the role of Catherine in “A View from the Bridge” by the American playwright Arthur Miller, and she loved it.

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Album Competition

Inva Mula

Inva Mula, born in Tirana, Albania in 1963, is one of the leading sopranos of her generation. Famous to filmgoers as the voice featured in the Diva Dance in Luc Besson’s Fifth Element, she has performed to great acclaim across the world, and is a regular performer at La Scala in Milan. Her album Il bel sogno is performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ivo Lipanović and features famous arias by Puccini, Gounod, Massenet and Verdi.

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Upcoming events

One World Human Rights Film Festival, 12-16 December

The One World Human Rights Festival will take place in Pristina from 12-16 December. Its aim is to promote human rights, freedoms, and democracy, but also to feature meaningful debates on issues like human rights, civil society, foreign policy, environmental policy, etc.

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Tirana International Film Festival, 5-10 December

The Tirana International FIlm Festival (TIFF) is the first international cinema festival of its kind in Albania and will be held from 5-10 December

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Recipe of the month

Serbian Cheese Pita (Gibanica)

Gibanica is a delicious pastry made with Serbian white cheese and can be made for a festive occasion or as a comforting familiar snack.

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