Gozo - One Island, Two Opera Houses | | Annual singing match for the best Verdi performance

Opera-crazy volunteers and amateur musicians engaging in the annual tussle for the best Verdi performance. A film about no-holds-barred commitment, a passionate love of music and the rivalry between the Astra and Aurora opera houses. Subscribe to wocomoMUSIC: https://goo.gl/ahZRzC Follow us on Facebook:   / wocomo   The small island of Gozo (right next to Malta) has 30,000 inhabitants and two opera houses. This means it has more opera per square mile than any other place in the world. The organization, the staging, and much of the singing are all done by amateurs. The only trouble is, there is no love lost between the two houses. There are two conductors, two choruses, two teams of stage workers and organizers and behind it all two rival clans whose sole ambition every year is to come out on top in the great operatic singing match. But there is one thing they do have to share: the orchestra. Malta only has one to its name. In the middle of the fray, we find Maltese star tenor Joseph Calleja. As a teenager, he earned his singing spurs in Gozo, and now he comes back to the island every year to act as a mediator. © 2016, Lizenz Sounding Images