The beginnings of the Manoel Baroque festival

Abstract

It is encouraging to see that in January 2013 the Manoel Theatre successfully revived the idea of organising a Baroque Festival on a regular basis, the Valletta International Baroque Festival. As one of the founding organisations of a similar, albeit smaller, festival organised between 2001 and 2005, the International Institute for Baroque Studies fully supports this initiative. In 2000, Rev Professor Peter Serracino Inglott and Professor Denis De Lucca, as chairman and director of the Institute, had collaborated with the chairman of the Manoel Theatre, Comm. John Lowell, and its artistic director Tony Cassar Darien, to organise a festival focusing on the Baroque age.