Rachel Fabri most recently played the iconic role of Maria in The Sound of Music whilst Nadia Vella is currently taking on the role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (Malta). Rachel: Rachel is mostly known for being a musical theatre and classical-crossover artiste from Malta. She completed a Masters in Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting (UK) and was Head of Music at Masquerade School for the Performing Arts for the past four years. She also graduated with a Psychology (Hons) degree from the University of Malta. Rachel is also a singer-songwriter and most recently released her single Let You Go, which is available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and Google Play. Music video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJPnLYyxdc Rachel also formed part of the classical crossover quartet All Angels, with whom she performed with for four years, at such prestigious venues as Wembley Stadium (Champions League Final 2011) in front of 90,000 live spectators and millions of TV viewers, in front of over 20,000 people at the 02 Arena, Manchester Arena, Sheffield Arena, Birmingham LG Arena, the House of Commons and the Royal Albert Hall. She has performed alongside leading artistes such as Alexandra Burke, Katherine Jenkins, Dionne Bromfield, Dame Shirley Bassey, Tinchy Stryder, Ruth Lorenzo and Lesley Garrett. As part of All Angels, Rachel has performed on BBC’s The One Show, a Channel 4 feature on All Angels and at the Classic Brit Awards at the Royal Albert Hall. The group recorded an EP together called ‘Starlight’ which they launched at Covent Garden’s Apple Store. Rachel most recently played the iconic role of MARIA Von Trapp in The Sound of Music at the MCC (Grapevine Music) last October. Andre Delicata, for The Times of Malta: "...Maria, played by the wonderful Rachel Fabri - whose clear, pure tones certainly do justice to the character - which is no easy task, as the Julie Andrews comparison is inevitable. However, Fabri made the role Maria her very own..." Just before playing the role of Maria, Rachel portrayed a rather different character, that of the spunky Regina in Malta's longest running musical Rock of Ages (TAC Theatre). Rachel also recently featured as a soloist in the popular ROCKESTRA 2016 alongside Malta's leading artists and the MPO. UK theatre roles include lead in Persephone (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), the lead ‘Cassie’ in Make Believe at the Henley Festival and the Young Girl in Anything Goes at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. Rachel also played ‘Cockney Girl’ in Me and My Girl at the London Palladium, ‘Polly Browne’ in The Boyfriend, ‘Oolie’ in City of Angels and ‘Rachel’ in When Midnight Strikes amongst others. She particularly enjoyed touring as a guest soloist in the UK tour of Beyond the Barricade and another career highlight for Rachel was singing and acting alongside Dominic Cooper and Philip Quast in the Lee Tamahori film ‘The Devil’s Double’ playing Arabic singer Abdel Akle, where she was required to sing in Arabic. Rachel has appeared in many theatrical roles in Malta – some of these include being a guest artiste in Teatru Unplugged 16, performing alongside Kim Criswell at the HSBC Summer Concert with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and performing as a soloist at the Orchestra’s Movie Spectacular. She was the main soloist in the musical revues Simply Webber and Comedy Tonight and played Princesses Snow White in the popular Christmas pantomime The Curse of Snow White (2012/3) and Princess Bianca in the pantomime Sleeping Beauty (2005/6). Rachel took on the role of Catherine in '1565 The Musical in Concert' alongside the MPO. She also formed part of the Animae Gospel Choir and was a featured soloist in the Choir's concerts in October 2015 at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Malta. In 2015, Rachel took on the challenging role of Cathy in the Jason Robert Brown two-person musical 'The Last Five Years' which was held in November 2015 at the Blue Box in Malta (Masquerade Theatre Company). Andre Delicata, for The Times of Malta, wrote of Rachel's portrayal of Cathy: "Fabri's voice was genuine in her rendition of 'Still Hurting'..and Fabri's performance was heartfelt and solid and her enthusiastic 'Goodbye Until Tomorrow'..held the promise of a tenderly budding relationship". Jes Camilleri, for The Sunday Times of Malta: "Rachel Fabri was a great Cathy, quietly emotional in her heart-wrenching delivery of her opening song 'Still Hurting' and hilariously comical in her excellent 'Audition Sequence'." Rachel is signed to the internationally-renowned Eclipse Artists Agency. Focusing now on several solo projects, Rachel is delighted to have recorded her first solo album called ‘Forever Yours’ which is doing very well both in Malta and overseas. She released the album by means of highly successful launch concerts both in Malta, at Maria Rosa Wine Estate, as well as in the UK, at The Pheasantry in London. The album as well as the album's launch received lots of praise - Christina Lejman for The Times of Malta: "Both the event and the album it celebrated were well-executed and chock-full of talent." The 'Forever Yours' album as well as a few singles are available for online purchase via iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon and Spotify. Nadia: Nadia started her musical theatre training at a young age at Masquerade Theatre Arts School Malta and vocal coaching with soprano Gillian Zammit. At the age of 11 she played ‘Annie’ at the Manoel Theatre back in 1997. Further roles include ‘Annie’ in ‘The Ragged Child,’ ‘Rubette’ in ‘The Little Shop of Horrors,’ ‘Kit-kat girl’ in ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Morgiana’ in ‘Tin Pan Ali,’ ‘Clara’ in the opera ‘Werther,’ ‘Agnes’ in ‘Agnes of God’ as well as appearing as a soloist in ‘Beyond the Barricade’ all at the Manoel Theatre. She then worked again with Andy Reiss, of Beyond the Barricade in 2001 as a soloist in 'Christmas with Beyond the Barricade,' (Andy Reiss, University of Malta Campus Theatre.) She has performed in ‘The Young People’s Messiah’ and played ‘Mary’ in ‘Rock Nativity,’ at St. James Cavalier. Nadia was a finalist in the 1st edition of ‘L-Isfida’ on Net Television. Whilst sitting for her Musical Theatre diploma course at Hertfordshire Theatre School roles under training included 'Soloist' in 'Musical Moments,' (Anne Marie Lewis Thomas, Queen Mother Theatre) 'Angel' in 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,' (Jack Gunn, Queen Mother Theatre) 'Maria' in Lorca's 'Yerma,' (Kirk Foster, Market Theatre) 'Countess de la Roche Piquet' in 'Don Juan on Trial,' (Simon Bell, Market Theatre) 'Lydia' in 'Pride and Prejudice,' (Kirk Foster, Market Theatre) 'Maggie' in 'Matchgirls' (Pete Gallagher, QMT) 'Helene' in 'Sweet Charity,' (Kirk Foster, QMT) 'Catherine' in 'Memory of Water,' (Mark Stobbart, QMT) 'Milena' in 'Once we were mothers,' (Iain Jones, John Gardiner Studio) 'Soloist' in 'World War 2 Revue' (Kirk Foster, Market Theatre) 'Ghost of Christmas Past' in 'Scroogie Poogie TIE tour' (Self directed) 'Medea' in 'Moments from Medea' (Hilary Lyons, Market Theatre) 'Soloist' in 'Noel Coward Revue.' (Jo Croydon Foster, Market Theatre.) Nadia was lucky enough to work with people like Sebastian Abineri, Russell Labey, Frank Thompson, Jenny Gould, Tim Whiting, Bernard Sharpe, Laurence Broomfield, Sam Lavender, Denise Mulholland and appeared twice in front of resident judges of 'Over the Rainbow' Jacqui Hancock and David Grindrod. Since graduating, she has performed at the Broadway Theatre(UK) as a soloist in ‘Something Wonderful’ directed by Richard Ward Roden (Md, Les Miserables), ‘Zerlina’ in the original cast of ‘The Lovers’ Inn’ 'Elphaba' in 'Encore' directed by Helene Crosse at the Campus West Theatre in Welwyn Garden City and performed for two months in Hamburg’s ‘Weinachtcircus’ as well as being one of the 100 finalists in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Over the Rainbow.’ Whilst in Malta during 2010-2011 she performed acoustic sets with Maltese guitarist Keith 'Kiko' Muscat, played 'Ruth' in the Easter time play 'Is it Me?' (Marc Cabourdin, St. James Cavallier) and was a judge on local tv talent competition 'Arpeġġi' - Net TV Malta.