 Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to welcome you all to the opening concert of the European Cultural Days 2015. This is the 13th edition of the Cultural Days and we continue to hold firm to the original idea behind the first series of events back in 2003. That is to highlight unity in diversity and to showcase a Europe whose regions can celebrate their cultural individuality while still sharing common values and ideas. Ladies and gentlemen, we discover Malta. In almost no other country in this size there is such a density of culture and art and that is what every year 1 million tourists unlock. Tonight we begin our Cultural Days journey on a high note. As President Draghi has just said, we are honored to have with us here at the Alta Ope, the internationally renowned tenor Joseph Kalleia Maltas, Cultural Ambassador who will be accompanied by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Brian Schkenberg. Now not only a Maltese orchestra, Maltese conductor, Maltese tenor, but a Maltese song. From Maestro Joseph Vella, Il Kepista Alfanali.