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St Petersburg Ballet in Madrid.
27 June-6 Aug 2006. The St Petersburg Ballet performs five ballets including Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet over the six-week season at the Teatro Gran Via. Originally choreographed by award-winning f...
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26 June-19 July 2006. Madrids Teatro Real presents a revival of this popular three-act operetta composed by Federico Moreno Torroba in a co-production with the Washington National Opera and the Los An...
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Picasso. Tradition and avant-garde.
6 June-3 Sept 2006. An exhibition of over 100 masterpieces by the most important Spanish artist of the 20th century are on show at the Museo del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa....
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3-25 June 2006. Two of Shakespeares most famous plays, Hamlet and The Tempest, have been woven together by director Llus Pasqual to create La Tempestrad en Madrid, presented by the Teatro Espaol. The...
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8-30 June 2006. The Teatro Real hosts the acclaimed Netherlands Opera production of Dialogues des Carmlites by Francis Poulenc. Based on historical events that took place at the Carmelite convent in...
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San Isidro Bullfight Festival.
12 May-2 June 2006. The Festival of San Isidro from 12 to 21 May signals the start of 20 consecutive days of top-class bullfighting in La Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas del Espritu Santo, Madrids histor...
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22 March-11 June 2006. Over 140 etchings by the 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt Van Rijn are currently on display at Spains national library. The exhibition, entitled Rembrandt: The Light of Shado...
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8-23 May 2006. The Teatro Real hosts Mozarts comic opera The Abduction from the Seraglio Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail set in the opulent palace of a Turkish Pasha. First produced in 1782, the opera i...
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24 May 2006. Unconventional English classical violinist Nigel Kennedy is performing with the Polish Chamber Orchestra in a one-off concert at the Auditorio Nacional de Msica. The programme includes Ba...
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28 April-28 May 2006. First performed at the Teatro Tvoli de Barcelona in May 1936, this new production of the popular operetta La Tabernera del Porto is directed by Luis Olmos. Telling the story of a...
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30 March-11 June 2006. La Casa Encendida hosts an exhibition entitled De Ida y Vuelta. Africa showing painting, film, video, sculpture and photography by 20 African artists spanning five generations,...
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10 March-1 Dec 2006. Madrid city council is presenting a festival of Mozarts music as part of its programme Distrito Artes aimed at making the arts accessible to all residents. Celebrating the 250th a...
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19-25 April 2006. The Teatro Real hosts the English National Ballets acclaimed production of Tchaikovskys Swan Lake choreographed by Derek Deane based on Frederick Ashton. This production sets the sto...
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22 Feb-15 May 2006. The Teatro Gran Via is hosting three international hit productions for the first edition of its Spring Festival, which celebrates 100 years since the creation of the Gran Via, Madr...
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21 Dec 2005-14 May 2006. The wonders of ancient Egypt are on show at the Centro de Exposiciones Arte Canal in a two-part exhibition including 120 pieces on loan from the Cairo Museum. The first sectio...
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2 Feb-21 May 2006. Over 90 black-and-white photographs by Chema Madoz, winner of the Spanish National Photography prize in 2000, are on show in this exhibition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Cul...
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17 March-2 April 2006. The Ballet Nacional de Espaa is at Teatro de la Zarzuela for two weeks of dance with a distinctive Spanish flavour. Each performance is made up of two separate pieces, both chor...
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17 March-6 Apr 2006. Teatro Real de Madrid presents Giacomo Puccinis well-loved classic La Bohme. Set in the Latin Quarter of early 19th century Paris, the story revolves around the garret life of two...
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14 Feb-14 May 2006. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum hosts this extensive exhibition of avant-garde art from the turbulent early decades of 20th century Russia. Divided into five sections the exhibition...
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Beaux Arts Trio at the Auditorio Nacional.
17-19 Feb 2006. As part of the Music and Myth series, the Orquesta Nacional de Espaa and the National Czech Choir perform Beethovens triple concerto for violin, violoncello, piano and orchestra in D m...
