Madrid What's on
30 Jan-26 Feb 2006. Artistes from Europe and South America are participating in the sixth edition of the Alternative Festival of Performance Art in venues throughout Madrid. Directed by Mateo Feijo, t...
Madrid What's on
11-26 Jan 2006.
Internationally renowned conductor, Ion Marin, directs the Madrid Symphony Orchestra in El sueo de una noche de verano A Midsummer Nights Dream - at the Teatro Real. This opera in 3...
Madrid What's on
9-13 Feb 2006.
This is the 25th edition of Madrids annual contemporary art event, which attracts art professionals and visitors from all over the world. 250 galleries of avant-garde, modern, contempo...
Madrid What's on
5 Jan 2006. Epiphany is more important to Spanish children than Christmas Day, when Santa Claus, who is fundamentally a northern European import, leaves just a token gift for them. The real day for Ch...
Madrid What's on
19th Century Spanish Art at the Prado.
13 Dec 2005-12 March 2006. To celebrate the centenary of a bequest made to the Prado in 1904 by Ramn de Errazu, a wealthy art collector based in Paris, the museum is holding an exhibition of the 25 wo...
Madrid What's on
Cortos en La Casa - Monday film nights.
5-26 Dec 2005. La Casa Encendida presents a series of international short films belonging to the horror and black comedy genres every Mon night during Dec. The English-language titles include The carp...
Madrid What's on
10 Dec 2005-22 Jan 2006. The Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid presents La Verbena de la Paloma as its Christmas season offering this year. Zarzuela is the Spanish form of operetta, involving dialogue,...
Madrid What's on
1-23 Dec 2005. Madrids Theatre Real presents Giuseppe Verdis rarely performed melodrama Luisa Miller in a production originally designed by the San Francisco Opera in 2000. Set in the Tyrol in the fir...
Madrid What's on
Don Quixote and Contemporary Spanish Art.
9 Nov 2005-13 Feb 2006. Twenty of Spains most outstanding contemporary artists have been invited to give their personal interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes seminal work Don Quixote de la Mancha in t...
Madrid What's on
Raphael Portrait of a Young Man, 1518-19
18 Oct 2005-15 Jan 2006. The Thyssen-Bornemisza museums 17th Contexts exhibition from the permanent collection is dedicated to Raffaello Sanzio, one of the most important artists of the Italian Renais...
Madrid What's on
3-6 Nov 2005. Covering 25,000 sqm at the Fiera de Madrid, this massive exhibition of leisure and competitive sports has something for active participants and spectators alike. Apart from the space ded...
Madrid What's on
Until 29 Oct 2005.
The Galera Helga de Alvear presents an exhibition by artists Slater Bradley, Fernando Bryce, Marcel Dzama, Mark Lombardi, Francesc Ruiz and Johanes Wohnseifer. In Tres o Cuatro His...
Madrid What's on
Until 30 Oct 2005. Music, stories, cinema and photographs comprise the month-long Ciclo de Teatro Chileno. "My first impulse was to bring together Chilean artists from various disciplines who live in...
Madrid What's on
Until 20 Nov 2005. The Casa de Amrica presents an exhibition of 52 photographs by Frida Kahlo, one of the most important painters in Latin American history. A model from an early age, she learned to p...
Madrid What's on
Until 27 Oct 2005. Galera Oliva Arauna presents the latest work from artist Alicia Martn, who focuses on how objects belong in everyday places. Ever since her work involving a cascade of books falling...
Madrid What's on
From 27 Sept 2005.
The tension of a drama such as La curva de la felicidad, by Eduardo Galn and Pedro Gmez, illustrates the complexities of writing in tandem as they seek to cover a mid-life crisis....
Madrid What's on
From 28 Sept 2005. For the first time Miguel Mihuras signature work, Maribel y la extraa familia, can be enjoyed with music, dance and songs. First produced in 1959, Maribel has been adapted into a mu...
Madrid What's on
10 Sept-2 Oct 2005. With choreography by Javier Latorre and stage direction by Emilio Hernndez, Tarantos is a passionate tale of love and hate between two young gypsies. It is based on the book 'La hi...
Madrid What's on
15 Sept-9 Oct 2005. The Nacional de Teatro Clsico opens its 2005/2006 season with a production of Lope de Vegas 'Fuente Ovejuna' by Ramn Sim and Juan Mayorga. Attracting major critical acclaim on its...
Madrid What's on
15 Sept-30 Oct 2005. Directed by Luis Olmos, this play centres on a couple that has lived together for almost 40 years. 'La retirada de Mosc' based on the eponymous book is about a marriage falling...
