Amsterdam What's on
17 Nov 2006-6 Jan 2007. Netherlands Opera present Mozarts opera buffa Cos fan tutte, the first in a cycle by the great composer written in collaboration with Lorenzo da Ponte. The plot revolves around...
Copenhagen What's on
1 Nov 2006-16 Jan 2007. First performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen in 1906, this quintessentially Danish opera in three acts was composed by Carl Nielsen to a libretto by Wilhelm Amdersen. Set...
Barcelona What's on
Gorda (Fat Pig) by Neil LaBute.
4 Nov 2006-4 Feb 2007. Director Magda Puyo has transferred the setting of acerbic New York comedy
Amsterdam What's on
15 Oct 2006-18 March 2007. Two artificial ice rinks are already on offer before the freezing weather turns Amsterdam
Madrid What's on
3-24 Nov 2006. The 23rd Festival de Jazz de Madrid features international jazz names including Keith Jarret, Gary Peacock, Jamie Cullum, Herbie Hancock and Luis Salinas as well as renowned Spanish mus...
Vienna What's on
Wien Modern Contemporary Music Festival.
29 Oct-25 Nov 2006. First conceived by Italian conductor Claudio Abbado in 1988, this annual festival of contemporary music, film, performance and text now attracts around 13,000 visitors each year. W...
Vienna What's on
28 Sept-30 Nov 2006. Viennas Raimund Theatre hosts Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levays adaptation of Daphne du Mauriers popular 1938 novel Rebecca directed by American Francesca Zambello and designed b...
Paris What's on
28 Nov-2 Dec 2006. The Cit de la Musique hosts three concerts by major contemporary jazz names from New York. First up is Sex Mob, an experimental four-piece jazz band featuring Steven Bernstein on sl...
Oxford What's on
11 Nov-10 Dec 2006. Blenheim Palace, historic family home of the Duke of Marlborough, opens its doors to the public over the Christmas season. Visitors can wander through the Great Hall, the Long Libr...
Paris What's on
13-27 Dec 2006. Hans Christian Andersens classic fairytale The Little Match-girl comes to the Thtre de la Ville - les Abbesses in a music theatre adaptation by British director Dan Jemmett and Martyn...
Madrid What's on
17 Oct 2006-8 Jan 2007. This exhibition at Madrids Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa covers six decades of the work of celebrated British artist Howard Hodgkin (London 1932). Tracing the develo...
London What's on
18 Oct 2006-21 Jan 2007. The National Gallery hosts a major exhibition of work by the great Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Vel
Oxford What's on
22 Nov 2006-18 Feb 2007. British drawings and watercolours acquired by the Ashmolean Museum over the past six years are on display in the temporary exhibition rooms. Dating from the 17th to the 20th c...
Dublin What's on
25 Nov 2006. The Mozart Festival Orchestra performs two concerts of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts best-loved works at Dublins National Concert Hall. Dressed in full 18th-century costume and playing by cand...
Amsterdam What's on
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
23 Nov-3 Dec 2006. Now in its 19th edition, IDFA is the worlds largest documentary film festival, with around 125,000 visitors each year. The 2006 festival opens with 4 Elements by Dutch filmmaker Jik...
Barcelona What's on
13 Nov-4 Dec 2006. Gaetano Donizettis famous tragic opera Lucia di Lammermoor comes to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in a production by the Opernhaus Zrich, directed by Robert Carsen. Based on Sir Walter...
Berlin What's on
Dance works by Jerome Robbins.
4 Nov-5 Dec 2006. Berlins Staatsballetts perform three dance works by acclaimed American choreographer Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. The first piece, entitled The Conc...
Amsterdam What's on
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
6 Dec 2006-1 Jan 2007. Het Nationale Ballet company performs the Dutch interpretation of the classic Nutcracker fairytale, setting the action in an Amsterdam canal house around 1810. Designed and chor...
Copenhagen What's on
9 Nov 2006-6 Jan 2007. London Toast, Copenhagens English theatre company, comes to Tivoli Gardens Glassalen Theatre with a Tolkien send-up entitled Bored of the Rings. Written and directed by Vivienne...
