Berlin What's on
20-23 Oct 2006. The Zentrum Schneweide hosts the second edition of Berlins annual Japan Festival, celebrating Japanese art, culture and way of life from traditional to modern times. Decorative arts in...
Copenhagen What's on
5 Sept-24 Oct 2006. The Royal Danish Theatre presents David Fishelsons adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevskys classic novel The Brothers Karamazov, performed on stage in Scandinavia for the first time. The...
Copenhagen What's on
28 Sept-26 Oct 2006. One of the 20th centurys most important musical figures, Dmitri Shostakovich, is celebrated in a season of concerts in the Swedish/Danish cross-border resund region to mark the 10...
Amsterdam What's on
28 Sept-29 Oct 2006. The CREA Theatre hosts the Queens English Theatre Company (QETC) in a performance of Harvey Fiersteins classic gay comedy/drama Torch Song Trilogy. First performed in New York in...
Berlin What's on
Puccinis Tosca at the Berlin Staatsoper.
6-31 Oct 2006. Kristina Opolais plays the role of Tosca in this production of Giacomo Puccinis famous opera at the Berlin Staatsoper. Set in Rome in 1800, the plot revolves around the famous singer Fl...
Madrid What's on
El Trazo Oculto - The Hidden Outline.
21 July-5 Nov 2006. Using an infra-red technique originally developed by the University of Milan, this unique exhibition reveals the drawings and sketches that lie beneath the painted surface of some...
London What's on
21 Sept-5 Nov 2006. Venues across London including the Roundhouse, the Barbican, The Place, Sadlers Wells and the South Bank Centre are hosting Dance Umbrella 2006, the British capitals annual festiva...
Madrid What's on
11 Oct-9 Nov 2006. One of the most important performing arts events in Spain, the Festival de Otoo, is now in its 23rd year. Thirty-eight shows, 138 events and 36 world premieres with international co...
Dublin What's on
25 Oct-25 Nov 2006. Winner of the Tony award for Best New Play, John Patrick Shanleys Doubt comes to The Abbey Theatre in a production starring Brd Brennan, Gemma Reeves and Aidan Kelly. Set in a Cath...
Paris What's on
Photographs at the Pompidou Centre.
27 Sept-27 Nov 2006. "Peintres de la vie moderne" is the title of this major exhibition of around 700 new photographic works recently acquired by the Centre Pompidou. The show has been organized aroun...
Vienna What's on
25 Sept-26 Dec 2006. Composed in 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts opera buffa The Marriage of Figaro is presented by the Volksoper Wien featuring Austrian bass-baritone Josef Wagner in the title role, w...
London What's on
The John Pilger Film Festival.
14-21 Sept 2006. The work of veteran campaigning journalist and film maker John Pilger is celebrated in this festival of documentary films covering the period 1970-2006. Pilger introduces the opening...
Oxford What's on
18-23 Sept 2006. Sir Peter Hall directs Samuel Becketts seminal play, the tragic-comedy Waiting for Godot, at the Oxford Playhouse. On a deserted road two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, meet by a bare...
Dublin What's on
12-23 Sept 2006. As part of the Samuel Beckett centenary celebrations, the Gate Theatre presents Barry McGovern starring in Ill Go On, a selection of texts from the prose trilogy Molloy (1951), Malone...
Vienna What's on
9 Sept-11 Oct 2006. Carole Alston stars in this one-woman Tribute to A Blue Lady at Viennas English Theatre. Featuring some of Billie Holidays most memorable songs including God Bless the Child, Lover...
Dublin What's on
7-12 Oct 2006. Lyric Opera Productions present Giacomo Puccinis great tragic opera Madama Butterfly at Dublins National Concert Hall for three performances only. Based on a short story by John Luther...
Madrid What's on
27 Sept-15 Oct 2006. The acclaimed Covent Garden Opera House production of Richard Strausss Ariadne auf Naxos directed by Christof Loy comes to the Teatro Real. First performed in 1912, Strausss opera...
Oxford What's on
Oxford Contemporary Music caf concerts.
5 Oct- 23 Nov 2006. Modern Art Oxford (MAO) gallery hosts Thurs afternoon sessions of contemporary music and jazz in the relaxed surroundings of the MAO caf. Featured artistes include electronica soun...
