Paris What's on
17 June-4 July 2006. Pina Bausch and her famous Tanztheater Wuppertal return to the Thtre de la Ville with Rough Cut, created during the German dance companys residence in Seoul in 2005. Set to a cros...
Amsterdam What's on
27 June-9 July 2006. Gioacchino Rossinis comic opera The Barber of Seville is presented by De Nederlandse Opera in a revival of its 2000 production designed and directed by Italian Nobel prize-winner...
Berlin What's on
12 April-10 July 2006. This exhibition at Berlins Martin-Gropius-Bau gallery explores art and culture in Papal Rome, with over 300 art works on loan from the Vatican Museums, the Fabbrica di San Pietr...
Paris What's on
27 June-11 July 2006. The fourth edition of the Paris Cinema Festival offers over 450 films in 20 venues around the French capital. Directed by Costa-Gavras, the programme includes an official selecti...
Vienna What's on
29 June-16 July 2006. The 16th edition of the Vienna Jazz Festival begins at 17.00 on 29 June with a free concert at Hof im Museumsquartier featuring Latin, pop and jazz from US musician Raul Midon an...
Copenhagen What's on
23 June-16 July 2006. Copenhagen International Theatre presents a festival of New Circus focussing on the individual artist, with intimate performances in tiny venues. The opening event on 23 June is...
London What's on
27 June-23 July 2006. The Almeida Theatre opens its 15th season of modern opera and new music theatre with Les Aveugles (The Blind) by Swiss composer Xavier Dayer, performed by the Paris Operas acclai...
Barcelona What's on
25 June-5 Aug 2006. The 30th edition of the Barcelona Grec international arts festival presents over 50 different theatre, dance and music events at 15 venues across the Catalan capital. Programme hig...
Berlin What's on
27 May-9 Sept 2006. This year the annual festival on Berlins Museum Island has been extended to include the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz, which hosts concerts throughout the World Cup football compe...
Barcelona What's on
Repblica! Political posters (1931-1939).
20 April-11 Sept 2006. The Museum of Catalan History (Museo de Historia de Cataluna) presents an exhibition of Republican posters entitled Repblica! Cartells i cartellistes (1931-1939) documenting the...
London What's on
Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction.
22 June-1 Oct 2006. Focussing on the first half of Wassily Kandinskys career from 1908-1922, this exhibition at the Tate Modern presents over 50 paintings and 30 works on paper by the Russian-born art...
Oxford What's on
26 May-20 Oct 2006. Once a month during the summer the 18th-century Blenheim Palace offers guided tours of the beautiful formal gardens laid out in the 1920s by the 9th Duke of Marlborough with the he...
Vienna What's on
Vienna Boys Choir sings Mozart.
28 April-27 Oct 2006. The world-famous Vienna Boys Choir (Wiener Sngerknaben) together with the Chorus Viennensis made up of former members of the Choir - and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra perform the...
Berlin What's on
9-11 June 2006. Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo took over the direction of the acclaimed Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from Sir Simon Rattle in 1998 after the British conductor became director of the B...
Barcelona What's on
1-11 June 2006. Four cellists and an actor/guide explore the world of the eccentric genius, French musician Erik Satie, in a theatrical performance at Barcelonas Versus Teatre. Entitled Em Dic Erik Sa...
Amsterdam What's on
16-18 June 2006. Around 30 mostly privately owned canal-side gardens are to be opened to the public for three days. Organized by the Amsterdam Canal Museums, this tour through four centuries of garden...
Amsterdam What's on
2-25 June 2006. The Netherlands largest performing arts festival presents 90 shows as well as art exhibitions, film and fringe activities around Amsterdam. Highlights include Peter Greenaways installa...
Berlin What's on
7 June-3 Oct 2006. Over 100 years of artistic, historical and political ties between Japan and Germany are explored in the exhibition Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Stdte at the Neue Nati...
Barcelona What's on
17 May-8 Oct 2006. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona (CCCB) presents an exhibition documenting the lasting effects of the...
Copenhagen What's on
1-4 June 2006. The 25th edition of the annual Copenhagen Carnival and street parade is in the Flledparken, one of the largest parks in the Danish capital, for three days of music and festivities. The...
