Dublin What's on
6 June-29 Aug 2006. The in-house orchestras of the RT, Irelands national broadcaster, perform lunchtime concerts every Tues at Dublins National Concert Hall throughout the summer. Presented by Liz Nol...
Copenhagen What's on
3 May-30 Aug 2006. Four different venues are hosting concerts of classical music every Wednesday afternoon throughout the summer. The Holmen Kirke on Holmens Canal hosts the May concerts featuring ren...
Dublin What's on
1 Jan-31 Dec 2006. After three years of renovation work, the Laughter Lounge comedy club returns to Eden Quay in central Dublin with a line-up of four top comedians every Thurs, Fri and Sat. Irish com...
Madrid What's on
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...
London What's on
15 May-3 June 2006. The Royal Ballet presents a new production of Tchaikovskys version of the classic fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty at the Covent Garden Opera House to celebrate its 75th anniversary....
Paris What's on
27 May-4 June 2006. The worlds most celebrated bass viol player and a major international figure in early music, Jordi Savall, presents a series of concerts at Pariss Cit de la Musique. The first conc...
Madrid What's on
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...
Oxford What's on
21 May-25 June 2006. Set up in 1986, the Sunday morning classical concerts in the historic surrounds of Oxfords Holywell Music Room have become one of the most successful chamber music series in Brita...
Paris What's on
30 May-15 July 2006. Gaetano Donizettis comic opera in two acts, LElisir damore, is presented by the Opra national de Paris in a new production directed by Edward Gardner. First performed in Milan in...
London What's on
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
12 June-20 Aug 2006. This is the 237th edition of the largest and most popular open art exhibition in the UK, which has been held every year without exception since 1769. The first summer exhibition,...
Oxford What's on
26 May-31 Aug 2006. The River & Rowing Museum at Henley on Thames presents an exhibition of antiquities from the Thames Valley. People throughout the ages have found the Thames Valley a desirable plac...
Vienna What's on
12 May-17 Sept 2006. An exhibition of art from the 1960s and 1970s is on show in Hall One of Viennas Kunstalle exploring the phenomenon of psychedelia and the relationship between contemporary art and...
Vienna What's on
27 Jan-31 Dec 2006. The building at Domgasse 5, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived in style on the first floor from 1784 to 1787, has now become a museum, with four floors of exhibitions dedicated to...
Berlin What's on
18-20 May 2006. The Friends of the Italian Opera Berlin English Theatre present staged readings of three plays by modern Canadian dramatists. First up is Naked West on 18 May, a tale of real men by Ca...
Amsterdam What's on
19-21 May 2006. The BBCs Kate Adie OBE is among the guest authors at the Amsterdam Literary Festival, now in its second edition. The programme includes a screenwriting workshop run by US director Cher...
Barcelona What's on
17-21 May 2006. The Fira de Barcelona hosts the biannual Barcelona Motorcycle Show, MotOh BCN, with around 250 exhibitors and 1,000 bikes on show. All sectors of the motorbike industry are represented...
London What's on
20-21 May 2006. Currently supporting Eric Clapton on his European summer tour, legendary blues guitarist Robert Cray and his band are appearing for two nights only at the Camden Jazz Caf during a brea...
Barcelona What's on
24 March-4 Jun 2006. The work of 1996 Turner Prize-winner Douglas Gordon is featured in this exhibition entitled What you want me to sayI am already dead at the Fundaci Joan Mir. Glasgow-born Gordon u...
Berlin What's on
2-5 June 2006. Berlins mega street festival and carnival parade is celebrating its tenth edition this year. Held in the German capitals Kreuzberg district, the Karneval der Kulturen aims to promote th...
Amsterdam What's on
18 May-6 June 2006. The Amsterdam Filmmuseum hosts a tribute to French filmmaker Louis Malle (1932-1995), opening with his 1960s comedy Zazie dans le Mtro. A satire on French bourgeois society, the fi...
