London What's on
6 April-5 Aug 2006. Dame Judi Dench stars in the Theatre Royal Haymarkets revival of Noel Cowards comedy of social embarrassments, Hay Fever. The seven-time Laurence Olivier Award winner plays a self-...
Copenhagen What's on
21 May 2006. The Copenhagen marathon takes over the streets of the capital for the fifth consecutive year, passing through the city centre and all the major sights. The race starts and finishes near t...
Madrid What's on
8-23 May 2006. The Teatro Real hosts Mozarts comic opera The Abduction from the Seraglio Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail set in the opulent palace of a Turkish Pasha. First produced in 1782, the opera i...
Madrid What's on
24 May 2006. Unconventional English classical violinist Nigel Kennedy is performing with the Polish Chamber Orchestra in a one-off concert at the Auditorio Nacional de Msica. The programme includes Ba...
Copenhagen What's on
25-28 May 2006. This is the tenth edition of the annual Home & Lifestyle Summer Exhibition in the palace and grounds of the historic Ledreborg estate 44 km west of Copenhagen. The show includes everyt...
Oxford What's on
International Festival of Films.
2-12 May 2006. Around 40 films, many of which are European or world premieres, are to be screened at the Phoenix cinema for the Oxford International Festival of Films (OIFF). The programme includes a...
Dublin What's on
International Piano Competition.
13-19 May 2006. The preliminary rounds of the AXA International Piano competition take place at the Royal Dublin Society 5-11 May. Twelve successful competitors then go through to the semi-finals at t...
Paris What's on
18-21 May 2006. This is the 29th edition of the annual springtime exhibition of Pariss antiquarians and art gallery owners, when members of the Carr Rive Gauche association put their most important di...
Oxford What's on
23-27 May 2006. The Watermill theatre company performs Ranjit Bolts acclaimed translation of Molires classic comedy at the Oxford Playhouse. Written in 1664, Tartuffe tells the story of a religious hy...
Paris What's on
French Open Tennis Championship.
28 May-11 June 2006. Hosted by the Roland-Garros stadium, the French Open is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, attracting around 500 top international players annually. Star players inclu...
Vienna What's on
15 May-29 June 2006. One of Hungarian composer Emmerich Klmns most successful operettas, The Csardas Princess Die Csrdsfrstin is set in Budapest and Vienna in 1914, just before the outbreak of the fi...
Dublin What's on
20 May-1 July 2006. The Abbey Theatre presents Brian Friels adaptation of Ivan Turgenevs dramatic comedy A Month in the Country, directed by Jason Byrne. Set in 19th-century rural Russia, the story re...
Vienna What's on
9 May-1 Jul 2006. Woody Allens romantic comedy Play It Again Sam is brought to the stage by Viennas American-owned and run International Theatre. The play revolves around the problematic love-life of...
Dublin What's on
1 April-26 Nov 2006. Two talented actors bring James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Oscar Wilde and other Irish literary greats to life in the convivial atmosphere of some of Dublins famed lite...
Berlin What's on
20-26 April 2006. Sponsored by the British Council, the British and Irish film festival Britspotting is now in its seventh year. The programme includes full-length features, short films and documentar...
Amsterdam What's on
27-28 April 2006. The Stadsschouwburg Theatre hosts Rotterdams Scapino Ballet Company with its latest work in which four choreographers each present a 20-minute performance. Amanda Millers work entitl...
Oxford What's on
Blenheim Palace Jousting Tournament.
29 April-1 May 2006. The Knights of Royal England and their steeds are to meet at Blenheim Palace over the May Bank Holiday weekend for a three-day jousting tournament recreating the great contest tha...
London What's on
17 April-6 May 2006. Keith Warners new production of the fourth and final part of Wagners epic Ring cycle is presented by the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. In Gtterdmmerung the world is cleansed of th...
Barcelona What's on
28 April-7 May 2006. India is this years guest country in the eighth edition of the Barcelona Asian Film Festival (BAFF), held at the Aribau Club Cinemas, Casa Asia and the CCCB (Centre of Contemporar...
Paris What's on
28 April-8 May 2006. Divided into Leisure, Home and Garden, and Life Abroad, the annual Foire de Paris at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles covers 220,000 sqm of exhibition space with around 3,000 ex...
