Elisabeth

Italian melodrama's official recognition as a global cultural treasure was celebrated on Dec. 7 with La Scala's season premiere of Verdi's "Don Carlo," an opera that hits hot-button topics of power and oppression.

The Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) will delight film lovers for the 33rd time between 9 and 20 November, this time with 90 feature-length and some 30 short films.

Musician Dan Andrei Aldea has died, the songwriter and folk singer Nicu Alifantis wrote Sunday on his Facebook page. "Great musician Dan Andrei Aldea has left us! Have a smooth way to the stars, Good Man (Om Bun)!" Nicu Alifantis said. Born on 9 March 1950, in Bucharest, Dan Andrei Aldea used to be a soloist, composer and multi-instrumentalist.

The estate that so enchanted Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-98) when she first visited the verdant Ionian island of Corfu is one of the subjects of an exhibition that was recently inaugurated at its Museum of Asian Art.

Queen Elisabeth, Queen Maria, WWI hero Ecaterina Teodoroiu and feminist pioneer Alexandrina Cantacuzino were commemorated Wednesday evening, on the eve of March 8, the International Women's Day, at the Cotroceni National Museum in Bucharest, as part of a "Conversations at the Museum" programme.

Best known for her heartfelt portrayal of the titled character in the Austrian "Sissi" trilogy about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, German actress Romy Schneider is being honored by the Goethe Institute on Monday, March 5, with a screening of her last film before her untimely death from a heart attack in 1982 at the age of 43. The free screening starts at 8.30 p.m.

BELGRADE - One of the best contemporary violinists Vadim Repin will appear on stage in the Ilija Kolarac Endowment and deliver a concert with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time on Friday, February 6.

One of the world's most historic sailing cruisers, the Sea Cloud is set to enter the port of Thessaloniki on Monday morning, the northern city's port authority said on Friday.