Gabriele D'Annunzio

The Greek National Opera presents the Greek premiere of Nadia Boulanger's opera "La Ville Morte" (The Dead City), being staged for only the third time in over a century. French-born Boulanger was an important conductor, composer and music educator, mentoring some of the greatest figures of the 20th century, among them British composer Lennox Berkeley and American composer Walter Piston.

The Croatian Foreign Ministry on Thursday delivered a protest note to Italy over the erection in Trieste of a monument to Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Italian poet widely perceived as a forerunner of Italian Fascism.