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Chief Outdoor Summer: And outdoor rooms aren't just for dining and entertaining anymore. This summer, the focus is on relaxing in sumptuous comfort. Still, it's not all about indulgence. There's also an emphasis on sturdier, and more eco-friendly, materials.
And worshipping the sun? That's so George Hamilton. Instead, be on the lookout for innovative awnings and umbrellas that stylishly block out the glare.
Orange (end of July). The well-preserved Roman Theater is a setting chiefly for dramatic events and ballet.
Marseille was proud to inaugurate France's First International Ballet Festival in the summer of 1954 (late June to mid-July).
Menton (early August). This far corner of France offers glamorous outdoor musical events in the square in front of the Church of St-Michel.
Besanfon (early September). Music and drama, in this seldom visited Jura city, is a sort of curtain-down to France's summer festival season.
1, Music and Drama Festivals Rome's chief outdoor summer events will have special mention later, in the "evening prelude" of the nightlife section, for they are so easy to find and enjoy that they have universal, rather than specialized appeal.
Florence has developed its Musical May (Maggio Musicale Fioren-tino), a May usually running into June, to such levels that it is now one of Europe's major events of its kind. In the Communal Theater, the Pergola Theater, the Boboli Gardens Amphitheater, the White Hall of the Pitti Palace and, for church music, the Church of Santa Croce, it presents a wellrrounded program of opera, light opera, ballet and symphonic, sacred and chamber music, the whole program being spiced by the participation of world celebrities from many other lands. |
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