Golden Globe

King Lear

You’ll need to book this one in advance, but we love the Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank so much we had to give you plenty of notice. The 2008 season starts with the open-air theatre’s artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, directing William Shakespeare’s profound tragedy, King Lear. TV and stage actor and member of the Royal Shakespeare Company David Calder takes the title role, and the play is performed as it would have been in the 16th century with Renaissance staging and costume. Book now.

Dream on:

Surreal Things

For an art exhibition that’s weighty, yet fun and easy to understand, Surreal Things, at Bilbao’s Guggenheim from the beginning of March until September, is hard to beat. The exhibits, first shown at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum last year, cover almost every aspect of the 20thcentury Surrealist movement, including mindbending examples of fashion, film, architecture, painting and sculpture. Look out for everything from famous Salvador Dalí works, like the 1938 Mae West Lips Sofa (pictured) through to lesser-known surreal pieces, such as fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s dramatic Tear and Skeleton evening dresses (both 1938), to Meret Oppenheim’s 1939 Table with Bird’s Legs

Putt luck:

Hotel Guadalmina

Getting your handicap down in time for the golf season is as effortless as going on holiday. A stay at Hotel Guadalmina in Marbella will do the trick – you don’t even have to leave your hotel. Not only do they have one nine-hole and two full-sized golf courses, they’ve also installed a putting green just outside the rooms. Staff assure us that they’ve moved the beach loungers since this photo was taken, having realised that a golfer’s paradise might prove a little less than heavenly for avid sunbathers.

Going for a song:

Don Giovanni

For a night of high culture with a smattering of showbiz, take in the Opéra National de Montpellier’s new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (30 March–6 April). While the orchestra is led by the steady hand of conductor Hervé Niquet, the lead role is taken by American baritone Franco Pomponi (pictured), who also starred in Baz Luhrmann’s Broadway production of La Bohème, and is renowned for his strong voice and dark good looks. Who says classical music can’t be sexy?

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