22 December
Bulgaria Concert Hall
1 Aksakov St
phone: 987 7656

If you only see one concert this month, make it this one. Luciano Di Martino conducts the Classic FM Radio Orchestra in Weber's "Oberon Overture", List's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 and Orchestra Rhapsody No.4. With Georgi Cherkin (piano). Tickets at www.tickets-bg.com

Twelfth Night
7,21,27 December
Nikolay Binev Youth Theatre
8 Knyaz Dondukov Blvd
Sofia
phone: 939 4053

Just as in Elizabethan times, an all-male cast performs the Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identities in this superb adaptation directed by renowned Prof Krikor Azaryan. You know the story: Viola is in love with Orsino, who is in love with Olivia, who is in love with Viola in the male guise of Cesario. This gives you the chance to see some of the theatre's biggest stars without having to worry about understanding the vernacular.

Arabel Karajan and Please Shut Up Band
11 December
Theatre of the Bulgarian Army
98 Rakovski St
phone: 987 2303

The excellent Arabel and her all-Bulgarian band, comprising names that will probably be familiar, present their debut album Kalinachi, a funk-reggae-rock-jazz-folkpop affair.

W.A.Mozart
6 December
Bulgaria Concert Hall, 1 Aksakov St
phone: 987 7656

Celebrate Mozart's 250th anniversary with the big guys: pianist Lyudmil Angelov and violin master Vesko Eschkenazy perform four sonatas for piano and violin. Tickets at www.tickets-bg.com

African Art
5-15 December
National Gallery for Foreign Art
1 Nineteen February St
phone: 980 7262

Unbelievably, the gallery's African art collection has not been displayed before. This exhibition is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Senegalese poet and statesman Leopold Senghor, who is the co-author of the concept of Negritude, the black African experience's artistic expression.