La Principessa della Czardas at the Theatre

LA PRINCIPESSA DELLA CZARDAS

Operetta in tre atti di Leo Stein e Béla Jenbach
regia di Antonello Gotta
musiche di Emmerich Kàlmàn
coreografie di Loredana Furno
direttore Paolo Massimini
con Alessandra Cecchetti, Vincenzo Santagata - More images here

NUOVA COMPAGNIA DI OPERETTA MASSIMINI

Free internet telephone software

It is not often that we recommend a software but this one just has to be downloaded and used... it's a free Internet telephony software that actually works. Download the smallish file (5 mega) and in seconds you can speak to your friends on their computers anywhere in the world and in real time, no time lags or broken voices.

How about a conference call with up to 4 people speaking at the same time? We tried it this evening using this software and the computer microphone and speakers... friends in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Britain all able to talk with each other with crystal clear reception and all for free !

But there is more, you can also come off the net and onto the telephone service and dial landlines and cell phones using this software. This part of the Skype system is a pay service but the price for dialing most landlines in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia is an astonishing 1.7 Eurocent a minute (1.7 Euro Cent is approximately the same as 2 US cents or 1,1 pence.)

Download the software here

The offices at barganews are now connected to the Skype network - Skype Username: barganews

That was the week that was - NO SMOKING

10th January 2005
This morning the face of Italy has been changed for ever. From midnight last night smoking has been banned from all bars and restaurants in Italy. Smokers will have to go in an closed room set aside just for smokers if there is one provided or smoke outside. full article here



11th January 2005
To celebrate this brave move which once again puts Italy back on course to taking its rightful place as the country of culture inside Europe, a local artist put up an installation of his work about smoking inside Aristodemo's bar in Barga Vechhia.

Ten year ago he spent months cutting out images from Panorama of people smoking. He assembled a collage of these images and constructed a curtain which was originally designed to hang in a school in the area. It is interesting to note that most adults fail to notice that in all the images there is a cigarette. ... an almost all children note this detail first. full article here



12th January 2005
A far darker note was struck in Barga this week when Barga Vecchia was filled with smoke from a house fire that tragically caused the death of an elderly woman trapped in the flames and smoke. full article here



14th January 2005
To end the week with a small amount of humour: the only place left in Barga where it is possible for smokers to congregate and socialise inside away from the colder winter air, is the Barga Jazz Club. As it is a private club it is still possible to smoke inside. Members where talking about voluntarily dividing the place into a smokers part and a non smokers part but on friday the smokers were to be found in both halves and so a spoof non smokers website was set up, much to the chagrin of many of the (smoking) members. full article here