2 Dec. Rome's Vitala Festival inaugurates the festive season with a concert described as a "journey on a musical sleigh”, with well-known and beloved holiday classics, at Teatro S. Genesio on 2 December.

The evening will comprise a medley of traditional and popular festive songs and carols, from Walking in a Winter Wonderland and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, to carols such as Good King Wenceslas and God rest ye merry gentlemen.

The concert will also feature the Pogues' famous "anti-Christmas" ballad as well as more mainstream pop hits, by Wham and Mariah Carey, topped off with traditional festive classics from Germany and Italy.

The event takes place at 21.00 on Monday 2 December, with an optional buffet from 20.00. For more details, email wonderwallenter@gmail.com, tel. 3478248661 or see Facebook page.