Tours for 2025/26

With Falstaff, Petite Messe Solennelle, Il trovatore, Rigoletto.

Private Sistine Chapel tour, superb meals & expert-led touring.

Relais & Chǎteaux Palazzo Ripetta Rome, Masseria Torre Maizza in Puglia, Grand Hotel et des Palmes Palermo.

All 9 Beethoven Symphonies plus String Quartets, Piano & Violin Concertos, Piano Sonatas and other major works. Opera in Dresden. Day trips to Weimar and Dresden. Gourmet cuisine & wine.
15 nights in Deluxe Rooms at the Steigenberger GrandHotel Handelshof.

With Der Ring des Nibelungen (Brownlee, Nigl, Anger, Rose, Värelä, Gubanova, Bruns), Rigoletto (Tézier, Feola, Wilson), Death in Venice, plus recitals by Diana Damrau, Lisette Oropesa, Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Netrebko. Day trips to Augsburg and Nymphenburg; Superb meals and guided tours; 5-star Bayerischer Hof Hotel.

Optima seats for Wagner’s Ring at Opéra Bastille. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts; cast includes Iain Paterson, Elza van den Heever, Günther Groissböck, Kwangchul Youn, Tamara Wilson. Seine dinner cruise, Louvre, Rodin Museum, Orangerie, Sainte-Chapelle, Marmottan. 5-star Hôtel d'Aubusson (Left Bank).

With Aida (Armiliato; Hawkins, Baek, Petrova), Parsifal (Nézet-Séguin; Garanča, Beczała, Mattei, Speedo Green) and Tosca (Armiliato; Radvanovsky, Polenzani, Enkhbat, Carfizzi). Plus Carnegie Hall concert (Kissin, Vengerov, Capuçon) and the Lincoln Center Diamond Jubilee Gala. Firmdale Whitby Hotel.

With Der Ring des Nibelungen (Brownlee, Nigl, Anger, Rose, Värelä, Gubanova, Bruns), Rigoletto (Tézier, Feola, Wilson), Death in Venice, plus recitals by Diana Damrau, Lisette Oropesa, Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Netrebko. Day trips to Augsburg and Nymphenburg; Superb meals and guided tours; 5-star Bayerischer Hof Hotel.

With Ariadne auf Naxos, La traviata, Jenûfa and H.M.S. Pinafore.

Apprentice Artists Concerts.

Superb tours/cuisine/wine, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg.

Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

With Idomeneo, Carmen & La Cenerentola at Glyndebourne; early arrival Aida at Covent Garden; Die Walküre at Grange Park; Der fliegende Holländer at Garsington; Grand Hotel Brighton; Firmdale Covent Garden Hotel London; Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire (Garsington). Chartwell, Greenwich, Blenheim Palace, more.

Katya Kabanova, The Barber of Seville, Turandot, Così fan tutte and the American Premiere of Brett Dean's Of One Blood. Plus the Apprentice Scenes concert and 2 concerts at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

Private lectures, superb meals, Inn of the Anasazi.