Tours for 2025/26

PARMA, FLORENCE, MILAN
with the VERDI FESTIVAL and Bologna
3 operas in Parma, Macbeth in Florence, Rigoletto (Grigolo), La Fille du regiment (Flórez), Elīna Garanča with Riccardi Chailly and Asmik Grigorian in recital at La Scala. Verdi tours, Uffizi, The Last Supper, Ricordi Collection. 5-star hotels.

Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the incomparable Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Additional performances, Verdi tours. The Last Supper, Ricordi Museum, superb cuisine.

5-star Grand Hotel et de Milan.

Salzburg: Das Rheingold (Gerhaher, Melrose, Morison) & 5 concerts featuring works by Mahler, Dvořak, Mozart, Bruch, Berlioz & Haydn. Munich: Parsifal (Mattei, Szabó, Fischesser, Stemme), Tosca (Pérez) & Macbeth (Enkhbat, Tagliavini, Hernández). Hotel Bristol Salzburg, Rosewood Munich (both 5-star).

With Tosca, Il turco in Italia & L'Orfeo at Glyndebourne; Le nozze di Figaro & Anna Netrebko in recital at Covent Garden; La traviata and Der Rosenkavalier at Garsington.

Grand Hotel Brighton; Firmdale Covent Garden Hotel London; Danesfield House (Oxford-Garsington).

Royal Ballet & Opera, Royal Albert Hall, National Theatre, Evensong at Westminster Abbey, more. Churchill War Rooms, Tower, Globe Theatre; In Paris: Opera Garnier, Philharmonie, Louvre, Saint-Chapelle, Notre-Dame, Seine Dinner Cruise, Jules Verne atop the Eiffel Tower.

Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the incomparable Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

The Last Supper, Ricordi Museum, superb cuisine.

5-star Grand Hotel et de Milan.

Le nozze di Figaro, ballet and a Bernstein concert in Oslo, Lise Davidsen (Macbeth), ballet and Idomeneo in Copenhagen, Turandot and Madama Butterfly in Stockholm. Optional post-tour Helsinki with 3 nights and overnight cruise from Stockholm.
Glorious 5-star hotels.

The 150th Anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival, with a new Der Ring des Nibelungen under the baton of Christian Thielemann, plus Der fliegende Holländer, Rienzi and Parsifal. Day trips to Bamberg and Nürnberg (WWII art bunker, Dürer Museum).
H4 Hotel Residenzschloss Bayreuth.

With I Puritani (Oropesa, Brownlee), Porgy & Bess (Renee, Graves, Speedo Green), Carmen (Brugger, Fabiano), Madama Butterfly (Pérez, Kim, Baek), plus Isabel Leonard in recital at Carnegie Hall. Superb tours and cuisine.

Firmdale Whitby Hotel.

With Il trovatore, La bohème, The Merry Widow and Susannah. Apprentice Concerts and the Sarasota Orchestra. Dinner cruise, superb tours/ cuisine/ wine.

The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg.

Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Der Ring des Nibelungen (Pablo Heras-Casado conducts a Sven-Eric Bechtolf production) at the Vienna State Opera, plus Così fan tutte, Kate Lindsey at the Konzerthaus, Sheku Kanneh-Mason at the Musikverein.

Budapest day trip. Lipizzaner Horses. Sacher Hotel.

With revivals of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Mozart’s The Magic Flute, a new production and company premiere of Handel’s Rodelinda, and the American Premiere of Tobias Picker's Lili Elbe. Plus the Apprentice Scenes concert and a concert at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Private lectures, superb meals, Inn of the Anasazi.