Tours for 2023 / 2024
All tour prices are in USD
PARMA, MILAN, NAPLES
Il trovatore, Nabucco, Falstaff and I Lombardi at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Le nozze di Figaro at La Scala; Anna Netrebko in recital and an evening of Beethoven, Prokofiev and Gershwin at Teatro di San Carlo. VIP Verdi tours (Sant’Agata, Busseto), The Last Supper, Pompeii and Ercolano.
Price
$16,995
Dates
October 3-16, 2023
SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL
With La Gioconda (Kaufmann, Netrebko), Verdi’s Requiem (Kaufmann, Yoncheva, Pertusi, Kutasi), Lise Davidsen Freddie & De Tommaso recital, Pinchas Zukerman, Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra di Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. An extraordinary meeting of the finest singers on the planet in picturesque Salzburg, with 7 nights at the 5-Star Hotel Bristol. Superb tours, 2 meals daily, top category seats for all performances.
Price
$11,495
Dates
March 24 - April 1, 2024
MUNICH
With Tosca (Harteros & Kaufmann), Pelléas and Mélisande (Selig, Koch, Bliss, Gerhaer), Parsifal (Finley, Stemme), La fanciulla del West (Bystrom, Volle, Lee), Tannhäuser (Anger, Vogt, Snell, Petersen), plus a Samuel Coleridge-Taylor concert.
Superb meals and guided tours; Day trip to Regensburg.
5-star Bayerischer Hof Hotel.
Price
$14,295
Dates
July 20-29, 2024
THE BEST OF CHICAGO
With Daughter of the Regiment (Oropesa, Brownlee), Jenůfa (Lise Davidsen, Nina Stemme), plus three performances at Symphony Hall (Rachmaninov/Sibelius, Maxim Vengerov/Polina Osetinskaya, András Schiff). Art & Architecture tours. Peninsula Hotel.
Price
$11,995
Dates
November 9-16, 2023
PARIS
Salomé (Davidsen, Gubanova, Breslik), Don Quichotte, Christian Thielemann and the Statskapelle Dresden (Weber, Wagner, Strauss), Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony and Symphony No. 2 under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Arcadi Volodos piano recital (Brahms, Schubert).
Private tours of the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Palais Garnier, Rodin Museum, Versailles. Dinner cruise on the Seine and lunch at Jules Verne atop the Eiffel Tower. Hotel d’Aubusson (Left Bank).
Price
$15,995
Dates
May 20- 30, 2024
FESTIVE PRAGUE & VIENNA
With The Magic Flute, The Elixir of Love and a Festive Concert in Prague; Hansel und Gretel, Die Fledermaus, Beethoven 9 and the New Year's Day concert dress rehearsal in Vienna. Special lunch in Brno. Superb art/history/music tours. Hotel Aria Prague; Sacher Hotel Vienna.
Price
$15,995
Dates
December 22, 2023 - January 2, 2024
UK FESTIVALS
With Die Zauberflöte, The Merry Widow and Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne; Le nozze di Figaro, Un giorno di regno and A Midusmmer Night's Dream at Garsington; Tosca and Così fan tutte at Covent Garden plus one play (TBA). Tours of the Churchill War Rooms, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, The British Museum, Westminster Abbey, Oxford. Grand Hotel Brighton; Firmdale Covent Garden Hotel London; Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons (Oxford).
Price
$18,995
Dates
June 25 - July 7, 2024