Tours for 2025/26

With Stiffelio, Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, Apprentice Artists Concert and the sarasota Orchestra.
With a lunch cruise, superb tours/cuisine/wine, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg. Art Ovation Hotel.

** 2nd TOUR ADDED**

Der Ring des Nibelungen (Philippe Jordan) at the Vienna State Opera, plus The Queen of Spades (Netrebko), Sonya Yoncheva and Beethoven 8 & 9 at the Konzerthaus, Staatskapelle Berlin at the Musikverein. Sacher Hotel.

With Nabucco and Aida in Verona, Zelmira, L’Italiana in Algeri and La cambiale di matrimonio at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, and Turandot & Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. Day trips to Lake Garda, Urbino, Bologna, Pisa, Cinque Terre.
5-star hotels throughout.

With the Royal Ballet & Opera, Royal Albert Hall, National Theatre, Evensong at Westminster Abbey and Seasonal Concerts in London. Churchill War Rooms, Tower of London, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; In Paris: Opera Garnier, Philharmonie, Louvre, Saint-Chapelle, Notre-Dame, Seine Dinner Cruise, Jules Verne atop the Eiffel Tower.

With all 10 Mahler Symphonies performed by the greatest orchestras, conductors and singers in the world.

5-Star Hotel De L'Europe, the greatest art touring possible, full breakfast daily plus 10 additional meals, top category seats for all performances.

With Der Ring des Nibelungen, plus Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in The House That Wagner Built, featuring the finest Wagnerian conductors and singers on earth.
Day trips to Bamberg and Nürnberg (WWII art bunker, Dürer Museum). H4 Hotel Residenzschloss Bayreuth.

BOLOGNA, FLORENCE, MILAN
and the VERDI FESTIVAL in PARMA
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.

With Parsifal, Il barbiere di Siviglia & Saul at Glyndebourne; Faust and Onegin (ballet) at Covent Garden; The Elixir of Love and The Queen of Spades at Garsington; Grand Hotel Brighton; Firmdale Covent Garden Hotel London; Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons (Oxford-Garsington).

New productions of La bohème and Rigoletto, a company premiere of Die Walküre, a revival of The Marriage of Figaro, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, the Apprentice Scenes concert and a concert at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Private lectures, superb meals, Georgia O'Keeffe tours, Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi Hotel.

With The Magic Fountain, Deidamia, Il viaggio a Reims, Le trouvère and a concert at the Wexford Festival;

Abbey Theatre and a concert in Dublin.

Kilkenny, Waterford, Kennedy Homestead. Optional West Country.

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.