Tours for 2023 / 2024

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.

With Luisa Miller, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, and the first U.S. staging of Haydn's Deceit Outwitted in over 50 years. Sarasota Orchestra concert, Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, superb tours/cuisine/wine. Art Ovation Hotel.

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.

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.

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.

With La forza del destino (Davidsen, Semenchuk), Madama Butterfly (Buratto, Polenzani), Roméo et Juliette (Sierra), Turandot (Pankratova, Kurzak), Laffont Competition Grand Finals, Jan Lisiecki piano recital at Carnegie Hall. Whitby Hotel.

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).

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.

Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden under the baton of Philippe Jordan. Plus The Magic Flute and The Queen of Spades with Sondra Radvanovsky at the Deutsche Oper. Superb guided art & history tours. 5-Star Hotel Regent.

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).