Tours for 2025/26

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.

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. Additional performances, Verdi tours. The Last Supper, Ricordi Museum, superb cuisine.
5-star Grand Hotel et de Milan.

The Stefan Herheim production of The Ring conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. Ya-Chung Huang, Iain Paterson /Thomas J. Mayer, Annika Schlicht, Michael Sumuel, Matthew Newlin, Elisabeth Teige, Clay Hilley, Trine Møller/Catherine Foster, Albert Pesendorfer. 5-Star Hotel de Rome.

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.

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.

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

With Il trovatore, La bohème, The Merry Widow and Susannah. Apprentice Artists Concerts and the Sarasota Orchestra.
Dinner cruise, superb tours/cuisine/wine, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg.
Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

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

With Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci (Russell Thomas, Quinn Kelsey, and Gabriella Reyes) and Carmina Burana at Lyricd Opera of Chicago, plus two performances at Symphony Hall (Chopin, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart). Art & Architecture tours. Superb meals.
Peninsula Hotel.

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.

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.