Tours for 2025/26

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.

The 150th Anniversary Festival, with a new Ring 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.

Optima Category seats for Wagner’s Ring at the Opéra Bastille. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts; cast includes Iain Paterson, Elza van den Heever, Günther Groissböck, Kwangchul Youn, Tamara Wilson, Brian Mulligan.

5-star Hôtel d'Aubusson (Left Bank).

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.

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.

Eugene Onegin, Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Handel’s Rodelinda, and the American Premiere of Tobias Picker's Lili Elbe. Plus the Apprentice Scenes concert and 2 concerts at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Private lectures, superb meals, Inn of the Anasazi.

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.

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).

With Falstaff (Salsa, Agresta, Petean, Urmana), Petite Messe Solennelle (Mariotti; Torosyan,Vistoli, Korchak, Pertusi), Il trovatore (Enkhbat, Monastyrska, Beltrami, Sartori), Rigoletto (Carletti, Tézier, Demuro). Private after hours Sistine Chapel tour, superb meals and expert-led touring. 5-star hotels: Relais & Chǎteaux Palazzo Ripetta Rome, Masseria Torre Maizza in Puglia, Grand Hotel et des Palmes Palermo.