Nixon in China (Dudamel; Fleming, Zhang, Hampson, Kim) Hamlet, La fille du régiment, Mozart's Jupiter Symphony & Mass in C, plus three concerts at the Philharmonie (Strauss/Saint-Saëns/Haydn, Messiaen). Private tours of the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, Palais Garnier, the Rodin Museum and Versailles. Dinner cruise on the Seine and lunch atop the Eiffel Tower at the Michelin-starred Jules Verne. Hotel d’Aubusson.

Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Plus Arabella, La forza del destino, Missa Solemnis, Andrs Schiff. Hotel Regent.

10 Mahler Symphonies plus Le nozze di Figaro in Dresden. 12 nights in Deluxe Rooms at the Steigenberger Grand Hotel Handelshof. Guided tours, day trips to Dresden and Halle.

With Don Giovanni, Dialogues des Carmélites and L’elisir d’amore at the Glyndebourne Festival, Il trovatore and ballet at Covent Garden, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Garsington Festival. Tours of the Churchill War Rooms, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, The British Museum, Westminster Abbey, Oxford and more. Grand Hotel Brighton; Firmdale Covent Garden Hotel London; Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons (Garsington).

Hamlet (Clayton, Gilfry), Salome (Siegel, Meier, Nylund), Semele (Rae, Sly), Lohengrin (Vogt, Petersen, Kampe), Così fan tutte, recitals by Anja Harteros and Igor Levit. Tours of the Residenz Glyptothek, , day trip
to Regensburg. 5-star Bayerischer Hof Hotel.

With Der Ring des Nibelungen, plus Tannhäuser, Parsifal,
Der fliegende Holländer and Tristan und Isolde. Lectures and special events. Day trips to
Bamberg and Nürnberg (WWII art bunker, Dürer Museum). Hotel Arvena Kongress.

With Der Ring des Nibelungen, plus Tannhäuser, Parsifal,
Der fliegende Holländer and Tristan und Isolde. Lectures and special events. Day trips to
Bamberg and Nürnberg (WWII art bunker, Dürer Museum). Hotel Arvena Kongress.

With Rusalka, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Flying Dutchman, Orfeo and Tosca, plus Apprentice Scenes, three concerts at the Chamber Music Festival. Private lectures, superb meals, art & history tours, day trip to San Ildefonso pueblo. Deluxe rooms at the Inn of the Anasazi.

With Fidelio (Värelä, Hilley, Ivashchenko, Lovell, Kränzle) and La bohème (Kiria, Hopkins, Ballerini) at the Canadian Opera Company. Plus Blithe Spirit, The Amen Corner, The Shadow of a Doubt, The Apple Cart and Gypsy at the Shaw Festival; King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Les Belles-sœurs, RENT and Frankenstein Revived at Stratford. Three outstanding hotels: Queen's Landing (Niagara), The Bruce (Stratford) and the Royal York (Toronto).

With opera in Florence and Turin and at the Verdi Festival in Parma. Superb art (Uffizi) and cuisine.

With at least two operas in Prague, opera, Beethoven 9 and the New Year's Day concert dress rehearsal in Vienna.