Tours for 2025

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.

With The Queen of Spades (Yoncheva, Urmana, Jagde), Antony & Cleopatra (Bullock, DeShong), Salome (DeYoung, Mattei), La bohème (Frizza) & Il barbiere di Siviglia (Akhmetshina, Swanson). Plus Evgeny Kissin & Gidon Kremer at Carnegie Hall. Lincoln Center tour, Met Museum, Morgan Library. Firmdale Whitby Hotel.

With La Fille du regiment (Graham, Brownlee), Le nozze di Figaro (Luciano, Bengtsson, Röschmann), Don Giovanni (Krimmel, Fischesser, Boecker), Così fan tutte (Kulchynska, Kränzle), Kát’a Kabanová (Siljanov, Urmana, Wilson) and Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci (Semenchuk, Grigolo/Kaufmann, Pérez)

With Nabucco and Aida in Verona, at least 2 of Zelmira, L’Italiana in Algeri, Il Turco in Italia and Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, and 3 operas at the Puccini festival in Torre del Lago.

Parsifal (Garanča, Pape), Tosca (Lungu, Korchak) and The Pearl Fishers at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and The Flying Dutchman at the Deutsche Oper; Manon Lescaut in Prague.
5-Star Hotels (Regent Berlin, Aria Prague).

With Parsifal, Il barbiere di Siviglia & Saul at the Glyndebourne Festival; 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).

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.

4 nights in Copenhagen, 3 in Oslo,
4 in Stockholm, with at least 6 performances. Optional Helsinki with 3 nights and overnight cruise from Stockholm. 5-star hotels.

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.

** 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.

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.

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.