Dresden Festspiele
- Five concerts and recitals in four historic buildings including the Semperoper.
- Accompanied by an art historian who leads walks to see the architecture and art collections.
- Rebuilding, restoration and refurbishment has wrought wonders in this once shattered city.
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22–27 May 2009
6 days • £1,890
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Edinburgh Opera
- A new production of Massenet's Manon, a Scottish Opera première, and McVicar’s Così fan tutte.
- A selective programme of walks and visits, and talks by a musicologist.
- Stay at the 5-star Balmoral on Princes Street.
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23–26 June 2009
4 days • £990
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Handel in Halle
- Five concerts, including two works for the stage (plus a musical church service).
- Operas: Ariodante, Serse.
- Visits to some places of outstanding interest in the vicinity including Bach’s city of Leipzig and Naumburg with its astounding 13th-century sculpture.
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4–10 June 2009
7 days • £2,040
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Haydn in Eisenstadt
- International festival in the small country town where Haydn was based for most of his career.
- Orchestra in residence: the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra under Adam Fischer.
- Other artists include Ton Koopman and the Freiburger Barockorchester.
- Visits to other places associated with Haydn including the great summer palace in Hungary.
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13–19 September 2009
7 days • £1,950
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Mozart in Salzburg I
- Vienna Philharmonic with Seiji Ozawa, Mitsuko Uchida, Rainer Honeck, Tamas Varga, Harald Hörth, Michael Werba.
- Artemis Quartet; András Schiff; Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra with Ivor Bolton.
- Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with René Jacobs; Hagen Quartet; Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble with Marc Minkowski.
- Vienna Philharmonic with Nikolas Harnoncourt, Annette Dasch, Bernarda Fink, Werner Gűra.
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23–29 January 2009
7 days • £2,470
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Mozart in Salzburg II
- Austrian orchestras: the Vienna Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kozena, and Camerata Salzburg.
- Early Music ensembles: Les Musiciens du Louvre with Mark Minkowski, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with René Jacobs.
- Chamber groups include András Schiff and friends, Mitsuko Uchida, on her own and with the Hagen Quartet.
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25 January–1 February 2009
8 days • £2,730
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Opera in Cardiff
- Led by the dramaturg for Welsh National Opera.
- Excursions, talks and walks.
- 5-star hotel in the Cardiff Bay development.
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26 February–1 March 2009
4 days • £1,090
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Opera in Cardiff
- The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) and La Bohème (Puccini).
- Excursions, talks and walks.
- 5-star hotel in the Cardiff Bay development.
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3–6 June 2009
4 days • £990
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Opera in Paris & Lyon
- Plácido Domingo as Cyrano de Bergerac.
- Britten's final opera Death in Venice performed in English (Aldeburgh Festival co-production).
- Puccini's Tosca and Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
- First-class rail travel on Eurostar and TGV.
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19–25 May 2009
7 days • £2,580
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Savonlinna Opera
- Flights from Manchester or London to Helsinki and continue to Savonlinna by train the following day.
- Productions at Savonlinna are musically and dramatically first-rate, in the incomparable setting of a mediaeval castle on an island.
- A pleasant, small town amidst the unassertive beauty of the lakeland in design-conscious Finland.
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12–17 July 2009
6 days • £2,240
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