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Music in Berlin at Christmas

Visits to Potsdam & Sanssouci

  • Numerous excellent collections of fine & decorative arts and first-rate architecture.
  • A day excursion to Potsdam to see Frederick the Great’s Sanssouci.
  • Includes tickets to The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro and the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel with Elina Garanča, and an optional ballet performance.
Music in Berlin at Christmas
Berlin possesses some of the finest art galleries and museums in the world and offers the highest standards of music and opera performance. It is endowed with a range of historic architecture and is the site of Europe’s greatest concentration of first-rate contemporary architecture. Once again a national capital, it is also one of the most exciting cities on the Continent, recent and rapid changes pushing through a transformation without peacetime parallel.

One of the grandest capitals in Europe for the first forty years of the last century, it then suffered appallingly from aerial bombardment and Russian artillery. For the next forty years it was cruelly divided into two parts and became the focus of Cold War antagonism, a bizarre confrontation between an enclave of western libertarianism and hard-line Communism.

Since the Wall was breached in 1989 the city has been transformed beyond recognition. From being a largely charmless urban expanse still bearing the scars of war, it has become a vibrant, liveable city, the very model of a modern major metropolis. The two halves have been knitted together and cleaning and repair have revealed the patrimony of historic architecture to be among the finest in Central Europe.

The art collections, formerly split, dispersed and often housed in temporary premises, are now coming together in magnificently restored or newly-built galleries. Berlin possesses international art and antiquities of the highest importance, as well as incomparable collections of German art. The number and variety of museums and the quality of their holdings make Berlin among the world’s most desired destinations for art lovers.

With three major opera houses and several orchestras – one of which has claims to be the best in the world – Berlin is a city where truly outstanding performances can be virtually guaranteed.

Read the itinerary

23–30 December 2010
(MX 777)
8 days •  £2,850

Lecturer:
Tom Abbott

Comments from participants in 2009:



This was my first MRT trip and I found the whole thing totally enjoyable.’ J.M., East Sussex



The evening at the Philharmonic was heaven on earth. Just for this the trip would have been worthwhile.’ S.P., Ontario



We know Berlin reasonably well, so much of the trip was a repeat. However the experience was significantly enhanced by our lecturer’s insights and erudition.’ M.F., Co Tipperary

Our lecturer was excellent; enthusiastic, knowledgeable and nothing was ever a bother.’ J.W., Surrey



This was my first Martin Randall trip. I very much enjoyed it and shall not hesitate to recommend MRT to others.’ R.M., Cambridgeshire

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