Arabella, Elektra, Salome
- Three Richard Strauss operas in one of the world’s finest houses: Arabella, Elektra, and Salome.
- Walks and drives to see art and architecture.
- Plenty of free time.
Three Strauss operas on successive evenings is an opportunity not to be passed up, especially when the location is the composer’s natal city and the principal venue one of the most illustrious and dependable opera houses in Europe.
The tradition of a summer opera festival in Munich goes back 1875, and thus the Münchner Opern-festspiele is one of the world’s oldest opera festivals. Many of the productions are reprises of productions mounted during the previous season.
The attractiveness of the cityscape, the abundance of cultural activity, the relatively relaxed lifestyle and generally amenable ambience make it the most sought-after place in which to live and work in Germany. The seat of the Wittelsbachs, who ruled Bavaria from 1255 until 1918 as Counts, then Dukes, as Electors from 1620 and finally in the nineteenth century as Kings, Munich became one of the best-endowed places in Europe artistically and architecturally. On four occasions there is a walk or a coach tour to see a selection of Munich’s art and architecture, accompanied by a city guide. The afternoons are left free for individual exploration or rest or preparation of the evening performance.