• Artists include the French National Orchestra, Andreás Schiff, the Capella Andrea Barca and Kurt Masur.

• Includes some of the many museums of this former capital city and a day in Cologne.

• First-class rail from London to Cologne.

• Good 4-star hotel overlooking the Rhine in Bonn.

• Numerous excellent collections of fine and decorative arts and first-rate architecture.
  
• A day excursion to Potsdam to see Frederick the Great’s Sanssouci.
  
• Includes 3 operas and 1 concert (tickets remain subject to confirmation).

•    Dido and Aeneas: an English opera, by an English composer, performed by an English cast in an English opera house.

•    Handel's Samson and chamber operas by Holst and Vaughan Williams in the glorious Frank Matcham Opera House.

•    Private talk by Andrew Greenwood, artistic director of Buxton Festival.

•    Excursions to two great and contrasting houses, Chatsworth and Haddon.

• A new festival in rural Picardy.

• Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Imogen Cooper, Julius Drake, Paul Lewis, Cedric Tiberghien, Christian Poltéra and the Belcea Quartet are among the artists.

• Schubert and Britten are the principal composers.

• The ‘Mozartwoche’, an annual winter festival in the composer’s birthplace.
• Vienna Philharmonic with Seiji Ozawa, Mitsuko Uchida, Rainer Honeck, Tamas Varga, Harald Hörth, Michael Werba.
• Artemis Quartet; Andras Schiff; Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra with Ivor Bolton.
• Vienna Philharmonic with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Annette Dasch, Bernarda Fink, Werner Gźra, Florian Boesch.

• Vienna Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kozena.
  
• Andras Schiff; Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble with Mark Minkowski; Camerata Salzburg.
  
• Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with René Jacobs; Hagen Quartet; Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble with Marc Minkowski.
  
• Giugliano Carmignola and Robert Levin; Hagen Quartet with Mitsuko Uchida.

• Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) and an orchestral concert at the Semperoper in Dresden.
  
• In Prague: Rusalka (Dvorák) at the State Opera House and La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart) at the Estates Theatre.
  
• Talks by a musicologist.
  
• Programme of walks and visits with German and Czech guides.
  
• Two historic 5-star hotels in both Old Towns.

• Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic, Ton Koopman, Andreas Scholl, Jörg Dürmüller.
• At the Met: The Magic Flute with Nicole Cabell (Cardiff Singer of the World 2005), La Bohème with Ramón Vargas and Thaïs with Renée Fleming, Michael Schade and Thomas Hampson.
• The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with conductor Jaime Laredo.
• Talks on the music by Daniel Snowman and a programme of walks and excursions, some led by local experts.

• UK debut of renowned director Paul Curran.

• Excursions, talks and walks.

• 5-star hotel in the Cardiff Bay development.

• Led by the dramaturg for Welsh National Opera.
  
• Excursions, talks and walks.
  
• 5-star hotel in the Cardiff Bay development.