Aix Festival
- One of Europe’s finest summer music festivals
- Combining big names with adventurous programming
- Sir Simon Rattle & the Berlin Philharmonic
- Picasso and Cézanne exhibition at the Musée Granet
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6–10 July 2009
5 days •
£2,260
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Budapest at Christmas
- One concert and one opera in two excellent venues.
- Accompanied by a native art historian with excellent English; walks and visits with a local guide.
- Includes a visit to the Danube bend.
- Opportunity to see two more operas.
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21–27 December 2009
7 days •
£2,030
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Edinburgh Opera & Theatre
- Scottish Opera’s 2010 season offers Puccini’s La Bohème: a modern production, not its usual 19th-century setting, and The Adventures of Mr Brouček, a rarity among Janáček’s operas.
- A new version of Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard, by Scottish playwright John Byrne, at The Royal Lyceum Theatre.
- 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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15–19 April 2010
5 days •
£1,180
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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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In Haydn's Footsteps
This tour is only available to participants of the Haydn in Vienna music festival.
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27–29 August 2009
3 days •
£580
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Mozart in Salzburg
- An annual winter festival, the ‘Mozartwoche’, in the composer’s birthplace.
- An outstanding line-up of orchestras, chamber groups and soloists, with a predominance of music by Mozart.
- Five-star hotel close to the Festspielhaus.
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24–30 January 2010
7 days •
£2,920
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Music in Berlin at Christmas
- 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 La Bohème, Hansel & Gretel, The Magic Flute and the Berlin Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle and Lang Lang.
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23–30 December 2009
8 days •
£2,740
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Music in Prague
- Czech operas: Dvořák’s Rusalka and Martinů’s The Miracles of Mary.
- Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre, where it was premièred.
- Enchanting art and architecture. Private tours of the Estates Theatre and the Obecní dum (Municipal House).
- A day in the countryside north of Prague.
- 5-star hotel in the Old Town.
- Talks by leading Czech musicologist, Jan Smaczny.
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27 December–3 January 2010
8 days •
£2,610
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Opera in Cardiff
- Rigoletto (Verdi) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) with Bryn Terfel, Amanda Roocroft and Christopher Purves.
- Excursions, talks and walks.
- 5-star hotel in the Cardiff Bay development.
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24–27 June 2010
4 days •
£950
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Opera in Leipzig & Dresden
- Rienzi and Parsifal (Wagner); Don Giovanni (Mozart) and La Bohème (Puccini).
- Rebuilding, restoration and refurbishment has wrought wonders in these once shattered cities.
- Led by musicologist Roderick Swanston.
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1–6 April 2010
6 days •
£2,080
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