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Music Tours

Music in Berlin

Music in Berlin

  • Excellent collections of fine and decorative arts and first rate architecture.
  • Accompanied both by a musicologist and an art historian to lead walks and visits.
  • Includes tickets to Eugen Onegin, Marriage of Figaro and Masked Ball, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
14–19 Feb 2012
6 days
£2,380
The Chilingirian Quartet

The Chilingirian Quartet

  • A 40th-anniversary weekend with The Chilingirian Quartet and talks on the music by Richard Wigmore.
  • Some of the best music in the string quartet repertoire, including works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert and two quintet, for which they are joined by cellist Bernard Gregor-Smith.
  • The audience stays at The Castle Hotel in Taunton, one of the finest in the country.
17–19 Feb 2012
3 days
£690
Opera in Turin & Milan

Opera in Turin & Milan

  • Three performances at two of Italy’s most prestigious opera houses, accompanied by some of the finest northern Italian art and architecture.
  • Includes a guided tour of La Scala and its museum.
  • Led by both a cultural historian and an art historian.
22–26 Feb 2012
5 days
£2,360
The Nash Ensemble

The Nash Ensemble

  • A weekend of four concerts with members of one of Britain's finest and most adventurous chamber ensembles.
  • An exciting programme featuring music from the ensemble's past two concert seasons.
  • The audience stays at The Castle Hotel in Taunton, one of the finest in the country.
23–25 Mar 2012
3 days
£690
Opera in Spain

Opera in Spain

  • In Valencia: Puccini’s Tosca and Massenet’s Thaïs with Plácido Domingo at Calatrava’s stunning opera house.
  • In Barcelona at the Liceu, the country’s foremost opera house: a gripping late-Romantic double-bill based on a pair of Oscar Wilde stories, Zemlinksy’s Eine florentinische Tragödie (A Florentine Tragedy) and Der Zwerg (The Dwarf).
10–15 Apr 2012
6 days
£2,540
The Fitzwilliam Quartet

The Fitzwilliam Quartet

  • Quartets, Quintets, Sextets and an Octet. The Fitzwilliam are joined by friends to perform four concerts in the Great Hall at Jesmond Dene House in Newcastle.
  • Talks from the musicians form an integral part of the concerts and there is ample opportunity to mix with the musicians during the weekend.
  • The audience stays at Jesmond Dene House, one of the finest hotels in the country.
27–29 Apr 2012
3 days
£690
Opera in Dresden & Leipzig

Opera in Dresden & Leipzig

  • Rigoletto (Verdi), L’elisir d’Amore (Donizetti), Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Brecht/ Weill) and The Magic Flute (Mozart).
  • Rebuilding, restoration and refurbishment has wrought wonders in these once shattered cities.
  • Led by a musicologist. 
29 Apr–5 May 2012
7 days
£2,230
Music in Brno & Prague

Music in Brno & Prague

  • In Brno: Rusalka (Dvořák) and Madama Butterfly (Puccini).
  • In Prague: Katya Kabanova (Janáček) at the National Theatre and Má vlast (Smetana) at the Obecní dům (Municipal House).
  • Led by a musicologist.
9–14 May 2012
6 days
£2,180
Naples

Naples

  • Selects the best of the art, architecture and antiquities in Naples.
  • Performance of Puccini’s La Bohème at the recently restored Teatro San Carlo.
  • Also visits the palaces and gardens at Caserta.
20–25 May 2012
6 days
£1,890
Great Houses of the North

Great Houses of the North

  • The finest country houses and gardens in northern England, from mediaeval to Victorian, with an emphasis on the eighteenth century.
  • Unhurried: there is plenty of time to rest, relax and absorb. Only two hotel changes.
  • Some of the most glorious countryside in England, plus a few items other than houses.
21–30 May 2012
10 days
£3,080
TESTIMONIALS
A congenial tour leader and an excellent lecturer.
N.L., Edinburgh
Our lecturer was, as ever, the most congenial of companions on this tour. His organisation was faultless. Above all, his erudition and enthusiasm greatly enhanced our enjoyment of the week.
N. & I.N., Worcestershire
Excellent – music programme wonderful.
I.B., Gloucestershire

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Egypt tours

Meticulously planned and led by expert, companionable lecturers, our small-group tours to Egypt explore Egypt's many remarkable archaeological sites, such as Luxor, Abu Simbel, Denderah and Giza.
 

Expert Lecturers

The tour leaders on our small-group tours are academics and specialists in art, architecture, archaeology, gastronomy, history or music as well as good travel companions.

Italian tours

Our small-group guided tours to Italy visit the most renowned culturally- and historically-rich cities, such as Florence and Venice and lesser-known towns and regions, like Lucca and the Venetian Hills. 

Music Festivals

MRT’s all-inclusive classical music festivals combine world-class performers–Andreas Scholl, The Gabrieli, Natalie Klein–in sensational venues –Basilica di San Marco, Château de Versailles,– and concerts are exclusive to MRT clients.

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