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TRAVELFOR THE ARTS SPRING AND SUMMER FESTIVALS 2017 OPERA, BALLET, CLASSICAL MUSIC THE ARTS ESCORTED AND BESPOKE HOLIDAYS NEW PRODUCTIONS FOR 2017 RIGA OPERA GRANGE PARK FESTIVAL OPERA page 9 page 10 FESTIVAL D’AIX- THE ROSSINI EN-PROVENCE FESTIVAL IN PESARO page 16 page 22 www.travelforthearts.com +44 20 8799 8350 [email protected] welcome welcome to the world of OPERA, DANCE, CLASSICAL MUSIC ARTS HOLIDAYS We are delighted to bring you exciting new tours in our brochure for the 2017 Summer Season. Our exclusive group tours are specifically tailored to cater to the needs of opera, ballet and arts lovers. Each tour is carefully researched and created for you to enjoy wonderful performances combined with quality service and beautiful destinations. Travel for the Arts aims to offer you an unforgettable musical experience - that our customers travel with us time and time again is probably testament to this fact. TRAVEL FOR THE ARTS TEAM Richard Savage Emma Feasey Pablo Basombrio C.E.O. General Manager Sales and Reservations Manager Vanessa Kyriacou Mark Saunsbury Juliet Manners Product Manager à la Carte Programme Reservations and Marketing Manager Manager Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com BOOKING DETAILS 2017 SUMMER OPERA All tours mentioned in this brochure (as well as additional tours) AND CLASSICAL are available to view online at www.travelforthearts.com Many of our holidays are taken up very quickly after the brochure MUSIC SEASON launch. Sometimes they are fully booked after appearing on our website or as advance information in our Newsletter, so we would We are delighted to present our selection of highlights from encourage you to book early if you are interested in one of our the new 2017 Summer Season, featuring the best of the group tours. opera and music programmes across Europe. This brochure MAKE AN ENQUIRY includes new destinations and old favourites alike. You can make an enquiry about one of our tours in three ways: • Call us on 020 8799 8350 CONTENTS • Email [email protected] • Visit our website www.travelforthearts.com and make Tours 4 – 31 a booking enquiry by going into the tour and completing À la Carte guide 32 – 45 the Booking Enquiry Form. Booking form 47 – 49 If space is available on the tour of your choice you will be given a 7-day option. CALENDAR OF TOURS COMPLETE A BOOKING FORM Date Tour Page Once you have your option, we require a completed booking form. This is available at the end of this brochure, or you can download 13 – 17 Apr Wagner in Thuringia 4 one from our website http://www.travelforthearts.com/how-to-book/ 16 – 20 Apr Dresden Mozart Days 5 When you return your booking form we require your deposit or 5 – 9 May Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 6 full payment (see Late bookings). You must read and agree to the 11 – 15 May Return to Wroclaw 7 Terms and Conditions. 23 – 27 May Discover Bilbao 8 LATE BOOKINGS 7 – 12 Jun Riga Opera Festival 9 If you book within 6 weeks of departure, you will need to 15 – 19 Jun Grange Park Opera 10 provide a credit/debit card number for the full amount of the 15 – 19 Jun Richard Strauss in Leipzig 12 holiday or send us a cheque for the full amount of the holiday. 19 – 22 Jun Monteverdi in Venice 13 BOOKING REFERENCE 21 – 23 Jun Nevill Holt Opera Festival 14 When you make an enquiry you will be given a booking 8 – 12 July Festival’d’Aix-en-Provence 16 reference. Please quote your Booking Reference on all subsequent correspondence. 12 – 16 July Summer at the Komische Oper Berlin 15 13 – 16 July Opera at Buxton Festival 18 MOBILITY 27 – 31 July Opéra de Baugé 19 Please note that most tours involve walking tours of approximately 3 hours. If you have difficulty with mobility you may be asked to sit 3 – 6 Aug The Puccini Festival 20 out some of the activities on the itinerary. 10 – 14 Aug Macerata Opera Festival 21 16 – 20 Aug The Rossini Festival in Pesaro 22 PERFORMANCE TICKETS All performance tickets are subject to confirmation. This is due to 24 – 30 Aug Salzburg Festival 24 the differences in the way opera houses administer their ticket sales 25 – 28 Aug Arena di Verona 23 and the limited availability of certain performances. We will inform 28 Jan – 5 Feb The Ring in Dresden 26 you at the point of booking when we expect to receive confirmation of the performance tickets; in most cases this will be 12 weeks prior TOURS IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARPENTER HOLIDAYS to departure, although this can vary depending on the destination. 16 – 21 May Beethoven in the Borders 29 SEATING ARRANGEMENTS 29 Jun – 4 July West Cork Chamber Music Festival 30 For all included performances we obtain best available tickets 12 – 18 Sept Mendelssohn in Scotland 31 (as specified by the venue). However many of the older theatres in Europe have non-staggered rows, little rake, cramped legroom and sometimes poor sightlines. Please be assured that we do our best to request the best available tickets for all performances but that, on occasion, allowances might need to be made for the age and layout All information is available on our website www.travelforthearts.com. of the venue. All the flights and flight-inclusive holidays in this brochure are financially OPENING HOURS protected by the ATOL scheme under ATOL no.2178. When you pay for a flight inclusive holiday you will be supplied with an ATOL Certificate. Please ask for Our office hours are Monday – Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm. it and check to ensure that everything you booked (flights, hotels and other We are closed on UK public holidays. There is an answerphone and services) is listed on it. Please see our booking conditions for further information we will return any out-of-hours telephone calls on the next working or for more information about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate go to: day if you leave your name and telephone number. www.atol.org.uk/ATOLCertificate COVER IMAGE: FAUST BY THE LATVIAN NATIONAL OPERA C. A ZELTINA TEATRO LA FENICE, VENICE Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com 1 welcome EXPERTS IN SPECIAL CULTURAL TRAVEL FEATURES All our tours are led by travel experts, and many of our tour managers are also professional musicians and music specialists. Look out for Below is a selection of the many people who work with us to the TFA Angel ensure that you have the best experience possible. On some of the tours throughout the brochure we give guidance to noteworthy elements and Richard Savage is C.E.O. at Specialised Travel highlights. Do look out for them. and Travel for the Arts and has happily combined a career as a professional singer with running a We hope the following keys will be helpful in specialist musical travel company for 40 years. highlighting some of the special features we offer on our tours. Simon Rees is a freelance writer, lecturer and translator. For 23 years he was dramaturg at EXPERT-LED TOURS Welsh National Opera. While all our tours are accompanied by professional and knowledgeable tour managers, in some cases they also feature expert lecturers. Stephen Carpenter led several tours for us in 2015/16, and is planning and leading further holidays in association with us in MEET THE ARTIST 2017 and beyond. On selected tours we are delighted to be able to offer you the opportunity to meet some of the artists you will have seen on Carol Savage is a professional concert and stage in our included performances. opera singer, with a degree in History of Art from London University. NO SINGLE SUPPLEMENT We are pleased to offer a selection of tours with Patrick Mylon will be familiar to many of our no single supplement for our individual travellers guests, having tour managed for over 10 years. staying in a double or twin room. He is a true opera fan, particularly of Wagner, and has attended more than 10 Ring Cycles. NEW DESTINATION We regularly offer tours to new destinations Zita Stockwell has been leading our tours for over based on our ongoing research and also on 25 years and is an expert on many destinations, recommendations. particularly her native Budapest. She is a keen opera and concert attendee. NEW PRODUCTION We are keen to give you the chance to see David Waite is a professional Blue Badge Tourist Guide and also the Founder & Director of Guiding brand-new productions. Look out for our tours You Ltd, a tour guiding and training company. showcasing new opera and ballet productions around the world. INDEPENDENT TRAVEL Raffaella Golinucci is a freelance professional For some of our UK tours, we first rendezvous Tour Manager and has worked in the music together as a group at our chosen destination, business for many years. She also often looks but we are of course happy to help with individual after well-known musicians. travel arrangements. Eva Gordon-Smith is a consultant, lecturer and Blue Badge Guide. She has been managing BY RAIL concert tours in a number of European countries We know that air travel is not everyone’s for 25 years. preference so we are pleased to offer some of our tours with travel by rail. 2 Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com BROCHURE HIGHLIGHTS DISCOVER BILBAO 23 – 27 May Price from £1875 Our first visit to the Basque country of Northern Spain. We see a performance of Giordano’s Andrea Chénier and a concert by the Bilbao Symphonic Orchestra in this vibrant city of art.