TRAVELFOR THE ARTS AUTUMN, WINTER & SPRING 2016/17 OPERA, BALLET, CLASSICAL MUSIC THE ARTS ESCORTED AND BESPOKE HOLIDAYS NEW PRODUCTIONS FOR 2017 CHRISTMAS IN NEW YEAR STOCKHOLM IN ZURICH page 8 page 13 THE BERLIN THE RING IN FESTTAGE WIESBADEN page 20 page 24 www.travelforthearts.com +44 20 8799 8350 [email protected] welcome welcome to the world of BOOKING DETAILS 2016/17 OPERA, All tours mentioned in this brochure (as well as additional tours) CLASSICAL MUSIC are available to view online at www.travelforthearts.com OPERA, DANCE, Many of our holidays are taken up very quickly after the brochure AND DANCE SEASON launch. Sometimes they are fully booked after appearing on our website or as advance information in our Newsletter. We would We are delighted to present our selection of highlights from CLASSICAL MUSIC encourage you to book early if you are interested in one of our the new 2016/17 Season, featuring the best of opera, music and group tours. dance programmes across Europe. This brochure includes new ARTS HOLIDAYS MAKE AN ENQUIRY 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 We are delighted to bring you exciting new tours in our brochure • Email [email protected] • Visit our website www.travelforthearts.com and make Tours 4 – 27 for the 2016/17 Season. Our exclusive group tours are specifically a booking enquiry by going into the tour and completing À la Carte guide 28 – 41 tailored to cater to the needs of opera, ballet and arts lovers. the Booking Enquiry Form. Booking form 42 – 45 Each tour is carefully researched and created for you to enjoy If space is available on the tour of your choice you will be given a 7-day option. wonderful performances combined with quality service and CALENDAR OF TOURS COMPLETE A BOOKING FORM Date Tour Page beautiful destinations. Travel for the Arts aims to offer you an Once you have your option, we require a completed booking form. unforgettable musical experience - that our customers travel This is available at the end of this brochure, or you can download 3 – 5 Oct Giselle at La Scala 5 with us time and again is probably testament to this fact. one from our website http://www.travelforthearts.com/how-to-book/ 22 – 27 Dec Saxonian Christmas 6 When you return your booking form we require your deposit or 23 – 26 Dec Noël at the Paris Opéra 7 full payment (see Late bookings). You must read and agree to the 24 – 28 Dec Christmas in Stockholm 8 Terms and Conditions. 24 – 28 Dec Bavarian Christmas 10 LATE BOOKINGS 28 Dec – 1 Jan Silvester in Berlin 11 If you book within 6 weeks of departure, you will need to 28 Dec – 1 Jan New Year in Mozart’s Salzburg 12 provide a credit/debit card number for the full amount of the 29 Dec – 2 Jan New Year in Zurich 13 holiday or send us a cheque for the full amount of the holiday. 25 – 29 Jan The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg 14 BOOKING REFERENCE 28 – 31 Jan Jonas Kaufmann sings Lohengrin in Paris 15 When you make an enquiry you will be given a booking 10 – 13 Feb Verdi in Vienna 16 reference. Please quote your Booking Reference on all subsequent correspondence. 22 – 26 Mar Norwegian Lights of Opera 17 16 – 19 Mar Strauss and Wagner in Lyon 18 MOBILITY TRAVEL FOR THE ARTS TEAM 6 – 10 Apr The Berlin Festtage 20 Please note that most tours involve walking tours of approximately 3 hours. If you have difficulty with mobility you may be asked to sit 13 – 17 Apr Wagner in Thuringia 21 out some of the activities on the itinerary. 16 – 20 Apr Dresden Mozart Days 22 25 – 30 Apr The Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg 23 PERFORMANCE TICKETS All performance tickets are subject to confirmation. This is due to 22 – 29 May The Ring in Wiesbaden 24 the differences in the way opera houses administer their ticket sales 15 – 19 Jun Richard Strauss in Leipzig 25 and the limited availability of certain performances. We will inform 19 – 22 Jun Monteverdi in Venice 26 you at the point of booking when we expect to receive confirmation Richard Savage Emma Feasey Pablo Basombrio of the performance tickets; in most cases this will be 12 weeks prior TOURS IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARPENTER HOLIDAYS C.E.O. General Manager Sales and to departure, although this can vary depending on the destination. Reservations 21 – 26 Oct Oxford Lieder 4 Manager SEATING ARRANGEMENTS For all included performances we obtain best available tickets (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 Vanessa Kyriacou Mark Saunsbury Juliet Manners 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 Product Manager à la Carte Programme Our office hours are Monday – Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm it and check to ensure that everything you booked (flights, hotels and other Reservations and Marketing 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 Manager Manager 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: ALCINA AT THE OPERNHAUS ZURICH C. MONIKA RITTERSHAUS Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com LA BOHÈME AT OPER LEIPZIG C. TOM SCHULZE Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com 1 welcome BROCHURE HIGHLIGHTS EXPERTS IN SPECIAL THE ELBPHILHARMONIE CULTURAL TRAVEL FEATURES IN HAMBURG All our tours are led by travel experts, and many of our tour 25 – 29 January managers are also professional musicians and music specialists. Look out for Price from £1550 Below is a selection of the many people who work with us to the TFA Angel ensure that you have the best experience possible. Attend a performance in the new Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during its opening month. The tour On some of the tours throughout the brochure also includes opera at the Staatsoper Hamburg. we give guidance to noteworthy elements and highlights. Do look out for them. Richard Savage is C.E.O. at Specialised Travel page 14 and Travel for the Arts and has happily combined a career as a professional singer with running a specialist musical travel company for 40 years. We hope the following keys will be helpful in JONAS KAUFMANN Simon Rees is a freelance writer, lecturer and highlighting some of the special features we translator. For 23 years he was dramaturg at offer on our tours. SINGS LOHENGRIN Welsh National Opera. IN PARIS EXPERT-LED TOURS 28 – 31 January All our tours are accompanied by professional and Stephen Carpenter led our Mendelssohn in Price from £1695 Scotland tour in 2015, and is planning and knowledgeable tour managers, and in some cases, leading further holidays in association with expert lecturers. See world-renowned tenor Jonas Kaufmann us in 2016 and beyond. in the brand-new production from the Opéra de Paris. NO SINGLE SUPPLEMENT page 15 Carol Savage is a professional concert and We are pleased to offer a selection of tours with opera singer, with a degree in History of Art from no single supplement for our individual travellers London University. staying in a double or twin room. NEW DESTINATION VERDI IN Patrick Mylon will be familiar to many of our guests, having tour managed for almost 10 years. We regularly offer tours to new destinations VIENNA He is a true opera fan, particularly of Wagner, and based on our ongoing research and also on has attended more than 10 Ring Cycles. recommendations. 10 – 13 February Price from £2295 Anna Netrebko stars in Daniele Abbado’s NEW PRODUCTION Zita Stockwell has been leading our tours for over new production of Il trovatore at the 25 years and is an expert on many destinations, We are keen to give you the chance to see Staatsoper, combined with two other particularly her native Budapest. She is a keen brand-new productions. Look out for our tours great Verdi productions. opera and concert attendee. showcasing new opera and ballet productions around the world. page 16 David Waite is a professional Blue Badge Tourist Guide and also the Founder & Director of Guiding INDEPENDENT TRAVEL You Ltd, a tour guiding and training company. For some of our UK tours, we first rendezvous together as a group at our chosen destination, but we are of course happy to help with individual STRAUSS AND travel arrangements. Raffaella Golinucci is a freelance professional WAGNER IN LYON Tour Manager and has worked in the music business for many years. She also often looks 16 – 19 March after well-known musicians. Price from £1750 Enjoy a feast of gastronomy and opera in our first visit to the historic city of Lyon, Eva Gordon-Smith is a consultant, lecturer and with included productions of Strauss’ Elektra Blue Badge Guide.