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TRAVELFOR THE ARTS AUTUMN LIBRETTO 2016 OPERA, BALLET, CLASSICAL MUSIC THE ARTS ESCORTED AND BESPOKE HOLIDAYS NEW TOURS FOR 2017 THE CANARY ANNA NETREBKO ISLANDS FESTIVAL AT LA SCALA page 3 page 4 THE ROYAL DANISH BALLET THE RING IN COPENHAGEN IN BUDAPEST page 6 page 8 www.travelforthearts.com +44Tel: 02020 8799 8799 8350 | Email: 8350 [email protected] [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com 1 welcome to the world of OPERA, DANCE, CLASSICAL MUSIC & ARTS HOLIDAYS Our exclusive group tours are tailored to cater to the needs of lovers of opera, classical music, ballet and the arts. Each tour is carefully researched and created for you to enjoy wonderful performances combined with quality service. Travel for the Arts aims to offer you an unforgettable musical experience. BOOKING DETAILS Fly from regional airports* Flights for our tours are usually Details of all tours featured in this brochure are available on arranged from London airports. our website www.travelforthearts.com. Many of our holidays However we are able to look into are taken up very quickly after the brochure launch, so we flights from any other airport, subject would encourage you to get in touch as soon as possible if to availability, so please get in touch with us you are interested in making a booking. to discuss your requirements. MAKE AN ENQUIRY *Additional costs may apply. You can make an enquiry about one of our tours All information is available on our website www.travelforthearts.com. in three ways: All the flights and flight-inclusive holidays in this brochure are • Call us on 020 8799 8350 financially protected by the ATOL scheme under ATOL no.2178. When you pay for a flight inclusive holiday you will be supplied with an ATOL • Email [email protected] Certificate. Please ask for it and check to ensure that everything you • Visit our website www.travelforthearts.com booked (flights, hotels and other services) is listed on it. Please see our booking conditions for further information or for more information and make a booking enquiry by going into the about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate go to: www.atol. tour and completing the Booking Enquiry Form. org.uk/ATOLCertificate If space is available on the tour of your choice you will be given a 7-day option. OPENING HOURS Our office hours are Monday – Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm. We are closed on UK public holidays. There is an answerphone and we will return any out-of-hours telephone calls on the next working day if you leave your name and telephone number. AUDITORIO DE TENERIFE 2 Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com THE CANARY ISLANDS FESTIVAL Price from £1675 pp 27 – 30 January 2017 Tour code: TFS1 Join us for winter sun in 5-star style on the picturesque Canary Island of Tenerife. Our classical music tour features concerts by the Ensemble Villa de la Orotava in the impressive Auditorio de Tenerife, designed by Santiago de Calatrava and opened in 2003, and the Academy of Ancient Music who present their programme in the contrasting Teatro Guimerá, the oldest theatre in the Canaries. LA LAGUNA, TENERIFE FRI 27 JAN Evening arrival in Tenerife and transfer the evening performance at the Auditorio PROGRAMME to Puerto de la Cruz to check in at the 5-star Hotel de Tenerife. 28 Jan 20.00 ENSEMBLE VILLA DE LA OROTAVA Inc Botánico and The Oriental Spa Garden, an elegant SUN 29 JAN This morning we visit the Bodega Programme: Haydn Divertimento and classic member of ‘The Leading Hotels of the en Do M Hob.2/7, Beethoven Rondino, Monje winery, set in a typical landscape of World’. A welcome dinner will be served in the Weber Adagio and Rondo, vineyards, mountains, sea and sun. Built in 1956, Krommer Partita op. 57 F hotel this evening. the winery was modernised in 1983 but still holds Venue: Auditorio de Tenerife SAT 28 JAN Join your guide this morning for an the original oak barrels where the traditional red 29 Jan 20.30 ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Inc excursion to the UNESCO heritage town of La wine is left to ferment and mature. We will taste C: Pavlo Beznosiuk Soprano: Rowan Pierce Laguna, former capital of the island. Your guide the local wine and cheese before lunch served in Programme: Purcell Overture in will lead you through the streets and grand the Bodega’s restaurant. Return to the hotel for a G minor and Timon’s initial melody, Vivaldi Concert for strings RV157, squares with beautiful balconies, and we visit free afternoon. In the evening transfer to Teatro Concert for strings RV151, the church of the convent of Santa Catalina, the Guimerá for the second performance. Handel Sonata Op. 5 Nr. 4 in G major, cathedral and see the façade of the episcopal Cantata ‘Armida abbandonata’ MON 30 JAN Transfer to Reina Sofia airport for Venue: Teatro Guimerá, Tenerife palace. Return to the hotel for the afternoon at your homeward flight. leisure for independent exploration. Transfer to FLIGHTS Easyjet 27 Jan London Gatwick - Tenerife dep: 13.50 arr: 18.10 30 Jan Tenerife - London Gatwick dep: 13.05 arr: 17.30 Flight schedules are subject to alteration. Flights from other UK airports can be arranged on request. PRICE (PER PERSON) Tour price £1675 Single room supplement £210 Land-only tour price £1475 Deposit required £350 Tour price includes: Flights and airport taxes, group transfers from and to airport and for included activities where applicable, accommodation, breakfast daily, one lunch, one dinner, sightseeing tours as described including guides and entrance fees, first category ticket for each included performance, restaurant guide and city notes, the services of our local representative or tour manager. “I thoroughly enjoyed this lovely festival on the interesting island of Tenerife - and the weather certainly did not disappoint!” ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Miss M, Kent Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com 3 ANNA NETREBKO AT LA SCALA Price from £1695 pp 10 – 13 March 2017 Tour code: MIL1 We visit Milan to hear Anna Netrebko sing Violetta in the 1990 production of Verdi’s La traviata at the Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Nello Santi. With plenty of free time for independent sightseeing and shopping, this short weekend break also features a welcome dinner at a private residence owned by a local collector of antique musical instruments, with a demonstration included, and a visit to Piacenza for a performance of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Teatro Municipale. TEATRO ALLA SCALA FRI 10 MAR Afternoon arrival in Milan and check in at the 4-star Starhotels Rosa Grand, located in the heart of the city very close to the Duomo and VISIT MILAN WITH CAROL SAVAGE Teatro alla Scala. In the evening we transfer to our welcome buffet dinner at Casa Giulini in the city centre. Owned by Fernanda Giulini, a trained A professional concert and opera singer, Carol regularly travels as a tour manager with us. She says: pianist and entrepreneur, the house contains a selection of her extensive collection of antique “A long established cradle of art, music, food and fashion, Milan musical instruments, some of which have been is exciting and vibrant, elegant and sophisticated, with top class lent to institutions including Teatro alla Scala to be used in their performances. shopping and restaurants. La Scala, arguably the home of Italian SAT 11 MAR Join your guide this morning for a grand opera, has a magnificent interior with six tiers of boxes in a walking tour of Milan city centre and a visit to the horseshoe around a huge stage, hosting excellent (and sometimes Teatro alla Scala museum, which contains many controversial) opera productions and concerts. I have performed artefacts from the theatre's history. The afternoon is at leisure before the evening performance at there, been an enthusiastic audience member, and find that the Teatro alla Scala. excitement being amongst a lively and demonstrative Milanese SUN 12 MAR Morning at leisure for independent audience never pales!” activities. In the early afternoon we transfer to Piacenza for the matinee opera performance. After the performance we return to Milan for a PROGRAMME FLIGHTS farewell dinner in a local restaurant. 10 Mar 19.30 MUSICAL EVENING Inc British Airways Programme: Buffet dinner and a 10 Mar London Heathrow - Milan Linate dep: 12.50 arr: 15.50 MON 13 MAR Transfer to the airport for your demonstration of antique musical 13 Mar Milan Linate - London Heathrow dep: 13.05 arr: 14.10 homeward journey. instruments Flight schedules are subject to alteration. Flights from Venue: Casa Giulini, Milan other UK airports can be arranged on request. ANNA NETREBKO 11 Mar 20.00 LA TRAVIATA Verdi Inc PRICE (PER PERSON) D: Liliana Cavani C: Nello Santi Tour price £1695 Cast: Anna Netrebko, Chiara Isotton, Single room supplement £240 Leo Nucci, Francesco Meli, Club Europe flight upgrade from £250 Constantino Finucci, Abramo Rosalen, Land-only tour price £1575 Alessandro Spina Deposit required £400 Venue: Teatro alla Scala, Milan Tour price includes: Flights and airport taxes, group transfers 12 Mar 15.30 COSÌ FAN TUTTE Mozart Inc from and to airport and for included activities where applicable, D: Giorgio Ferrara C: Dante Ferretti accommodation, breakfast daily, one buffet dinner, one dinner, Cast: Lucia Cirillo, Thomas Tatzl, sightseeing tours as described including guides and entrance Lavinia Bini fees, first category ticket for each included performance, opera synopses, restaurant guide and city notes, the services of our local Venue: Teatro Municipale, Piacenza representative or tour manager. 4 Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com DISCOVER LINZ Price from £1280 pp 23 – 26 March 2017 Tour code: LIN1 NEW DESTINATION & NEW PRODUCTION We are delighted to present a tour introducing the charming Austrian city of Linz, whose brand-new Landestheater was opened in 2013, boasts excellent acoustics and has attracted considerable attention, not least for having hosted many premieres by contemporary composers.