TRAVELFOR THE ARTS SPRING, SUMMER & AUTUMN 2018 OPERA, BALLET CLASSICAL MUSIC HOLIDAYS NEW TOURS FOR 2018 ROSSINI IN THE RING VENICE IN MUNICH page 7 page 12 SAVONLINNA DISCOVER OPERA FESTIVAL MONTENEGRO page 24 page 28 www.travelforthearts.com +44 20 8799 8350 [email protected] welcome welcome to the world of OPERA, BALLET AND CLASSICAL MUSIC Within this brochure you will find our selection of small group tours for Spring, Summer & Autumn 2018, carefully researched and created by our music and travel experts. This year we present three new tours to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Gioachino Rossini, which can be found on the green pages. Our ever-popular Ring Cycles are marked by one of Wagner’s favourite colours, purple, while our traditional springtime visits to major opera houses and the summer and autumn opera and music festivals are listed in red. We are also pleased to continue our collaboration with Stephen Carpenter of Carpenter Holidays which can be found in the blue section, and, for further information on our à la Carte offering for individual travellers, please see the gold pages at the back of the brochure. We hope you will enjoy wonderful opera, ballet and classical music on a relaxing and memorable holiday with us. Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com BOOKING DETAILS SPRING, SUMMER All tours mentioned in this brochure (as well as additional tours) & AUTUMN 2018 are available to view online at www.travelforthearts.com Many of our holidays are taken up very quickly after the brochure We are delighted to present our selection of highlights from the launch. Sometimes they are fully booked after appearing on our Spring, Summer and Autumn Festival Season, featuring the best website or as advance information in our Newsletter, so we would of opera, ballet and classical music programmes across Europe. encourage you to book early if you are interested in one of our group tours. CONTENTS MAKE AN ENQUIRY You can make an enquiry about one of our tours in three ways: Tours 4 – 35 • Call us on 020 8799 8350 À la Carte information 36 – 37 • Email [email protected] Booking form 38 – 41 • Visit our website www.travelforthearts.com and make a booking enquiry by going into the tour and completing CALENDAR OF TOURS the Booking Enquiry Form. If space is available on the tour of your choice you will be Date Tour Page given a 7-day option. 27 – 30 Mar Discover Trieste 15 COMPLETE A BOOKING FORM 30 Mar – 3 Apr Dresden Belcanto Days 16 Once you have your option, we require a completed booking form. 11 – 15 Apr Roman Holiday 17 This is available at the end of this brochure, or you can download 12 – 15 Apr Spring Ballet in Vienna 18 one from our website http://www.travelforthearts.com/how-to-book/ 27 Apr – 1 May Mozart across the Baltic 19 When you return your booking form we require your deposit or 4 – 13 May The Ring in Karlsruhe 9 full payment (see Late bookings). You must read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. 17 – 21 May Chopin and Opera in Warsaw 20 28 May – 4 Jun The Ring in Odense 10 LATE BOOKINGS If you book within 8 weeks of departure, you will need to provide 12 – 16 Jun Riga Opera Festival 21 a credit/debit card number or send us a cheque for the full amount 21 – 24 Jun Arena di Verona 22 of the holiday. 4 – 11 Jul The Ring in Sofia 11 BOOKING REFERENCE 13 – 16 Jul Buxton Festival Opera 23 When you make an enquiry you will be given a booking 17 – 21 Jul Savonlinna Opera Festival 24 reference. Please quote your booking reference on all 19 – 28 Jul The Ring in Munich 12 subsequent correspondence. 25 – 28 Jul Dorset Opera Festival 25 MOBILITY 25 – 29 Jul Rossini in Wildbad 5 Please note that most tours involve walking tours of approximately 3 hours. If you have difficulty with mobility you may be asked to sit 25 – 30 Jul The Ring in Erl 13 out some of the activities on the itinerary. 1 – 5 Aug Opera de Baugé 26 9 – 13 Aug The Puccini Festival 27 PERFORMANCE TICKETS All performance tickets are subject to confirmation. This is due to 19 – 24 Aug The Rossini Festival in Pesaro 6 the differences in the way opera houses administer their ticket sales 21 – 25 Aug Discover Montenegro 28 and the limited availability of certain performances. We will inform 24 – 30 Aug Salzburg Festival 29 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 2 – 6 Oct The Verdi Festival in Parma 30 to departure, although this can vary depending on the destination. 18 – 21 Oct Rossini in Venice 7 1 – 5 Nov Wexford Festival Opera 31 SEATING ARRANGEMENTS For all included performances we obtain best available tickets TOURS IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARPENTER HOLIDAYS (as specified by the venue). However many of the older theatres in Europe have non-staggered rows, little rake, cramped legroom and 17 – 21 May The Somme - Do Not Forget Me Quite 33 sometimes poor sightlines. Please be assured that we do our best to 26 Jun – 1 Jul Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg 34 request the best available tickets for all performances but that, on occasion, allowances might need to be made for the age and layout 1 – 5 Aug Klosters Festival 35 of the venue. OPENING HOURS All information is available on our website www.travelforthearts.com. Our office hours are Monday – Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm. All the flights and flight-inclusive holidays in this brochure are financially We are closed on UK public holidays. There is an answerphone and protected by the ATOL scheme under ATOL no.2178. When you pay for a flight we will return any out-of-hours telephone calls on the next working inclusive holiday you will be supplied with an ATOL Certificate. Please ask for it and check to ensure that everything you booked (flights, hotels and other day if you leave your name and telephone number. services) is listed on it. Please see our booking conditions for further information or for more information about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate go to: www.atol.org.uk/ATOLCertificate TOSCA BY THE TEATRO DELL'OPERA DI ROMA COVER IMAGE: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO AT THE ESTONIAN NATIONAL OPERA Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com 31 welcome EXPERTS IN CULTURAL TRAVEL All our tours are led by travel experts, and many of our tour managers are also professional musicians and music specialists. Below is a selection of the many people who work with us to ensure that you have the best experience possible. Simon Rees is a freelance writer, lecturer Stephen Carpenter has planned and led and translator. For 23 years he was several tours in association with us over dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. the last three years and continues to offer tours to music festivals with his company, Carpenter Holidays. Carol Savage is a professional concert Patrick Mylon will be familiar to many and opera singer, with a degree in History of our guests, having tour managed for of Art from London University. over 10 years. He is a true opera fan, particularly of Wagner, and has attended more than 10 Ring Cycles. Zita Stockwell has been leading our Eva Gordon-Smith is a consultant, lecturer tours for over 25 years and is an expert and Blue Badge Guide. She has been on many destinations, particularly her managing concert tours in a number of native Budapest. She is a keen opera European countries for 25 years. and concert attendee. David Waite is a professional Blue Badge Raffaella Golinucci is a freelance Tourist Guide and also the Founder & professional Tour Manager and has Director of Guiding You Ltd, a tour guiding worked in the music business for many and training company. years. She also often looks after well- known musicians. TRAVEL FOR THE ARTS TEAM Richard Savage Emma Benson Pablo Basombrio Vanessa Kyriacou Mark Saunsbury Juliet Manners C.E.O. General Manager Sales and Product Manager à la Carte Programme and Reservations Reservations Marketing Manager Manager Manager SPECIAL FEATURES We are delighted to offer special features on some of our tours, such as No Single Supplement, Meet the Artist and By Rail. Please look out for these in the introductions to each tour. 2 Tel: 020 8799 8350 | Email: [email protected] | www.travelforthearts.com BROCHURE HIGHLIGHTS THE RING IN MUNICH 19 – 28 July Tour code: MUC2 Price from £3970 Andreas Kriegenburg’s revived production from the Bayerische Staatsoper will be conducted by Kirill Petrenko and boasts a cast of esteemed Wagnerian singers, including Jonas Kaufmann as Siegmund and Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde. page 12 THE RING IN ERL 25 – 30 July Tour code: ERL1 Price from £2095 Over the past 20 years, the Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Austria has become established as a pilgrimage destination for fans of Wagner from all over the world; we visit for their production of the Ring, directed and conducted by festival founder Gustav Kuhn. page 13 THE ROSSINI FESTIVAL IN PESARO 19 – 24 August Tour code: PES1 Price from £2180 The festival marks the 150th anniversary of Rossini's death with new productions of Adina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Ricciardo e Zoraide starring Juan Diego Flórez and Pretty Yende. page 6 SALZBURG FESTIVAL 24 – 30 Aug Tour code: SZG2 Price from £2940 New productions of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea are joined by a concert performance of Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs des Perles with Aida Garifullina and Plácido Domingo, and concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim.