Opera Tours
Enjoy wonderful music in some of Europe's finest opera houses and festivals
Our music tours and city breaks enable you to enjoy a cultural holiday visiting galleries, museums and places of interest alongside first class performances. All our hotels are carefully chosen for comfort and style.
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Opera in Paris
Three evenings of French opera, performed at the Bastille, the Opera Comique, and the Theatre des Champs-Elysees.
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
Rameau: Samson
Massenet: Werther
We stay at the Hotel Edouard VII close to the Palais Garnier and the Opera Comique.
All our tours begin at the Hotel.
Opera in Paris
Day 1
Arrive during the day at the Hotel Edouard VII in the heart of the city close to the Galeries Lafayettes.
Welcome dinner a local restaurant, close to the Opera Bastille, before the evening performance.
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
Cast includes: Sabine Devielhe, Huw Montague Randall, Sophie Koch, Gordon Binter
Day 2
This morning we visit the Musee de la Vie Romantique which commemorates the lives of Georges Sand, Chopin and Pauline Viardot. Some free time during the afternoon before we gather for dinner and tonight’s performance of Rameau's Samson at the Opera Comique.
Conductor: Raphael Pinchon
Cast includes: Jaret Ott, Ana Maria Labin, Julie Roset, Mirco Palaxxi,Camile Chopin.
Day 3
Today we visit the Cite de la Musique which house a wonderful coleection of instruments and displays. Once again there will be free time to sample the city before we meet for dinner and a short talk about tonight’s opera.
Massenet's Werther
Conductor: Marc Leroy-Calatayud
Cast includes: Benjamin Bernheim, Marina Viotti, Jean-Sebastian Bou, Sandra Hamaoui
Day 4
Guests make there way home after a leisurely breakfast.
20-23 March 2025
£tbc per person sharing a double room
£150 Single supplement for a double room
Deposit £600
Accommodation
Hotel Edouard VII (5*)
Including bed & breakfast
Group Size
A small group of between 4 and 9 people
What’s included:
Tickets to three operas
Dinner on three nights at local restaurants
Opera and Music in Hamburg
A visit to the spectacular Elbphilharmonie and the Hamburg Staatsoper, for three operas and an orchestral concert.
Verdi: Falstaff
Puccini: La Fianciulla del West
Verdi: Il trovatore
Martinu: Double Concerto,
Bruch; Violin Concerto, Dvorak: Seventh Symphony
We stay at the splendid Hotel Steigenberger, close to the centre of Hamburg
All our tours begin at the Hotel.
Opera and Music in Hamburg
Day 1
Arrive during the day at the Hotel Steigenberger in the heart of the city.
Welcome dinner in the hotel or a local restaurant
Day 2
Today we visit the fine collection of medieval art in the Kunsthalle. There will be time to explore the city in the afternoon before we meet again for a short talk on tonight’s opera. Dinner will be taken in a nearby restaurant before we walk to the Staatsoper for a performance of La Fianciulla del West by Puccini.
Day 3
Today we visit the atmospheric Dreichstrasse and the waterfront. Once again there will be free time to sample the city before we meet for dinner and a short talk about tonight’s opera.
Verdi: Il trovatore
Day 4
This morning we travel to the stunning concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie on the waterfront for a symphony concert by the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg conducted by James Conlon.
Daniel Cho is soloist in Bruch's Violin Concerto and the programme also includes Martinu's Double Concerto and Dvorak's captivating 7th Symphony.
Free time in the afternoon before the evening performance of Verdi's Falstaff
Day 5
Guests make there way home after a leisurely breakfast.
3-7 April 2025
£2495 per person sharing a double room
£250 Single supplement for a double room
Deposit £600
Accommodation
Hotel Steigenberger (5*)
Including bed & breakfast
Group Size
A small group of between 4 and 9 people
What’s included:
Tickets to the concert in the Elbphilharmonie.
Tickets to three operas at the Staatsoper
Dinner on three nights at local restaurants
Wagner in Berlin
A feast of Wagner at Deutsche Oper and at the Staatsoper in Berlin.
Lohengrin, Parsifal and Tannhausser
We stay at the 5* Westin Grand Hotel close to the Unter den Linden in the heart of Friedrichstadt.
Parsifal is performed at the Staatsoper as part of the Berlin Festtage.
All our tours begin at the Hotel.
Wagner in Berlin
Day 1
Arrive at the Hotel Westin Grand in the afternoon before welcome drinks and dinner at a local restaurant.
Day 2
Today we visit the Museum Island in the morning. After dinner at a nearby restaurant we travel to Deutsche Oper for the performance of Lohengrin.
Cast includes: Byung Gil Kim, Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki, Nina Stemme and Dean Murphy
Day 3
Today we visit the German Historical Museum in the morning. A late lunch precedes today's performance of Parsifal at the nearby Staatsoper at 16h00
Cast includes: Lauri Vasar, Rene Pape, Andeas Shager, Tomas Tomasson, Kurt Rydl.
Day 4
This morning there is free time before we meet for lunch and travel to Deutsches Oper for the performance of Tannhauser at 17h00
Cast includes: Tobias Kehrer, Klaus Florian Vogt, Samuel Hasselhorn, Elisabeth Tiege, Marcus Brook.
Day 5
Guests make there way home after a leisurely breakfast.
10-14 April 2025
£X per person sharing a double room
Single supplement for a double room
Deposit £750
Prices on application
Accommodation
Westin Grand Hotel (5*)
Including bed & breakfast
Group Size
A small group of between 4 and 9 people
What’s included:
Tickets to three operas, two at Deutsches Oper and one at the Staatsoper Festtage performance of Parsifal
Dinner or Lunch on three days at local restaurants