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CULTURAL TOURS TO CENTRAL EUROPE AND BEYOND |
Habsburg Heritage was founded in 1989 and offers carefully planned unpretentious accompanied holidays to musical events in Europe and the UK.
MUSIC AND CULTURE TOURS 2017 - 2018
26 April – 2 May 2017
Four concerts in the historic Teatro Olimpico by Andras Schiff and friends; Palladian villas and Venice.
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12 – 18 May 2017
The Vienna Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim give the traditional opening concert on Smetana’s birthday playing Ma vlast.
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14 – 22 June 2017
Acclaimed semi-staged productions with Adam Fischer and Bayreuth soloists. Irene Theorin, Johan Reuter, Christian Franz and Walter Fink star in the Ring while Parsifal on 21 June features Violeta Urmana, Peter Seiffert and Albert Pesendorfer and a concert performance of Rienzi with Robert Dean Smith and Falk Struckmann.
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27 June - 6 July 2017
Piano and chamber recitals with the wonderful Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt near her summer home in Umbria. From our lovely lakeside hotel we visit Perugia, Assisi, Cortona, Orvieto and do the Piero della Francesca trail.
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27 August - 3 September 2017
Artists including singers Violeta Urmana and Christoph Prégardien, pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja and Igor Levitt and the Emerson and Belcea Quartets help make up an irresistible musical programme. We stay at a beautiful quiet spa hotel in the mountains.
Waiting List Only .
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9 - 15 September 2017
The Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra in the Eszterhazy Palace.
We visit Haydn’s birthplace, a concert in the summer palace and a visit to Bratislava.
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28 January – 5 February 2018
The intelligent Ring production by Willy Decker was the focus of our successful visit when Fabio Luisi was in his honeymoon period with the Sächsische Staatskapelle and the Semperoper Dresden. We returned for the next cycle when Mr Luisi made an abrupt departure. Now it returns for two cycles with their chief conductor, the superb Wagnerian Christian Thielemann. All tickets were snapped up in 24 hours but we have succeeded in acquiring a small number for the second cycle.
Petra Lang sings Brünnhilde, Albert Dohmen - Alberich, Christa Mayer - Fricka, Erda and Waltraute, Kurt Streit is Loge, Gerhard Siegel - Mime and Andreas Schager - Siegfried.
We will have time to explore the treasures of Dresden and spend a whole day in Leipzig. Our full programme has yet to be decided but we would ask you to reserve a place on what is certain to be a popular tour.
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8 – 12 March 2018
Recitals, masterclasses and talks at the RNCM. The theme for this year is links between Paris and Manchester. Chance to explore the first city of the Industrial Revolution and its fine art collections.
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29 March - 3 April 2018
Daniel Barenboin started the Easter Festtage with the Berlin Staatsoper in 2006. The Staatsoper on Unter den Linden reopens this autumn after a prolonged renovation and the traditional performance of Parsifal is joined by a new production of Falstaff.
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If you decide you must join me on both the Dresden and Berlin trips – the two best Wagner conductors of our day with probably the two best Wagner orchestras (whose members form most of the Bayreuth orchestra each summer) - we are offering a special “German Package” with a £300 discount per person for both tours booked at the same time.
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The 2017 brochure is available as a pdf file, please click here to download the brochure.
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Robert Avery, who accompanies all these tours, founded Habsburg Heritage Cultural Tours in 1989. He read Modern History at Cambridge and then devoted twenty years to the Anglo-Austrian Society, pioneering cultural tours and helping to run the Youth and Music Festival in
Vienna. He was editorial consultant to the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Vienna and was awarded the Silver Haydn Medal of the City of Eisenstadt. When not leading tours he can usually be found at the opera.
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