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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 2019
14 – 18 March 2019
The first festival at the RNCM in 1999 was devoted to all Haydn’s string quartets. Now we return with evening recitals by Quatuor Mosaiques, Trio Wanderer and the Heath Quartet. Among the highlights are a masterclass with Erich Höbarth, lecture recital with Simon Rowland-Jones, a 2012 film In Search of Haydn and the Seven Last Words played by seven different student quartets. We also have a Hallé concert at the Bridgwater Hall.
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17 – 23 April 2019
Wagner’s first and last successes – RIENZI and PARSIFAL - in iconic productions at the Deutsche Oper; an acclaimed MEISTERSINGER with veteran great Wagnerians joining Wolfgang Koch as Hans Sachs, and a new BETROTHAL IN A MONASTERY, Prokofiev’s lyrical comic opera with Violeta Urmana, both at the reopened Staatsoper unter den Linden under Daniel Barenboim.
As if that is not enough, Anna Netrebko sings Verdi arias in the Philharmonie with Barenboim and the Staatskapelle; and at the Komische Oper, Harry Kupfer directs Handels’s PORO, RE D’ITALIE. Of course we also view the art and architecture of Berlin with the city’s best guide Tom Abbott.
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1 - 7 May 2019
All the Beethoven piano concertos are a highlight of the concert by András Schiff and friends in the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. Palladio and Veronese in Venice and the Veneto with memorable meals make for an unforgettable experience.
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12 – 17 June 2019
The relaunched Ring with the best acoustics in Europe (David Nice - December 2017). Bayreuth singers include our own Catherine Foster – seven years Bayreuth’s Brünnhilde. Ádám Fischer conducts and a boat brings us from and back to our idyllic spa hotel on the Margaret Island.
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28 June - 6 July 2019
The great Canadian pianist and musical friends give recitals in idyllic Umbrian settings. We stay in a hotel
right on the lakeside (and this is where Tony Pappano has his holiday home!) and spend the last day on the
Piero della Francesca trail.
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23 August – 1 September 2019
Another bumper week of recitals (and we had to disappoint people this summer) – Ian Bostridge, Andrč Schuen, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Igor Levitt, Violet Urmana and the Jerusalem, Artemis and Schumann Quartets are among the highlights. Both of Schubert’s great song cycles are sung by the finest of the new generation of singers.
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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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