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Villa in Tuscany.

Late summer Italian charm and style in beautiful places!

La Traviata and Il Trovatore by Verdi at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. It is not hard to imagine 18th century Casanova and company masked and cloaked gliding to the opera in a gondola! The Barber of Seville by Rossini in a Venetian Palazzo on the Grand Canal and Vivaldi’s music in his own city in a Concert by baroque specialists. How exciting, as are visits to places of music and opera interest.

A truly unique experience and favourite place for Patricia’s Opera Tours is our 18th century villa in Tuscany perfectly set amidst vines and olive groves. After a week of masterclasses and study in the Villa with Maestro Wyn Davies, Dame Malvina Major’s young artists will entertain us in a Gala Concert on 1 or 2 October in the grand chandeliered Salone. We explore exclusive Tuscan gardens and villas, vineyards and villages. Invite your friends to attend the Concert.

Parma, a rich and charming provincial city and a great favourite with Patricia’s Opera Tours, is home of Parma ham, Parmesan cheese and top cuisine, and the heart of Verdi country.

The Verdi Festival opera season entices us with the early Verdi opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata in the stunning Teatro Regio.

We visit the Maestro’s birthplace and villa where he composed his great works. Famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti’s home and museum in Modena awaits us. Our young singers will perform in Guastalla near Parma.

Charming Lucca and Puccini’s life and times completes our Italy adventure.

THIS IS AN OPTIONAL EXTRA 6/8 October.

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WHEN

23 September - 6 or 8 October 2020

Meet in Venice and end in Parma 6 October or Lucca 8 October
COST

Upon request. Airfares not included
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
6 - 15 people

Greek Theatre, Mt Etna.

Romantic land of legend and hub of the Mediterranean. Follow the traces of Greek, Roman, Arabic, Norman, French and Spanish invaders over 2000 years as we cross the island tasting superb Sicilian wine and cuisine and visiting Siracusa, Piazza Armerina with its Roman mosaics, Agrigento’s Greek temples, Taormina’s Greek theatre with Mt Etna in the distance and much more.

Experience Sicilian country life with members of the Tasca family, producers of renowned Sicilian wine with optional classes at the famed Anna Tasca Lanza’s cooking school.

Our operas are Manon Lescaut by Puccini in Teatro Massimo, Palermo, and The Elixir of Love by Donizetti in Teatro Massimo Bellini , Catania.

Be seduced by Sicily!

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WHEN

15 - 26 October 2020

Meet in Palermo and end in Taormina
COST

Upon request.
Airfares not included.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
6 - 15 people
 

Customised Tours

Sphinx, Aida, Verona

Patricia knows her way around the opera houses of Europe and can get your tickets and book your hotels.  She can design your own tour and give many helpful suggestions drawing on her expertise of many years travel.

Happy individual travellers recently visited Verona, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Prague.

What about Verona? You must go to this famous opera festival at least once in your life!

Verona 2020 Festival

Spectacular well-loved operas under the stars in the great Arena of Verona, the biggest open air theatre in the world where magnificentoperas have taken place since 1913. Explore this elegant city where Maria Callas made her Italy debut.

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WHEN

Choose your dates between 13 June and 5 September 2020
COST

Upon request.
Contact Patricia for more information.