Tours 2010
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RNCM CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
6 - 11 January

THE RING in DRESDEN
9-18 March

THE RING in BERLIN
27 April – 3 May

VICENZA - Andras Schiff
29 April – 4 May

ITTINGEN - Andras Schiff and Heinz Holliger
21-25 May

SCHUBERTIADE AT SCHWARZENBERG 1
17-22 June

RETURN TO CARDIFF - Bryn Terfel & Simon Keenlyside
28 - 30 June

Bayreuth -fingers crossed
July

SCHUBERTIADE AT SCHWARZENBERG 2
1-6 September

EISENSTADT HAYDN FESTIVAL
9-15 September

CRACOW & INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL IN EASTERN SLOVAKIA
29 September – 6 October

SPECIAL OFFER : Dresden Ring tour (9-18 March) £100 pp discount if another 2010 tour                              booked – not including Manchester or Cardiff


Tour Leaders

Robert Avery, who accompanies all these tours (except Vicenza), 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.

 

Jennifer Anderson, who accompanies our Vicenza tour, was fifteen years headmistress of a London school. She taught French and Italian after Cambridge, has taken many tours to different parts of Italy and leads Dante study courses at her home.

Lionel Friend, who lectures on the Dresden Ring, has conducted opera, ballet and concerts in Europe, North America and Australia.  While in demand for modern works with a long list of first performances, his main interest is Wagner and he has conducted all the operas and taught and coached most leading roles.

Richard Wigmore, who gives talks at Vicenza and the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival, is a writer and broadcaster on musical performance of the classical period. He will introduce the concerts. He read French and German at Cambridge and and gives classes in the history of the Lied at Birkbeck College, London University. His translations of all the Schubert songs were used in the recent Hyperion complete recordings. He has written a well received book on Haydn's life and work (Faber 2009).

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