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Opera and Cuisine with Fred Plotkin: A Feast for the Senses
An incredible operatic experience: an exclusive opera trip with
Fred
Plotkin,
the most renowned opera expert in North America and author of the most
authoritative book on Italian cuisine! In addition to experiencing and
understanding opera with your own personal expert, you will also be part
of a fine culinary experience, with restaurants and wines personally chosen by Fred.
United States
Fred Plotkin featured in Opera News, January 2008 issue.
Join Fred Plotkin
for a once-in-a-lifetime opera tour to New York's Metropolitan Opera, where stars such as
Renée Fleming,
Patricia Racette, Deborah Voigt, Johan Botha, Anthony Dean Griffey and Ben Heppner
align for four
unforgettable performances of Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten);
Otello (Giuseppe Verdi), Tristan und Isolde (Richard Wagner) and King Authur (Henry Purcell).
4 nights — March 7 - 11, 2008 2008
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Fred Plotkin featured in Opera News, January 2008 issue.
Join Fred Plotkin in
May for the closing week of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with a Met opera tour!
See two new, much anticipated productions of Shakespeare's
Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi) and
Donizetti's brilliantly funny La Fille du Regiment, as well as Mozart's last
opera, La Clemenza di Tito. Finally, returning to the Met for three
performances only is The First Emperor, commissioned
for Placido Domingo by composer Tan Dun. It was entirely sold out
last season and this is a rare opportunity
to hear a new work with the world's most admired tenor.
4 nights — May 13 - 17, 2008
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Europe
Munich and Verona: Pleasures of the Old World
Detailed itinerary and prices coming soon.
Join Fred Plotkin
at Munich's Bavarian State Opera for the Munich Opera
Festival, which will feature such treasures as:
Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte, Strauss's Salome, and a
gala concert led by Kent Nagano.
From there move to the opera festival in Verona's outdoor Roman
amphitheater. Tickets to these operas are hard to come by—do not
miss your chance to experience this once-in-a-lifetime European opera tour!
10 nights — Not offered in 2008.
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Parma and Lucca: In the Footsteps of Verdi and Puccini
Detailed itinerary and prices coming soon.
Join Fred Plotkin for an
Italian opera tour honoring
the births of Verdi and Puccini. The tour will include a visit of Parma's annual opera
festival in mid-October and a performance of Puccini's rarely-staged La Rondine
at the intimate Teatro del Giglio in Lucca.
Specific dates to be determined — Not offered in 2008.
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Cooking Vacations 
The Metropolitan Opera: The Stars Align in Four Masterpieces.
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