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OPERA IN NEW YORK JANUARY 9-18, 2019 TOUR LEADER: LINDY MONTGOMERY Sonya Yoncheva Anna Netrebko Yannick Nézet-Séguin Clémentine Margaine Anita Rachvelishvili Gustavo Dudamel

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OPERA IN NEW YORK JANUARY 9-18, 2019 TOUR LEADER: LINDY MONTGOMERY

Sonya Yoncheva

Anna Netrebko Yannick Nézet-Séguin Clémentine Margaine

Anita Rachvelishvili Gustavo Dudamel

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Overview It’s cold outside, but the singing is hot! Take 10 days out of the Australian summer to enjoy singing, orchestral music and stage production of the highest calibre on our Opera in New York tour. Academy Travel is delighted to offer lovers of vocal music a 10-day program that includes five performances at the Met and a concert by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. We’ve secured seats for all performances in the Grand Tier, in our view the best seats in the theatre for acoustics and sight-lines. The performance program is complemented by visits to a select range of small galleries and museums, background talks and plenty of time to relax and enjoy New York. Tour leader Lindy Montgomery will provide both background talks on the performances and expert information on some of the galleries and museums we visit. Accommodation is in spacious Premier Plus rooms at the Warwick Hotel in midtown New York. The Warwick is close to restaurants, cafes and a number of museums and historical sites. Academy Travel has conducted long-stay tours to New York since 2007. We have a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of most of the cultural attractions of the city.

Your tour leader Lindy Montgomery is a music educator and performer with over twenty five years’ of experience in her field. She has been involved in a number of tours throughout Europe and the United States and has led groups to Germany, Canada and the USA for Academy Travel. She has also toured widely throughout Australia, Europe and Asia as both a soloist and as a member of various choral groups.

Lindy holds a Bachelor of Music Education, majoring in piano from the Sydney

Conservatorium of Music as well as a Bachelor of Music (Hons), majoring in singing from the University of Sydney. She has taught all age groups, from primary music, through high school and including thirteen years in the Musicology Department of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, tutoring in Aural Perception, Solfège and Harmony. Lindy currently holds the position of Co-ordinator of Vocal Studies at Ascham School. As a soprano, Lindy has made many solo appearances with the Sydney Chamber Choir, The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, Cantillation and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. She is also a regular performer with smaller ensembles such as The Marais Project, Synergy Percussion and Halcyon. “Lindy was a superb, knowledgeable and enthusiastic leader.” – Participant on our Montreal to New York: fine music in historic cities tour, April 2017.

OPERA IN NEW YORK

Tour dates: January 9-18, 2019

Tour leader: Lindy Montgomery

Tour Price: $7,950 per person, twin share

Single Supplement: $2,300 for sole use of double room

Booking deposit: $500 per person

Recommended airline: Qantas

Maximum places: 20

Itinerary: New York, 9 nights, with 6 performances at the Metropolitan Opera

Date published: May 17, 2018

Enquiries and bookings

For further information and to secure a place on this tour please contact Hannah Kleboe at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email [email protected]

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Six outstanding Performances

OTELLO Verdi’s penultimate opera Otello is considered by many to be his masterpiece. His ‘mature’ style is a perfect vehicle for exploring the complex emotions that govern the principal characters. The cast is outstanding, led by Stuart Skelton, opposite the remarkable Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona and the equally talented Željko Lučić as Iago. Star Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel makes his Met debut.

ADRIANA LECOUVREUR Cilea’s verismo drama, telling the tale of a feted singer, her tangled romantic life and a bunch of poisoned violets, could have been written for its star, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Sir David McVicar’s well-regarded production premiered at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Ms Netrebko is supported by two outstanding co-principals, Piotr Beczała as her lover and Anita Rachvelishvili as her rival.

AIDA Horses, wagons, two brass choirs, hundreds on stage – there’s nothing bigger or better than the Met’s Aida! Met favourite Sondra Radvanovsky is in the title role.

CARMEN The energetic Met production stars French singers Clémentine Margaine, a rising star, and Roberto Alagna.

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE Debussy’s only opera premiered in 1902, but it is only in recent years that the landmark status of Pelléas et Mélisande has been recognised, with performances all over the world, including Australia. Incoming Met music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a fine international cast and is sure to bring the ravishing orchestral score to life.

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA This orchestra has an illustrious history. Founded in 1842, it has premiered masterpieces such as Dvorak’s New World Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Music Directors have included Mahler, Toscanini, Stokowski and of course Leonard Bernstein. Our concert features works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov.

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Detailed itinerary Included meals are shown with the symbols B, L and D.

Wednesday 9 January Arrive New York

Meet your tour leader and fellow tour participants over welcome drinks and finger food in our hotel.

Thursday 10 January Midtown and Verdi

This morning a specialist architectural guide shows us some of the remarkable 20th century architecture of Midtown Manhattan. We survey ‘Beaux Arts’ style buildings such as Grand Central, Art Deco skyscrapers and sleek ‘mid-century modern’ buildings. After a welcome lunch, Belinda Montgomery guides us through tonight’s performance at the Lincoln Center. Verid’s Otello features soprano Sonya Yoncheva, who emerged just a few years ago and is now one of the most in-demand divas in the world. Australian tenor Stuart Skelton is an experienced exponent of the title role, while charismatic Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel conducts. (B, L)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Verdi, Otello Performers: Stuart Skelton (Otello), Sonya Yoncheva (Desdemona), Željko Lučić (Iago)

Friday 11 January Frick Collection – Rockefeller Center

This morning we visit the former Fifth Avenue home of ‘robber baron’ Henry Clay Frick. Set on an entire block, this elegant home has been a museum since shortly after Frick’s death in 1913. It contains a superb collection of Renaissance to 18th-century European art, accompanied by exquisite furniture and decorative arts. This afternoon we visit the Rockefeller Center, completed in the Great Depression and a supreme example of New York skyscraper architecture. This evening is free, but there are plenty of performance options available, including a Broadway play or musical, the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall. (B)

Above: The iconic Art Deco Chrysler building is just one of dozens of remarkable 20th and 21st century buildings on Manhattan Below: Australian Stuart Skelton as Verdi’s Otello. Skelton is one of the world’s leading heroic tenors and regularly performs in the leading theatres of Europe and the United States

Tour start & finish time

The tour starts on Wednesday 9 January at the Warwick Hotel, New York, at 6.00pm. The tour ends on Friday 18 January at the Warwick Hotel, New York, at 11.30am.

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Above: Polish tenor Piotr Beczala thrives in challenging roles such as Eugene Onegin and Cilea’s hopelessly conflicted Maurice in Adriana Lecouvreur Below: Gustav Klimt’s celebrated portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer is the centrepiece of the Neue Galerie, but it is just one of several world-class works in this delightful small museum

Saturday 12 January Art and Design and a Met Matinee

After a talk on Adriana Lecouvreur we depart the hotel on foot, calling in first at the Museum of Art and Design, overlooking Central Park on Columbus Circle. The Museum hosts constantly-changing exhibitions of decorative arts and design from around the world. We continue the short distance to the Lincoln Center, and our matinee performance. Seeing the great Russian diva Anna Netrebko live will surely be a highlight for many tour participants. (B)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur Performers: Anna Netrebko (Adriana), Piotr Beczala (Maurice), Anita Rachvelishvili (The Princess), Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Sunday 13 January Neue Galerie, Central Park

The Neue Galerie, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, was established by the art dealer Serge Sabarsky and the art-loving entrepreneur Ronald S Lauder. The collection focuses on early 20th-century painting and decorative arts from Vienna, and its centrepiece is Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer, subject of the recent film, The Woman in Gold. Our before-hours tour will also include a visiting exhibition of early 20th-century art (the Neue regularly holds exhibitions of the highest calibre). This afternoon, if the weather is good, we stroll through Central Park, once dubbed ‘the largest work of art in New York’, for the remarkable landscaping by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. Along the way we learn a little of the park’s history and design. Alternatively, you might like to catch a Sunday matinee performance at Carnegie Hall or a Broadway theatre. (B)

Monday 14 January The Met Museum and Verdi

This morning has been set aside to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose 54 departments contain paintings, decorative arts and artefacts from all corners of the globe, covering more than 3,000 years of human history. Rather than trying to cover the whole collection, our visit will focus on one or two departments and a selection of the special exhibitions that are showing. We may also call in at the Met’s new campus on Madison Avenue, the Met Breuer. After lunch at the Museum, Belinda. In the afternoon there is a pre-performance talk on Verdi’s much-loved Aida, a mix of scenic grandeur and intimate emotions. Before the performance we will share a light dinner. (B, D)

Performance Details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Verdi, Aida Performers: Sondra Radvanovsky (Aida), Yonghoon Lee (Radames), Dolora Zajick (Amneris), Roberto Frontali (Amonasro), Nicola Luisotti (conductor)

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Tuesday 15 January Guggenheim and Debussy

In the mid-morning there is a background talk on Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. As the work and the musical style will be unfamiliar, Belinda Montgomery’s careful analysis will add greatly to your understanding and enjoyment. In the afternoon we head to the Guggenheim Museum on the Upper East Side. Housed in Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic spiral-shaped building on Fifth Avenue, the Guggenheim has both an excellent permanent collection and large-scale visiting exhibitions of modern art. This evening we return to the Lincoln Center for our performance. (B)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande Performers: Isobel Leonard (Mélisande), Paul Appleby (Pelléas), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

Wednesday 16 January JP Morgan Library – New York Philharmonic

Late this morning we visit the magnificent collection of the JP Morgan Library. In 1903 banker JP Morgan commissioned Gilded Age architect Stanford White to design a Renaissance-style pavilion to hold his precious literary collection. Spending the equivalent of $900 million in today’s terms, Morgan acquired an unrivalled collection, ranging from ancient Mesopotamian tablets to illustrated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, some of the first and rarest printed books, music manuscripts and important documents of American history. The collection has expanded beyond the original pavilion and now incorporates a Renzo Piano-designed atrium and nearby buildings. After lunch in the Morgan restaurant, Belinda introduces tonight’s concert, featuring works from the very beginning and the very end of the Romantic Style. Renowned Israeli pianist Yefim Bronfman is joined by incoming chief conductor Jap Van Zweden. (B, L)

Performance details Venue: David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center Program: Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninov, Symphony No.2 Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Yefim Bronfman (pictured left), Jap Van Zweden

Thursday 17 January MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art, located a few steps from our hotel, contains a collection of European and American art from the 1880s to the present day and has had an immense influence on our understandings of modern art. A museum lecturer takes us through the highlights of the permanent collection in the hour before MoMA opens its doors to the public. After our tour the remainder of the day is free to enjoy the museum. This evening we make our final journey to the Lincoln Center. After our farewell dinner at the Grand Tier restaurant, we attend the the

Above: The swirling organic lines of Frank Lloyd Wright’s last masterpiece, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, are a striking contrast to the verticality of Manhattan’s skyscrapers Below: The sumptuous Morgan Library, home to countless precious manuscripts, spanning millennia of human history; and pianist Yefim Bronfman in action

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powerful Richard Eyre production of Carmen, a Met favourite since its 2009 premiere. An excellent international cast of mainly young singers guarantees a satisfying final evening. (B, D)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Bizet, Carmen Performers: Clémentine Margaine (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Aleksandra Kurzak (Michaëla), Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo), Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

Friday 18 January Departure

The morning is free to relax or undertake last minute sightseeing. In the mid-afternoon there is a transfer to John F Kennedy airport for those returning to Australia.

The Warwick Hotel Our four-star hotel is very conveniently located in midtown Manhattan, on 54th Street. We have booked Premier Plus rooms. These are large and comfortable, each with modern amenities. The hotel is in walking distance of many of New York’s most popular attractions. The hotel has recently completed a major renovation. The Warwick has an interesting history. It was built in 1926 for newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, primarily as a residence for his Hollywood friends, among whom was his mistress Marion Davies. Over the years guests have included James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley and The Beatles. Actor Cary Grant lived in the Warwick for 12 years. www.warwickhotelny.com

Above: An Academy Travel private viewing of MoMA; and French tenor Roberto Alagna practising his smouldering gaze Below: The Grand Tier restaurant within the Metropolitan Opera

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Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center

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Tour Price The tour price is $7,950 per person, twin share (land content only). The supplement for a single room is $2,300 per person. A non-refundable deposit of $500 per person is required to secure a place on the tour.

Tour Inclusions Included in the tour price Nine nights’ accommodation in premier plus rooms at

the Warwick Hotel in midtown Manhattan All breakfasts, and selected lunches and dinners in

hotels and local restaurants Land travel by air-conditioned coach or taxi as required Grand Tier Prime seats to six performances at the

Metropolitan Opera Background notes and background talks Services of Academy Travel expert tour leader

throughout tour All entrance fees to sites mentioned on itinerary Expert local guides at selected sites Tips for all services stated as included in the itinerary

Not included International airfares, taxes and surcharges (see below) Travel insurance Meals not mentioned in itinerary Expenses of a personal nature

Air travel OPTIONS The tour price quoted is for land content only. For this tour we recommend Qantas or United who have regular flights to New York. Please contact us for further information on Economy, Business and First Class airfares. Taxi transfers between airport and hotel are included for all passengers booking their flights through Academy Travel. These may be group or individual transfers.

Enquiries & bookings For further information and to secure a place on this tour please contact Hannah Kleboe at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email [email protected]

Weather on Tour Expect cold days, around 2-7 degrees. Days will be mainly overcast, with the possibility of light snow or rain, but also some sunny days. You need to be well prepared with a warm overcoat, gloves, scarf and a hat, a good pair of shoes or boots and an umbrella.

Fitness Requirements of THIS tour

GRADE ONE

It is important both for you and for your fellow travellers that you are fit enough to be able to enjoy all the activities on this tour. To give you an indication of the level of physical fitness required to participate on our tours, we have given them a star grading. Academy Travel’s tours tend to feature extended walking tours and site visits, which require greater fitness than coach touring. We ask you instead to consider carefully your ability to meet the physical demands of the tour.

Participation criteria for this tour

This Grade One tour is appropriate for travellers in good health with good mobility. You should be able to comfortably participate in up to three hours of physical activity per day on most days, including walking at an easy pace, sometimes on uneven terrain, climbing stairs and standing in galleries. You should be able to: keep up with the group at all times walk for 2-3 kilometres at a moderate to slow pace with

only short breaks stand for a reasonable length of time in galleries and

museums negotiate stairs and bridges get on and off a coach, ferry or boat with steep stairs

unassisted move your luggage a short distance if required

A note for older travellers

If you are more than 80 years old, or have restricted mobility, it is likely that you will find this itinerary challenging. You may have to miss certain activities and may not get the full value of the tour. Before submitting your booking form, please contact Academy Travel to discuss your situation and the exact physical requirements of this tour. While we will do our best to reasonably accommodate the physical needs of all group members, we reserve the right to refuse bookings if we feel that the requirements of the tour are too demanding for you and/or if local conditions mean we cannot reasonably accommodate your condition.

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About Academy TravelEach year Academy Travel organises around 60 journeys to Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas, each focusing on a distinctive historical, artistic or cultural theme. The aim of every Academy Travel journey is to combine the pleasures of independent travel with the benefits and shared enjoyment of a group. Academy Travel is an Australian-owned travel company, founded in 2004. The company’s staff includes both academic experts and travel professionals with over two decades’ industry experience. We also have our own office in Rome which organises our tours in Western Europe. This means we have direct control over the selection of hotels, restaurants, coaches and local guides, guaranteeing superior quality.

Years of experienceAcademy Travel was founded in 2004 by a team with decades of prior experience in small group travel. On average, our tour leaders have over 11 years’ experience, some with 25 or more years. To ensure quality, we have our own office in Rome, Italy and a network of trusted suppliers around the world.

Great itinerariesAcademy Travel works hard to create itineraries that provide a balanced experience – walking tours, museum and gallery visits, live performances, city and countryside. We’re proud to be constantly innovating, from opening up new destinations, creating tours around festivals and special exhibitions, to providing unrivalled depth in our residential tours.

Like-minded groupsOver the years we’ve been in operation, we’ve developed a loyal band of Academy Travellers, some of whom have travelled with us more than 10 times. They say the small groups (maximum 20, average 17) and distinct themes of our tours attract like-minded travellers and create a relaxed, convivial atmosphere.

Long staysFeedback from our clients consistently tells us that creating itineraries with three and four-night stops, or even longer, is far more appealing that rushing from place to place. Wherever possible, we plan our tours around a limited number of stops, making your travels more relaxed and more meaningful.

Special EventsA private viewing of the Sistine Chapel? Tickets to a sold-out concert by the Berlin Philharmonic? A world-famous art fair? Access to private homes and gardens? Behind-the-scenes visits? Many of our tours feature access to places and events that are usually not offered on most group tours.

Expert tour leadersWe work closely with a team of academically qualified and highly experienced tour leaders. They don’t just ‘rattle off the facts’ – they help us plan our itineraries and, on tour, freely share their deep knowledge and genuine passion. Most of our tour leaders are still teaching at an advanced level and many are still undertaking academic research.

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