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Spring music................................2 Eastern Turkey.............................3 Morocco.......................................4 Walking & wine in Lebanon......5 Walking in Sicily.........................6 Leonardo da Vinci.......................7 Basilicata......................................8 The Heart of Italy........................8 Trasimeno Music Festival............9 Torre del Lago........................... 10 Lucca.......................................... 10 Opera at Aix.............................. 11 Recently launched...................... 11 Country House Opera...............12 Charles Dickens.........................12 West Country Gardens.............13 Salzburg Summer...................... 14 Klimt & Secessionist Vienna..... 14 Walking the Danube.................15 Hill Walking in Extremadura...15 The Schubertiade.......................15 India........................................... 16
The Ring in Budapest 11–18 June 2012 (my 287) 8 days • £2,530 (including the 4 opera tickets) Lecturer: Barry Millington Wagner’s Ring cycle with internationally acclaimed soloists and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Adam Fischer. The lecturer is Barry Millington, a leading Wagner authority and editor of The Wagner Journal. Wide ranging visits of Budapest, from Gothic to Art Nouveau and Bauhaus, led by a city guide.
The superb cast for this Ring includes some of the leading names on the world stage. Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde) has sung the role at the Metropolitan, New York, and has also been chosen by Daniel Barenboim to sing it in his productions at the Staatsoper Berlin and La Scala, Milan. Christian Franz, established for many years as one of the leading Wagnerian Heldentenors, unusually takes the dual roles of Siegmund and Siegfried. The Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo has emerged in recent years as one of the most authoritative exponents of the role of Wotan/Wanderer before the public today.
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Adam Fischer, who conducted the Ring at the Bayreuth Festival for several seasons, has turned this cycle in the Wagner Festival at Budapest into a major international attraction. The venue is the Bartók National Concert Hall, famed for its stateof-the-art acoustics, the jewel in the crown of the prizewinning Palace of Arts, home also to a Above: Budapest, 20th-cent. etching.