OPERA IN NEW YORK APRIL 2-14, 2021 TOUR LEADER: CLIVE PAGET

JOYCE DIDONATO

YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN

OKSANA DYKA

SONYA YONCHEVA

PIOTR BECZALA

JAKUB HRŮŠA

Overview Sonya Yoncheva, Joyce di Donato, Piotr Beczala, Oksana Dyka and more – April 2021 sees a star-studded line up of performers at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, unrivalled by any other opera company anywhere in the world in the 2020-21 season. Academy Travel is delighted to offer lovers of vocal music a 13-day program that includes six outstanding performances at the Met, as well as a performance at the world-famous Carnegie Hall. We’ve secured seats for all performances in the Metropolitan Opera’s Grand Tier, in our view the best seats in the theatre for acoustics and sightlines. The performance program is complemented by visits to a select range of small galleries and museums around the city, background talks on the performances, and plenty of time to relax and enjoy New York during your tour. Tour leader Clive Paget will provide the background talks and expert insight into the cultural life of New York. This tour also employs local expert guidance at some of the best galleries and attractions that New York has to offer. Academy Travel has conducted long-stay tours to New York since 2007. We have a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the key cultural attractions of the city, and we’ve specially curated a program designed to show you the best of the city by day and by night. 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.

Your tour leader Clive Paget is a New York-based arts writer and critic and is currently Editor at Large for Australia’s Limelight magazine. He began his 25-year arts career as an opera and musical theatre singer in London before moving into directing and dramaturgy. Relocating to Sydney, he transitioned into classical music retail before moving into arts journalism. His knowledge of music and music

history is encyclopaedic, with a special passion for the ways in which music has always been linked to parallel socio-political and artistic movements.

Clive’s academic career started with a BSc from Imperial College in London where he first began to develop his passion for classical music. As a co-founder of influential new music powerhouse, The Bridewell Theatre, his directing credits included the 1997 world premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s first professional musical, Saturday Night, as well, as important premieres by composers like Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown and Michael John LaChiusa. In 2002, he moved to London’s National Theatre as Sir Nicholas Hytner’s music theatre consultant, a role he fulfilled for five years initiating new projects and bringing together contemporary arts practitioners from Jonathan Dove to Damon Albarn and Akram Khan.

OPERA IN NEW YORK Tour dates: April 2-14, 2021

Tour leader: Clive Paget

Tour Price: $11,140 per person, twin share

Single Supplement: $2,640 for sole use of double room

Booking deposit: $4,500 per person

Recommended airline: Qantas

Maximum places: 20

Itinerary: New York (11 nights), with 6 performances at the Metropolitan Opera and a concert at Carnegie Hall

Date published: May 13, 2020

Enquiries and bookings

For further information and to secure a place on this tour please contact Lynsey Jenkins at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email info@academytravel.com.au

DVORAK’S RUSALKA

A dream team delivers this thrilling score, including Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala and

Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša in his Met debut.

Six Performances at the met

GOUNOD’S ROMÉO ET JULIETTE Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim star in this classic

combination of grand French opera and

Shakespearean drama.

VERDI’S NABUCCO

Oksana Dyka leads this much anticipated return of Verdi’s

early career hit.

MOZART’S

DON GIOVANNI Tony Award-winning Ivo van

Hove makes his Met debut with a new production of Mozart’s

dark ‘drama giocosa’.

HEGGIE’S DEAD MAN WALKING

One of the most successful contemporary operas, Jake

Heggie’s masterpiece makes it Met debut with Joyce di Donato

and Latonia Moore

PUCCINI’S LA BOHÈME

Franco Zeffirelli’s remarkable Met production is an undisputed classic of the modern operatic

stage, starring Angel Blue as Mimi.

Act II of Puccini's "La Bohème"

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

Friday April 2 Arrive New York

Meet your tour leader and fellow tour participants over welcome drinks and finger food in our hotel, and have an introductory talk on the upcoming performances and New York’s cultural landscape.

Saturday April 3 Midtown – Don Giovanni

This morning we start with a guided tour of the historical and architectural landmarks of New York’s Midtown district, starting at the incredible Art Deco masterpiece, the Rockefeller Center, then continuing on to other architectural highlights such as Lever House, the Seagram Building, St Patrick’s Cathedral, the General Electric Building and grand stores of 5th Avenue. After a welcome lunch, Clive guides us through tonight’s opera, Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Based on the legendary story of Don Juan, this classic of the Mozart canon blends the light-hearted comic opera with a work that is serious and introspective. Considered one the of the greatest operas, this new production by Tony-award winning director Ivo van Hove is an exciting new take and a perfect start to our operatic line-up. (B, L)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Mozart, Don Giovanni Performers: Ailyn Pérez (Donna Anna), Isabel Leonard (Donna Elvira), Hera Hyesang Park (Zerlina), Ben Bliss (Don Ottavio), Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

Sunday April 4 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 an excellent visiting exhibition of early 20th-century art. This afternoon 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

Tour start & finish time

The tour begins at 6.00pm on Friday March 6, 2020, at the Warwick Hotel New York.

The tour ends after breakfast on Tuesday March 17, 2020, at the Warwick Hotel.

Above: a production image of the Metropolitan Opera’s Don Giovanni Below: Gustav Klimt’s celebrated portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, “The Woman in Gold” and centrepiece of the Neue Galerie

Olmsted. Alternatively, you might like to catch a Sunday matinee performance at Carnegie Hall or a Broadway theatre. (B)

Monday April 5 Downtown – Nabucco

This morning Clive provides an analysis of Verdi’s early-career opera, for which Verdi himself remarked "this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that Nabucco was born under a lucky star". The remainder of the day is free to explore as you wish, or to take an optional guided visit with your tour leader to New York’s Downtown, to see the World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial, Trinity Church, Woolworth Building, Wall Street and the Financial District. Elijah Moshinsky’s production of Nabucco is a sumptuous revival of this seminal Verdi work, inspired by the Jewish scriptures and taking place amidst the destruction of the first temple of Jerusalem. Oksana Dyka takes the lead in this production, a singer who has been receiving excellent reviews for her recent performances, with an impressive cast of supporting baritones and basses to deliver this stirring early masterpiece. (B)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Verdi, Nabucco Performers: Oksana Dyka (Abigaille), George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Fenena) Najmiddin Mavlyanov (Ismaele), Marco Armiliato (conductor)

Tuesday April 6 JP Morgan Library – Rusalka

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. After lunch in the Morgan restaurant, you’ll have the option to visit some other landmarks of Lower Midtown, including the Chrysler Building and Grand Central Station with your tour manager. In the early evening Clive does an introductory lecture to tonight’s much-anticipated performance of Rusalka. Exquisite Sonya Yoncheva stars as the water sprite who yearns to become human in order to find love—singing the sublime Song to the Moon in the process. This production by Mary Zimmerman excellently pairs Yoncheva with Piotr Beczała, conducted by Jakub Hrůša in his Metropolitan Opera debut. (B, L)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Dvořák, Rusalka

Above: a production image of the Metropolitan Opera’s Nabucco Below: the extraordinary interior of the JP Morgan library

Performers: Sonya Yoncheva (Rusalka), Piotr Beczała (Prince), Eric Owens (Water Gnome) Ekaterina Gubanova (Foreign Princess), Jakub Hrůša (conductor)

Wednesday April 7 Chelsea and the High Line – Carnegie Hall

This morning we explore the fashionable Chelsea district, once an industrial area, but today teeming with art galleries, exclusive apartment buildings and the High Line, a former overhead industrial rail line turned into a remarkable public park. There will be time to visit the Whitney Museum of American Art, housed in a Renzo Piano building, and stroll the High Line from 15th to 30th streets. Tonight we break from the opera and visit the world-famous Carnegie Hall for a concert with iconic German singer and actress Ute Lemper. Accompanied by an instrumental ensemble, Lemper’s Songs for Eternity provide an inspiring, defiant and life-affirming repertoire sung in Yiddish, as part of Carnegie Hall’s series Voices of Hope. (B)

Performance details Venue: Carnegie Hall Program: Songs for Eternity Performers: Ute Lemper

Thursday April 8 Day at leisure – Dead Man Walking

At our tour’s midpoint we offer a day to take a breather and enjoy New York your own way, or simply relax. Your tour manager will be able to provide suggestions and coordinate additional touring options, restaurant suggestions, or places simply to enjoy the ambiance of New York. In the hotel in the evening, Clive takes us through Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking in preparation for tonight’s performance. One of the most successful contemporary operas, this modern classic is also being staged by the daring Ivo van Hove this season. The incredible Joyce DiDonato stars as Sister Helen Prejean, with the opera based on her memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, in a performance that is sure to be provoking and inspiring in equal measure. (B)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Heggie, Dead Man Walking Performers: Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Latonia Moore (Sister Rose), Etienne Dupuis (Joseph de Rocher), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

Friday April 9 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 understanding 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

Above: the legendary Carnegie Hall Below: Yannick Nézet-Séguin becomes the third Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York

remainder of the day is free to enjoy the museum. We celebrate our visit with lunch at The Modern, the Michelin two-star restaurant within the museum. (B, L)

Saturday April 10 The Frick Collection – Romeo et Juliette

This morning we visit the Frick Collection in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. More than any other small museum, The Frick epitomises the wealth and refinement of America’s super-wealthy in the golden age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pittsburgh coal and steel baron Henry Clay Frick was a complex man – ruthless in business yet with impeccable taste in painting and decorative arts. European masterpieces from the Renaissance to the 19th century vie for our attention with superlative decorative arts and will be housed in the Met Breuer gallery space while the Frick Mansion undergoes renovation in 2021. The rest of the day is free. In the evening Clive takes us through the Gounod classic Roméo et Juliette before returning to the Met Opera to see radiant soprano Nadine Sierra make her Met role debut as the effervescent Juliette, opposite tenor Benjamin Bernheim, in his highly anticipated Met debut, as the ardent Roméo. Combined with the dramatic new staging by Bartlett Sher, this promises to be one of the star pairings of the season. (B)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Gounod, Roméo et Juliette Performers: Nadine Sierra (Juliette), Benjamin Bernheim (Roméo), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

Sunday April 11 Sunday in Brooklyn

Although it lies just across the East River, Brooklyn was for centuries an independent city and it still maintains a distinctive identity. We escape Manhattan today, spending the morning exploring the historic precincts of Brooklyn Heights and Park Slopes and, weather permitting, taking a stroll in Prospect Park. We then head to DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) for lunch in a local restaurant. In the afternoon we’ll visit the excellent but sometimes overlooked Brooklyn Museum, one of the more innovative art collections in the city, before heading home, with the option to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. (B, L)

Monday April 12 The Metropolitan Museum

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 begin at The Cloisters, the Met’s extraordinary medieval collection, housed in a monastery-like building on the

Above: a production image of the Metropolitan Opera’s Roméo et Juliette Below: walking over the Brooklyn Bridge

northern tip of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River. After driving back through Harlem, we spend the rest of the day at the main campus on Fifth Avenue. The evening is free. (B)

Tuesday April 13 Day at leisure – La Bohème

This morning Clive gives his final lecture, while the remainder of the day is free to relax or undertake individual sightseeing, as well as to fit in any last-minute shopping. This evening we enjoy a farewell dinner at the Metropolitan Opera’s famous Grand Tier restaurant. The tour closes with Puccini’s La Bohème, in Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic and much-loved staging of the world’s most popular opera. A staple of the Metropolitan Opera’s season, this grand and sumptuous production should provide a fitting reminder of just why the Metropolitan Opera is regarded by many as the world’s greatest house. (B, D)

Performance details Venue: Metropolitan Opera Program: Puccini, La Bohème Performers: Angel Blue (Mimi), Matthew Polenzani (Rodolfo), Gabrielle Reyes (Musetta), Russell Braun (Marcello), Marco Armiliato (conductor)

Tuesday April 14 Departure

Our tour ends this morning, and departures will be organized throughout the day for those going onto to other destinations or returning to Australia. (B)

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.

warwickhotels.com/new-york/

visa requirements In order to enter the United States all travellers are now required to complete an online form, the US government’s Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (or ESTA). Full details are available at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov. In making the application you will need details of your arriving flight to the USA and also need to provide the name and address of the hotel we are staying at:

The Warwick Hotel 65 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019, USA Phone: +1 212-247-2700

The cost of the ESTA is currently USD $14 and you should receive an authorisation within 48 hours. Print a copy of your

Above: a production image of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-20 La Bohème Below: the Metropolitan Opera’s famous Grand Tier restaurant

Tour Price The tour price is $11,140 per person, twin share (land content only). The supplement for a single room is $2,640 per person. A non-refundable deposit of $4,500 per person is required to secure a place on the tour. Please note, this deposit includes the cost to cover the tickets for the performance program. When the final performance program is released, you will have a 14-day period to withdraw from the tour with a full refund of all monies paid, if you do not find the range and standard of performances satisfactory.

Tour Inclusions

Included in the tour price 11 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 Best available ticket to a performance at Carnegie Hall Background notes and background talks Services of Academy Travel expert tour leader 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 air fares, taxes and surcharges (see below) Travel insurance Visa Costs Expenses of a personal nature

Air travel OPTIONS The tour price quoted is for land content only. For this tour we recommend Qantas, Delta or United Airlines, who offer direct regular flights to and from New York, with stopovers in either Los Angeles or Dallas Fort Worth. 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 Lynsey Jenkins at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email info@academytravel.com.au

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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.

Weather on Tour The weather in the New York in March is cool to mild. It is the beginning of spring, and the weather can be changeable but rarely extreme. Expect daytime temperatures to range between 10 and 15 degrees. Evenings may become cooler, requiring a warmer jacket and scarf. There is a possibility of some rainfall on a few days, so a weather-proof jacket and umbrella are recommended.

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