Music and Performing arts

Music & performing arts small group tours for mature travellers.

In small groups of 6 to 12 like minded people with specialist program leaders and expert guides, opera lovers can enjoy a diverse range of music and performing arts programs typically across Europe from Germany to Austria, France, England, and more! Odyssey seeks out programs for small group music tours that reflects historic performances of significance or the new up and coming performers for the future for your listening pleasure. Each trip has an itinerary for classical music lovers led by a knowledgeable tour leader and a good local tour guide that seeks to provide a concert program often built around a festival in Europe for the couple or solo traveller to enjoy.

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It is an itinerary that combines an educational base sightseeing city tour of spectacular scenery and history with a music tour. These small group tours in Europe will seek to go beyond the music to look at the influences on the artist or composer and how they interact with the unique musical history of cities diverse as London, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Munich, Dresden, Leipzig, and Bucharest amongst much more.

Often the history of the venue or opera house is shared with you and your companions to add to the unique experiences when you book on a 2021 small group classical music tours to Europe. The small group classical music tours offered each year to Europe are diverse. The itinerary of a tour package may range from a walking tour through the old town of a musical capital such as Vienna or Budapest, to musical performances of Europe‘s greatest composers. On our small group tours Germany opera houses remain a particular attraction where you can experience some of the best performances in the world in a range of cities outside of the capital Berlin, such as Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the the opera house theatre designed by Wagner in Bayreuth, Bavaria. Unique experiences are an important part of the cultural tours offered, ranging from Choral music, to a string quartet ensemble or piano recital, to jazz or a trip to Mozart’s birthplace with a great local tour guide. New music such as Phillip Glass may feature but music performances of Schubert, Bach, Satie or Mozart will also feature typically, because in small group tours Germany opera, as well as the composers of Austria and France, remain particularly popular.

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