Opera Tour Europe | Enjoy Theatre, Ballet, and Classical Music

Program for December 2025 program will be available August 2025.

This Opera Tour Europe, combined with theatre, ballet, and classical music performances is a 22-day extravaganza across four leading European cities. This is a chance for music lovers and fans of the performing arts to see and hear a showcase of performances and European opera whilst on holiday.

Each year, Odyssey Traveller seeks to put together the very best of the varied performing arts on offer into one program to celebrate the start of the new year. Going into 2025/26, the program will not be any different. This year, the tour intends to spend 22 days in these 4 great locations.

• Hamburg (5 nights) including New Year's Eve plus 1 night at the end of the tour
• Amsterdam (3 nights)
• Paris (6 nights)
• London (6 nights)

This tour from Odyssey Traveller includes tickets to at least 11 performances during the 22 days, as well as guided city tours to the main museums and art galleries in most locations with a focus on history and the arts. The group is limited to a maximum of 10 people.

The following list is a sample of concerts, operas & performances that the group attends in each city (taken from past tours).

Hamburg is where the group is based for New Year's Eve, and where you'll enjoy the thrill of a performance at the new Elbphilharmonie.

• The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra supplies the perfect background music, with masterpieces of light entertainment for the end of the year. This year the programme features a brilliant musical: Alan Gilbert conducts My Fair Lady.
• Enjoy a performance of Beethoven's 9th on NYE.
• A Jazz performance with De phazz in the main concert chamber of the Elbphilharmonie

Amsterdam

• Hannes Minnaar performs Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30 and two other pieces with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

Paris

• Attend a concert in the concert hall at the Phiharmonie de Paris. Conductor Herbert Blomstedt bestows his brilliance and pure mastery of Mozart’s Concerto No. 23.
• Attend the Royal Opera at the Chateau de Versailles to watch the opera performance of Mozart's famous The Magic Flute.

London

• Enjoy Le Corsaire as performed by the English National Ballet
• attend the final performance at the Royal Opera House of the Royal Ballet's performance of Sleeping Beauty

Hamburg

• The group returns to Hamburg for our final concert at the Elbphilharmonie Great Hall where the legendary Christoph von Dohnányi (age 90) conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

It is a great, diverse program for music lovers. Our European opera tours and music tours reflect the best of the performing arts in these cities. Our guided tour allows to attend some 12 concerts from late December 2019 to mid-January 2020.

Odyssey Traveller secures good-to-better-than-average seats on this program and will typically provides taxis back to the hotels after evening performances. 

Check out the blog post in which we profiled some new recently opened European concert halls here!

You can learn more about Germany, the Netherlands, France and England with our country profiles where all other tour departures are listed as well. For more details about this tour, click the ‘Top 5’ or ‘Itinerary’ buttons above! If you’re keen to experience this tour, please call or send an email. Or, to book, simply fill in the form on the right hand side of this page.

• Level 1 - Introductory to Moderate
• Music and Performing arts
• Specialised