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JOIN US ON OUR EXQUISITE 2019 MUSIC ARTS TOUR - DISCOVER THE ART MUSIC & CULTURE OF BREATHTAKING SCANDINAVIA, COMMENCING STOCKHOLM 26 SEPTEMBER 2019 (16 DAYS)
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Great Italian Musical Treasures 2018
Milan, Florence, Perugia, Spoleto, Rome, Ravello
25th June 2018
18 Days


Join us on our magnificent tour incorporating summer opera festivals of Italy - the Trasimeno, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Spoleto and the Ravello.

We will be indulging in breathtaking scenery, art, history and culture, visiting Italy's much loved cities as well as ancient regional towns of Spoleto and Ravello as well as the beautiful Isle of Capri. While the focus of our tour will be Italy's most prestigious summer festivals, we will also be paying tribute to the Renaissance masters, Botticelli, Michelangelo and Raphael, and the Baroque geniuses Bernini and Borromini, artists and architects who had so much influence on the artistic development of this wonderful and inspiring country. We will be incorporating visits to both the major and lesser known cultural sites and artistic masterpieces in each location, such as Castello Sforzesco, The Vasari Corridor and the magnificent Villa d'Este, with its extensive cypress gardens and many fountains.

PROVISIONAL ITINERARY
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Monday 25th June - Milan


Our tour commences in Milan, where we will we staying in the Hotel Milano Scala situated a few minutes’ walk from Teatro alla Scala, the Galleria Vittoria Emanuele and the Duomo Milano. Our hotel is also a pleasant walking distance to one of Milan’s most important galleries; the Pinacoteca di Brera, home to many masterpieces by leading Italian artists, including works by Raphael, Caravaggio and Mantegna; and the magnificent Castello Sforzesco, with its many museums and home to Michelangelo’s last sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà.

Meet fellow travellers in the late afternoon at our welcome Reception followed by dinner. (D)


Pre-tour days
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Our time on tour only allows a very brief stay in Milan which for many, is not sufficient time to explore this gracious and artistic city. Please let us know if you would like us to arrange additional nights in our hotel in Milan on your behalf. We will also be available for guided tours by prior arrangement.​


Tuesday 26th June - Milan


Enjoy a guided tour of the main precinct of Milan, the Duomo and lunch in the famous Galleria. This afternoon we will visit the ancient town of Cremona, situated on the north bank of the Po River just a couple of hours' drive north east of Milan and famous for the XXX


After an afternoon at leisure we will meet for dinner before our opera performance at Teatro alla Scala.
(D)


Wednesday 27th June - Milan/ Florence

After a leisurely morning in Milan, we will transfer to Milano Centrale in time to catch the afternoon train to Florence. XXXXX 
Our hotel in Florence will be the
very centrally located Grand Hotel Minerva. Enjoy an introductory guided walking tour of this artistic Renaissance city.


Thursday 28th June - Florence
Enjoy a guided walking tour of this fine renaissance city, including a visit to the historic Ponte Vecchio, the Pitti Palace and gardens and the Accademia Museum. We will also visit the *Medici Vasari Corridor, which provides excellent views across Florence from its elevated passages which stretch from the Palazzo Vecchio to the Palazzo Pitti. (*Pending availability.)

We also factor in free time for independent wandering through this magical city with its endless Renaissance art and architecture, beautiful scenery and elegant shopping or to enjoy a relaxing afternoon at our hotel's magnificent roof-top swimming pool and panoramic terrace from where you can take-in one of the world's most beautiful 360 degree views across the façade of the Church of Santa Maria Novella, the Duomo, Giotto’s Bell tower and the Palazzo Vecchio.

Friday 28th June - 7th July Trasimeno Festival, Perugia

Travel to Perugia for Angela Hewitt's renowned Trasimeno Festival, a highlight of the European Summer Festival calendar.

Our time will be spent enjoying the marvellous festival performances in locations such as the XXX the ZZZ and the CCC. The festival programme also includes walking tours of Perugia accompanied by a local English speaking guide and visits to nearby Roman towns such as XX or FFF.


Full details will be available on publication of the Trasimeno Festival programme for 2018.


Friday 3rd July XXXXXX Festival, Spoleto

Travel by private minibus to Spoleto for the XXX Festival, another European summer festivals delight.

We will stay two or three nights in Spoleto in the delightful Hotel Luca pending the finalised festival programme.


Friday 5th July Rome

Glorious Rome
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We will stay two or three nights in this wonderful ancient city.
During our time here we will enjoy a guided walk from our 
hotel, visiting Rome's most significant sights, for example, the Piazza di Spagna, Fontana di Trevi, Il Pantheon, Campo de’ Fiori, Piazza Navona.

Today we will take the metro further afield to St Peter's Basilica, Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. Our tour will end at Castel Sant Angelo, originally built as a mausoleum for the Emperor Hadrian (AD130-139). It is the famed setting for the last act of Puccini’s Tosca. Here one can admire the beautiful views across Rome over coffee or cocktails in one of its rampart tower terraces. We will return to our hotel via the ancient Trastevere district, with its rich history and character, often referred to as the ‘Village within the City’. (D)

Villa d' Este, Tivoli

A 
UNESCO World Heritage site, Villa d'Este resides within mesmerising gardens of cypresses and fountains. Commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509-1572), son of Alfonso I d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia and grandson of Pope Alexander VI, the Villa d'Este is a masterpiece of Italian architecture and especially garden design. We will also visit the magnificent Hadrian's Villa, built as a private summer retreat for the Emperor of the same name between AD 118 and 134. (L)


Friday 8th July Ravello Festival, Amalfi region

As well as enjoying the highly popular XXXX Festival, our stay in Italy's famed Amalfi coast will also include guided visits to Naples and Pompei, as well as an excursion to the beautiful Isle of Capri.


We will meet for dinner before our evening performance, the delightful one
act opera, Gianni Schicchi,  an opera buffa in one act, based on an incident mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy. The work is the third and final part of Puccini's Il Trittico. Gianni Schicchi has been received with great enthusiasm since its  premier at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1918.
(D)

EVENING PERFORMANCE:
GIANNI SCHICCHI
Teatro Comunale Firenze

Giacomo Puccini
Libretto: Giovacchino Forzano


Wednesday 18th July
FLORENCE

Morning: Guided walk via the historic Ponte Vecchio to the Pitti Palace and gardens for a guided tour.
The remainder of the day is your own, for further exploration or to enjoy a relaxing afternoon at our hotel's magnificent roof-top swimming pool and panoramic terrace from where you can take-in one of the world's most beautiful 360 degree views across the façade of the Church of Santa Maria Novella, the Duomo, Giotto’s Bell tower and the Palazzo Vecchio.


This evening we will enjoy a choral performance at the historic Anglican Church of St Marks.

EVENING PERFORMANCE:
Choral Concert
St Mark’s Anglican Church
Florence


Friday 20th July
LUCCA

This morning we take a pleasant drive through the Tuscan countryside in our private coach to the Medieval walled town of LUCCA, arriving in time for lunch at your leisure at one of the many elegant restaurants around Piazza Napoleone, home to a marble statue of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, sister of Napoleone Bonaparte, who ruled Lucca from 1805 to 1815.
The afternoon will be your own for a siesta or further exploration.
We will meet for dinner before our transfer to TORRE del LARGO for our first Puccini Festival performance, held in the open air theatre a short distance from the villa where the great composer lived and worked.
(D)

EVENING PERFORMANCE:
TOSCA
Giacomo Puccini
Puccini Festival
Torre del Largo


Saturday 21st July
LUCCA

This morning we will take an excursion to the 10th century hill-top walled town of San Gimignano, situated some 350 m above sea level and dominating the Elsa Valley. Once the centre of 'Via Francigena', the flourishing trading and pilgrim's route, San Gimignano has an established cultural importance and is home to many 14th century paintings of the Sienese School and 15th century paintings of the Florentine School, examples of which can be seen in the Duomo and the Palazzo del Popolo. We will lunch at one of the many San Gimignano restaurants. (L)

We will return to Lucca in time for an afternoon siesta, before our second
Puccini Festival performance.


EVENING PERFORMANCE:
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Giacomo Puccini
Puccini Festival
Torre del Largo


Sunday 22nd July
ROME

After a leisurely last morning in Lucca, we will return to Florence by private coach in time to catch the high speed train to ROME, arriving in the late afternoon. Our Rome hotel will be the beautiful and tranquil VICTORIA HOTEL ROMA, situated by the 2000 year old Aurelian Wall in the historical centre of Rome facing the beautiful Villa Borghese Gardens, just minutes walk from Via Veneto and Villa Borghese.
The remainder of the day will be a restful one, giving you time to stroll
through our hotel's marvelous surrounds.
During our time in Rome we will see one or two operas of the Teatro Alla
Roma
, at the Baths of Caracalla where summer operas are staged, depending on their schedule.Dinner will be served beforehand. 
(D)

EVENING PERFORMANCES:
Evening opera performances at the ancient Baths of Caracalla.
Program details to be advised.


Monday 23rd July
ROME

This morning our guide will collect you from our hotel for a guided walking tour, introducing, or re-introducing you to Rome's most significant sights, including the Piazza di Spagna, Fontana di Trevi, Il Pantheon, Campo de’ Fiori, Piazza Navona. 

Tuesday 24th July
ROME

Departing early, we will visit the UNESCO World Heritage site, Villa d' Este, Tivoli, set in splendid and mesmerising gardens of cypresses and fountains. Commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509-1572), son of Alfonso I d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia and grandson of Pope Alexander VI, the Villa d'Este is a masterpiece of Italian architecture and especially garden design. We will also visit the magnificent Hadrian's Villa, built as a private summer retreat for the Emperor of the same name between AD 118 and 134. Lunch will be included before returning to our hotel during the afternoon. (L)
 
Wednesday 25th July
ROME

Today we will take the metro further afield to St Peter's Basilica, Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. Our tour will end at Castel Sant Angelo, originally built as a mausoleum for the Emperor Hadrian (AD130-139). It is the famed setting for the last act of Puccini’s Tosca. Here one can admire the beautiful views across Rome over coffee or cocktails in one of its rampart tower terraces. We will return to our hotel via the ancient Trastevere district, with its rich history and character, often referred to as the ‘Village within the City’.
In the evening we meet for our Farewell Dinner. (D)

Thursday 26th July
ROME

Our wonderful Italian tour concludes after breakfast.


Post Tour Days in Rome
If you would like to extend your stay in Rome at our hotel please advise us at your time of booking and we will be happy to arrange this on your behalf.

  
If you would like to be kept abreast of additional information as it becomes available, please join our
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Music Performances: We will obtain details regarding our music performances for September 2017 in May 2017 as they are released. Please note that the famous San Sebastian International Film Festival also takes place during this time.
"The best thing about a Lingua Musica Tour is that they have personally visited every hotel in their Itinerary and personally travelled all routes taken, so that there are never any nasty surprises. But best of all, they take us to small fascinating festivals, obtaining excellent tickets. The individual traveller would find it impossible to achieve the results of Lingua Musica's knowledge, built up over a life-time of travel, coupled with their on-going research."
Clive Stark, ABC Radio Arts Personality, Melbourne, Australia

STOP PRESS!
JOIN LINGUA MUSICA IN 2017

EXPLORE SPECTACULAR SPAIN
​BOOKINGS CLOSE 14 FEBRUARY 2017

Madrid - Bilbao - San Sebastian - Seville - Cordoba - Granada and more ...
Spectacular history, world class art and gardens, classical music performances


DEPARTS: 14 September 2017
18 DAYS
$9,475 pp twin share
​For booking enquiries email Roma Randles at lingmus@alphalink.com.au​
           
                   LINGUA MUSICA'S SPECTACULAR TOUR 2017
                        "A SPANISH RHAPSODY"

 
               
LINGUA MUSICA deliberately guards its status as a small boutique organisation offering a really personal approach and this is why many participants return again and again to travel with us. We are like a group of friends travelling and discovering together and these friendships last. It is also why we are able to offer so much first class content at a more affordable rate than larger travel companies. We welcome you in 2017.

Our tour this year commences in the BASQUE COUNTRY of the North, the Basques being "a race apart", which they never want you to forget! The geographical centre of Spain, MADRID, with its population of over 3 million and high altitude, situated at 2,150 ft above sea level and its wealth of monuments .... no less than three internationally acclaimed art galleries, their magnificent royal palace, grand public squares and gardens, the famous El Escorial and so very much more, including its important opera and music venues. We visit SEGOVIA ... a very different and no less important historic facet of Spain on a day excursion and then on to ANDALUSIA ... so different again, with its towns rich in Islamic heritage ... SEVILLE, CORDOBA, GRANADA .... we embrace this regions diverse celebrations ... flamenco, moorish influences, as well as their art, architecture, music and dance.
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Join Lingua Musica at Angela Hewitt's Trasimeno Music Festival.

Roma Randles, musician and Lingua  Musica Director, extends a very special invitation to join her at the eleventh TRASIMENO MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Dates: 30th June - 11th July 2015.
BOOKINGS CLOSE 15 MARCH 2015.


The Trasimeno package includes an intimate pre-festival concert, five festival concerts, excursions to Assisi, Spello, Perugia and other neighbouring mediaeval towns.

We commence in the eternal city, Rome and will also visit  Spoleto for a further festival concert, their annual Festival dei Due Mondi, as well as one night in Florence. 


For a detailed Itinerary and booking form please send Roma Randles an email directly at lingmus@alphalink.com.au

Small group only. We have secured only eight Trasimeno festival tickets.
BOOKINGS CLOSE 15 MARCH 2015.

ANGELA HEWITT, OC OBE

British/Canadian classical pianist.

Angela Hewitt has performed around the world in recital and as soloist with orchestra. She is most well known for her cycle of Bach recordings which she began in 1994 and finished in 2005 — covering all  the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach. More ...

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"Our philosophy is to incorporate many events beyond the norm. This is what makes our tours so special."

Roma Randles



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          OUR LISZT TOUR:


"This was my fifth tour with Roma, speaking volumes in itself. The relaxed and friendly atmosphere she creates made the whole experience a sheer delight. The hotels were excellent, the guides, lecturers and music performances were wonderful. All in all it was a wonderful time."
Terence Lewis ATCL Hon ARAM
Managing Director
Jaques Samuel Pianos, 
London, UK.
 
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     TOUR WITH US IN 2013
Come with us to Santiago, Valparaiso, Chillán, Buenos Aires, New York, as we travel in the footsteps of
CLAUDIO ARRAU

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Claudio Arrau
In association with her book, “A Life in Music: Ruth Nye and the Arrau Heritage”, coming out in London in December 2012, Roma Randles, Musician and Director of LINGUA MUSICA, has designed a never-to-be-repeated tour following in the footsteps of the late great maestro, CLAUDIO ARRAU. With references to his German training, but focusing on Chilean Arrau’s South American background as well as his New York residency and the colossal intensity of his years of international performing, Roma Randles offers a tour of enormous diversity of both artistic, historical and visual experience.

Claudio Arrau (1903 – 1991) was one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century ... an aristocrat of the piano, who astounded all who heard him and whose production of special tone qualities was recognised and revered by all knowledgeable musicians. A great intellectual, who spoke five languages, who read voraciously and whose quest for knowledge remained all his life, he was as well, the most approachable and kindest of men and generous in his aim to help those young musicians who followed him. ITINERARY & PRICING DETAILS

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST or send an email to Roma Randles at lingmus@alphalink.com.au to register early interest.

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"The best thing about a Lingua Musica Tour is that they have personally visited every hotel in their Itinerary and personally travelled all routes taken, so that there are never any nasty surprises. But best of all, they take us to small fascinating festivals, obtaining excellent tickets. The individual traveller would find it impossible to achieve the results of Lingua Musica's knowledge, built up over a life-time of travel, coupled with their on-going research."
Clive Stark, ABC Radio Arts Personality, Melbourne Australia



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Schumann, Chopin and More
- including the Lucerne Festival
September 2010
16 days
Bookings Close 23rd May 2010

For a detailed itinerary and pricing details please click here.

Venice and Ljubljana
September / October 2010
7 days
Bookings Close 23rd May 2010


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2011 Tours
We are in our planning phase. To register your interest in receiving updated information on these and additional tours before our scheduled mailing list, please contact us.

Paris Classics
- opera, classical music, art and culture in Paris and surrounds
June 2011
7 days

This Tour can be optionally followed by Provence Festivals.
For Additional Information, click here.

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Provence Festivals - Aix-en-Provence and Orange
- ‘d'Art Lyrique et de Musique’ and Les Chorégies festivals, Cezanne and Van Gogh, Arles, Nimes and Avignon where we will explore renowned archeological, historical sites.
June 2011
7 days


This Tour is designed to optionally follow after our 'Paris Classics' tour.
For additional information, click here.
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Mediterranean Culture - Nice and surrounds
- explore art and culture in Nice, Cannes, St Tropez, Antibes, St Paul-de-Vence, Villefranche, Monaco. Monet, Chagall, Picasso
June 2011
7 days


This Tour is designed to optionally follow after our 'Provence Festivals' tour.
Detailed itinerary and pricing information will be available in June 2010. If you would like to receive information before our scheduled mailing list, please contact us.


 


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