Berlin

At the heart of European history and culture, Berlin is a fascinating, dynamic and vibrant capital city, offering a unique range of museums, galleries and concert halls.

5 nights price from £3378 per person

Paris

The Opéra de Paris presents an extraordinary range of operas and ballets each season – casting, repertory and musical depth are of the highest international calibre.

4 nights price from £3395 per person

The Savonlinna Opera Festival began in 1912 thanks to the efforts of Finnish soprano Aino Ackte who saw that the romantic setting of Olavinlinna Castle on Lake Saimaa would be a perfect stage for opera.

4 nights price from £3559 per person

Milan

La Scala, Milan is, for most opera lovers, the world’s most revered and important opera house. The theatre opened in 1778 with a performance of an opera by Salieri and since then many of the greatest Italian operas have received their first performance on its hallowed stage.

4 nights price from £2298 per person

Vienna

Our new Vienna holiday offers a fascinating and unique insight into the city’s cultural highlights in the company of two worldclass experts. Wine guru Jonathan Ray will introduce some of Austria’s increasingly varied and well-respected wines, and celebrated baritone Christopher Maltman will join us for dinner at one of the city’s best restaurants before his performance as Escamillo in Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ at the Vienna State Opera – one of two operas which we see during our stay.

4 nights price from £3289 per person

Leipzig

Organist Oliver Condy, former editor of BBC Music Magazine, leads this tour, retracing the life and career of Johann Sebastian Bach through the historic towns and cities of Thuringia and Saxony.

7 nights price from £3987 per person

The North Norfolk Music Festival is firmly established as one of the country’s leading chamber music festivals. It’s twenty years since Barry Cheeseman and Simon Rowland-Jones, both well known to Kirker clients, held the first concert in the north Norfolk village of South Creake, five miles from the coast.

5 nights price from £1998 per person

Tenerife

Escape from the rigours of the British winter for a week of music-making in the subtropical Canary Islands. We return to Tenerife for our exclusive festival, staying at the splendid 5* Hotel Botanico surrounded by lush gardens in Puerto de la Cruz.

7 nights price from £3986 per person

New York

We return to The Met this season for a programme of carefully selected operas with several important debuts by impressive young singers, including the high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, as well as appearances by the Russian soprano Aigul Akhmetshina who thrilled Glyndebourne audiences in 2024.

6 nights price from £4778 per person

Venice

La Fenice in Venice is one of the world’s most historic opera houses. Inaugurated in 1792 the opera house has, like its namesake the phoenix, been destroyed by fire and rebuilt, both in 1836 and 1996.

4 nights price from £2579 per person