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Provider: Allegro Holidays
Price: from $2,076
If you think Mozart sounds glorious on your iPod, try listening to one of his operas at the Estates Theatre in Prague, where he premiered Don Giovanni in 1787. For classical music aficionados, there's no better trip than a pilgrimage to Central Europe's capitals, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, where many pillars of the genre lived and composed their famous works.
Allegro Holidays, a tour company that specializes in arts, music, and other cultural packages, offers an independent tour of the "Magic Triangle," including three nights each in Vienna, Prague, and Budapest. The itinerary allows you to explore these cities on your own, but includes music-themed tours plus tickets to a musical performance in each destination.
'[The tour] highlights are definitely the first-class musical performances," says Eva Berkes of Allegro Holidays. "It is possible to attend operas, chamber music concerts, symphonic music, operettas, organ concerts, choirs, and even pantomimes depending on the program schedules of the different venues."
You choose the concerts that interest you most. Perhaps watch the Strauss waltz Blue Danube performed at the Schönbrunner Palace in Vienna, hear the Czech Philharmonic at the Rudolfinum in Prague, or listen to folk songs written by acclaimed Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály in Budapest.
The details
Tour prices start at €1,510 per person (about $2,076; see XE.com for current exchange rates), which covers nine nights' accommodations, daily breakfast and some dinners, several tours and excursions in each city, rail tickets and an intra-Europe flight, airport transfers, and tickets to a performance of your choice in each city. Prices vary depending on the level of accommodations you choose, and some performances may require an additional charge. Current rates are valid through October. Round-trip October flights from New York to Prague, the tour's start point, are priced around $357 on Iberia. Taxes are extra.
