🛫 WMPA Traveling Friends 🛬
For more than 15 years, WMPA has hosted unforgettable trips to France, Italy, Ireland, Poland, the Dalmation Coast, the Baltics, Hungary, Romania, Austria, and the Netherlands, among other adventures. Organized by a professional tour operator, we offer an experience filled with music and authentic moments to create a lifetime of memories.
⏰ Registration Deadline: December 31 ⏰
An Exclusive Cultural Adventure for WMPA Traveling Friends
Spoleto Festival USA
June 4—9, 2024
Join Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Music Director Anna Binneweg as you experience the magnificent Spoleto Festival with a PRIVATE group (limited to 24 WMPA friends), on an exclusive learning adventure. This international multi-arts celebration is America’s premiere international performing arts festivals, filling lovely Charleston’s historic theaters, churches and outdoor spaces with performances by world-renowned artists and emerging performers in opera, theater, dance, chamber, symphonic, choral, bluegrass and jazz. Hear from Spoleto staff as you attend six performances with reserved tickets and seating.
Along with many included performances and activities, free time is built into the program so that you may pursue your own interests with opportunities to schedule additional performances and dine out on your own.
Along with many included performances and activities, free time is built into the program so that you may pursue your own interests with opportunities to schedule additional performances and dine out on your own.
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Highlights:
Double Occupancy: $3,099
Single Occupancy: $3,919
Price includes a $300 tax-deductible donation to WMPA
What’s Included:
Keep the Pace! Charleston is a walking city with some uneven terrain, cobblestone streets, and stairs. Expect walking back and forth up to seven blocks to concert venues. Pedi-cabs, taxis or Uber are available (at own expense) if assistance is needed traveling to performance venues.
- Be thrilled by symphonies and operas, exhilarated by jazz and bluegrass, electrified by dance and delighted by theater
- Ride a horse-drawn carriage through more than 300 years of history, including antebellum mansions, churches and gardens.
- Enjoy reserved seating for all performances as well as a significant amount of free time for exploring the festival.
Double Occupancy: $3,099
Single Occupancy: $3,919
Price includes a $300 tax-deductible donation to WMPA
What’s Included:
- 5 nights of accommodations
- 10 meals (5 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 3 dinners)
- 3 expert-led lectures
- 2 expert-led field trips
- 6 performances
- Group travel (sometimes walking) and transfers throughout the program
- A Group Leader to accompany you throughout the program to handle all logistics
- Customary gratuities, taxes and destination fees
- The Road Scholar Assurance Plan, including 24-hour assistance for medical and other emergencies
Keep the Pace! Charleston is a walking city with some uneven terrain, cobblestone streets, and stairs. Expect walking back and forth up to seven blocks to concert venues. Pedi-cabs, taxis or Uber are available (at own expense) if assistance is needed traveling to performance venues.
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Five Nights at the Grand Francis Marion Hotel:
The Francis Marion Hotel, located in the heart of historic Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest and grandest in the Carolinas when it opened in 1924. Named for General Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution, the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston re-opened in 1996 after a $12 million National Trust award-winning restoration, and is once again Charleston's Grand Hotel. |
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Registration Instructions:
To register by telephone:
Please call Road Scholar toll free at (800) 322-5315, reference Program # 21257 – Spoleto Festival USA starting on June 4, 2024 and note that you are a part of the WMPA Traveling Friends group.
To register online:
Please click the link below and scroll down to the 6/4/2024 date that is marked as a private departure for WMPA Traveling Friends. Enter the code – 21257 – press the Red Go button and follow the prompts to register:
https://www.roadscholar.org/find-an-adventure/21257/Spoleto-Festival-USA/dates/
At the time of registration, you will have the opportunity to purchase the optional trip protection plan – in order to be covered for pre-existing conditions, you must purchase the optional insurance within 14 days of registration.
https://www.roadscholar.org/about/protection-plan/
If you have additional questions, please call Frania Monarski at (617) 457-5528 or frania.monarski@roadscholar.org.
To register by telephone:
Please call Road Scholar toll free at (800) 322-5315, reference Program # 21257 – Spoleto Festival USA starting on June 4, 2024 and note that you are a part of the WMPA Traveling Friends group.
To register online:
Please click the link below and scroll down to the 6/4/2024 date that is marked as a private departure for WMPA Traveling Friends. Enter the code – 21257 – press the Red Go button and follow the prompts to register:
https://www.roadscholar.org/find-an-adventure/21257/Spoleto-Festival-USA/dates/
At the time of registration, you will have the opportunity to purchase the optional trip protection plan – in order to be covered for pre-existing conditions, you must purchase the optional insurance within 14 days of registration.
https://www.roadscholar.org/about/protection-plan/
If you have additional questions, please call Frania Monarski at (617) 457-5528 or frania.monarski@roadscholar.org.
Northern Italy and Slovenia May/June 2023
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Brittany and Normandy, France 2022
photo collage: Margaret Ballard
WMPA Traveling Friends had a super trip this past May 2022 when we went to a magnificent part of France: Brittany. This province is intimate, ancient, and surrounded by water. We were immersed in cultural explorations and activities including music, dance, and lots and lots of art! Camaraderie is key, and the tour also benefits the orchestra financially. In Normandy we enjoyed the beachheads with a specialist guide. Bayeux is an area we also enjoyed, as well as some cliffside spaces north of the Beachheads. Then off to visit at Saint Malo, Dinan, with an optional day visit to Mont Saint Michel. We spent three days at scenically unbelievable Côte d’ Granit Rose, along the Northern coast of Brittany. This part of the coast is truly magnificent and rock formations are otherworldly. The paths we walked were easy and well-marked. A visit to Sept Isles offered the experience of exotic bird life. We visited magical Locronan en route to Vannes: from Vannes we visited an artist’s haven, also Paul Gauguin’s Haven at Pont Aven and Concarneau. Our day with the Megalithic monuments at Carnac and Locmariaquer was memorable.
Romania and Hungary 2019
