Baden-Baden Festival Theatre
Baden-Baden is hard to beat for the way it combines relaxation with the enjoyment of music. All year round, the Baden - Baden Festival Theatre has a splendid programme of opera, ballet and concerts to suit a variety of classical music tastes.

Bayreuth - monument to a genius
Richard Wagner, one of the greatest of all German composers and a tremendously important figure in operatic history, left a monument to himself in the form of the famous Bayreuth Festival Theatre, built in 1872.

Berlin
Perhaps that's why Berlin has no fewer than three excellent opera houses: Deutsche Opera, Staatsopera unter den Linden and Komische Opera. All three have their own outstanding orchestras and ensembles performing operas of the highest calibre.

Charlottenburg Palace - Great Orangery
The Orangery at Charlottenburg Palace is a wonderful setting for a fabulous concert evening in an atmosphere of baroque splendour and soft candlelight but with up-to-date facilities. Every week from April to December, the Berlin Palace Orchestra - specially formed for this concert series - performs up to 6 concerts of the most beautiful music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frederick the Great, Luigi Boccherini, Georg Friedrich Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The orchestra and the front-of-house staff wear baroque costumes and the programme is performed by candlelight. Besides the concert, guests can enjoy a candlelit dinner in the historical setting of the Orangery illuminated by 500 candles. A tour of the palace or a boat trip on the river Spree rounds off the evening in style.

Dresden -The Semper Opera House
The Semper Opera House in Dresden - Germany's "Florence on the Elbe" - is not far from the famous Picture Gallery in the baroque Zwinger Palace and within sight of the Church of Our Lady (currently being restored).

Frankfurt am Main
In the 2002/2003 season, Frankfurt Opera won the award for best overall performer in the German-language opera houses category.

Munich - National Theatre
This magnificent, temple-like classical building is home to the Bavarian State Opera. Many famous operas, including Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde", were first performed at this historical venue.

Stuttgart - State Opera
Stuttgart State Opera has won the coveted Opera House of the Year award several years in succession, demonstrating that the city of Mercedes and Porsche offers a vibrant programme of high quality music and cultural events. The English online box-office is located here