blank 2009 Tours Tour Catalogue SF Opera Reviews     Click on these titles for additional pages   News from France Review Archive Architecture Tours       Opera and Architecture Tours and Travel   Festival Tour is carefully curated travel. We organize tours that combine opera and theater performances at Europe's lesser known festivals and provincial cities with off-the-beaten path sightseeing. We curate architecture tours focusing on a single, great architect that we examine in the company of architects and academics with unique perspectives.     Click here to contact Festival Tour       FestivalTour is a boutique tour company based in San Francisco, FestivalTour.org is an introduction to our travel. Please check 2009 Tours for scheduled tours, and the Tour Catalogue for tours that we schedule when there is sufficient interest.   Festival Tour brings small groups (never more than fourteen participants) of opera and architecture afecionados together in travel. Our tours quickly become adventures with friends far more than just intelligent and informed travel.   Please ask to be on our mailing list so that we may inform you about upcoming tours, and other architectural and operatic activities that we sponsor from time to time. We are often at San Francisco Opera performances, and always eager to meet for a drink at intermission.   For those planning individual travel Festival Tour offers consulting services in areas within our expertise. xx[text continues, please scroll down]   FestivalTour director Michael Milenski was on the production staff of San Francisco Opera from 1970 to 1978. He is the general director emeritus of Long Beach (California) Opera, and was Professor of Opera at California State University, Long Beach. Michael pursued his doctoral studies in the Italian Renaissance at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of Florence. Michael has been leading opera tours to Europe since 1985.   Contact FestivalTour: Please telephone 562 301 2211 or address email messages to vmmilenski at yahoo dot com.   Just for the fun of it we have included a few reviews of uniquely interesting opera productions we have attended on our travels. These are found in the Review Archive.   Festival Tour is based in the South of France during summer festival season and at all other times of the year when opera is lacking in San Francisco, thus there is always some News from France that may be of some interest. Schedules, reviews, practical information of opera in the South of France may be found at Michael Milenski's French website www.CapSurOpera.com.