Spend a unique evening in the amazing ambience of the baroque Nymphenburg Palace. The Schloss concert - dinner takes you into a sensual world full of art, dining and music.

The Concert is held in the baroque Hubertussaal and after the concert you will enjoy a three-course-menu, served in the solemnly atmosphere of the Orangerie. We present masterpieces of classical music from Mozart, Rossini, Vivaldi and many more, which are performed by outstanding artists in historic costumes. The concert is moderated and offers not only amazing music, but also interesting details of the composers` lives or on the background of the artwork.

The royal glance of the palace and the sensual combination of music and dining, make the Schloss concert - dinner a unique experience.

Date	Time	Concert Name
03/01/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Rossini-Nacht
04/01/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
17/01/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Wiener Operetten-Gala
18/01/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Verdi-Nacht
14/02/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Valentinskonzert - Klassik fr Liebende
15/02/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Musical-Highlights
21/03/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Vier Jahreszeiten
22/03/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Mozart-Nacht
11/04/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
12/04/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Festliches Osterkonzert; die schnsten Adagios
09/05/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Verdi-Nacht
10/05/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Der Barbier von Sevilla
13/06/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Mozart-Nacht
14/06/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Vivaldi-Nacht
25/07/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Carmen
26/07/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
08/08/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
09/08/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Verdi-Nacht
12/09/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
13/09/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Vivaldi - Vier Jahreszeiten
17/10/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Mozart-Nacht
18/10/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Puccini-Nacht
07/11/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
08/11/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Verdi-Nacht
12/12/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
13/12/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Zauberflte - Hhepunkte und Arien
19/12/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Harfentrume
20/12/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
26/12/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Meisterwerke
27/12/09	7:00pm or 7:30pm	Mozart-Nacht

With this exclusive packaged hotel deal you will recieve ticket(s) to "Rigoletto" at the Semper Oper, and accommodation at the hotel of your choice.

Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi

How deeply the fate of court jester Rigoletto and his sheltered daughter Gilda moves us! The opera was enthusiastically received at its premier performance in 1851 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Today, the opera continues to draw those who would always gladly be moved by Giuseppe Verdi’s melody of a futile quest for a little bit of happiness and the tragic experiences associated with this pursuit.

Rigoletto wants nothing more than retreating into a happy private life with his daughter after finishing his service to the court. Through his activities for the Duke of Mantua, he catches on to the thoughtless amusements, knows the pastimes of those who have it too good and who take too much. Lacking any awareness of wrongdoing, they have no concept of sympathy, simply because they defer to nothing and to no one. They are the law for they have the power. Rigoletto will at times join in, because it is the world in which he earns a living for himself and his motherless daughter. But then he flees into the purity of his domesticity. Which he can only maintain by keeping his private life strictly separated from his social one and raising Gilda isolated from the public eye. But isolation has its price: in church, the only public place she is allowed to go, Gilda meets the love of her life. For those not familiar with the story: her beloved is the duke himself, although incognito pretending to be a student. And Rigoletto, envied and hated by the others, unknowingly becomes the helper and accomplice in the abduction of his own daughter, bound for the Dukes sleeping chambers. He swears revenge on the duke and arranges for his assassination.

Gilda learns of the conspiracy to murder the duke and follows her new life plan, modelled on not clinging but rather selflessly protecting she sacrifices her life for her unfaithful beloved. She is inspired by an idealism known only to those who confront life with illusions. Fleeing through a life unknown for love, she is unprepared for it and destined to perish. Seeing his daughter dying instead of the duke destroys Rigolettos life.

What a dark panorama of the world unfolds in this opera!
The storys poetic basis is Victor Hugos drama Le roi samuse. The premiere performance of the drama in 1832 caused a considerable stir, Verdi and his librettist Francesco Maria Piave were plagued by censorship: a governing sovereign, Francis I of France, was not permitted to appear on stage as a debauchee. Verdi sprinkled name changes for the main figures throughout his work and set it in a different place and time. And he made the court jester the title hero. And yet his peers would certainly not have had any trouble understanding the message as being contemporary.

With Rigoletto, Verdi, who himself lost two children in a short period of time and who was regarded as a politically and socially committed artist, created a musical drama of a world filled with justice and injustice in the face of misuse of power and self-serving love cutting deeply through lifes social strata and confines. Whether his figures are entirely guilty or only innocently guilty, they are trapped as if before a mirror. They are people with all their good as well as their bad sides. But there is also a woman as laer in Il Trovatore and La Traviata befallen by injustice on which she bases her love, her idealistic dreams of happiness maturing just as vaguely as the more or less realistic illusions of life held by the men.

The history of the Oberammergau Passion Play begins in 1633. During the Thirty Years' War, after much suffering and also many deaths caused by the plague, the surviving population of Oberammergau vowed that they would perform the "play of the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ" every ten years if they were spared from extinction.

At Whitsun in 1634 they kept their promise for the first time. As early as the middle of the 18th century spectators came to Oberammergau from all parts of Germany, attracted by the great power and mystique of the play.

In 2010 the village will perform the play for the 41st time, maintaining the continuity of this unique world famous event.

Performance Times

Times:

• First part begins @ 2.30pm & ends @ 5pm
• Second part begins @ 8pm & ends @ 10.30pm
• Running Time: 5 hours

Madame Tussauds Berlin opened its doors to the public on 5th July 2008 in the citys prestigious Unter den Linden Boulevard. The eighth Madame Tussauds attraction in the world, Madame Tussauds Berlin will be a unique, fully immersive visitor experience.

Using state of the art technology, clever interactives and dramatic backdrops the attraction will showcase a range of incredibly lifelike wax figures of Hollywood A-listers, sports stars, historic figures and icons of contemporary culture.

There are eight different zones within the attraction and as well as getting up close and personal to wax figures of everyone from sports stars to politicians, visitors can enjoy a whole world of interactive experiences in each zone.

Times: Daily at 10am

Closed on 24th December

Adult: 15 - 59 years

Child: 3 - 14 years

Concession: Students 15 - 26 years & Senoirs 60+

Your visit to the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre will take about two hours. On your journey through the varied world of LEGO, you will be actively involved in the events around you. Of course, you can diligently play with the colourful bricks and maybe even build something.

The first stop takes all LEGO fans to the mini land, where you will find a mini model of the Ruhr Area, made of more than one million LEGO bricks. Whether Duisburg's inland port, Zeche Zollverein mine or the gasometer in Oberhausen, everything can be admired at a scale of 1:45. In the 4D cinema, you will escape reality for a moment and become part of the goings-on. 15 minutes of three-dimensional action with the specially produced LEGO film "Der Zauberschwur" ("The Magic Oath") with numerous effects, which will cause a stir among the visitors not just on the screen, but also in the cinema itself.

Times: Daily at 10am

There are more LEGO bricks in the world than there are people, working out to the staggering total of 5 billion bricks which can be used to build virtually anything you can picture in your mind. Now, at last, a dream has come true in Berlin for LEGO fans: the giant indoor LEGO world. At Easter 2007, the world's very first LEGOLAND Discovery Centre opened in the Sony Center at the Potsdamer Platz. Based on LEGO's core values of learning through play, unlimited creativity, interactivity and active fun, the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre offers a unique combination of exciting entertainment and an educational concept under one roof. A tour around the six thrilling activity areas takes approx. two hours and visitors are fully and actively integrated in many fascinating activities on offer at the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre.

Times: Daily at 10am

Closed on 24th December

Built in 2000, the Hamburg Dungeon is a tourist attraction from a chain including the London Dungeon and York Dungeon. It is the first of this brand to be built in mainland Europe. It provides a journey through Hamburgs dark history in an actor led, interactive experience. Shows are:

Torture Chamber: A show based on the interrogation of those thought to be smuggling to defy the 18th century Napoleonic invasion.

Great Fire of Hamburg: Visitors have to find their way through the terrible fire that devastated much of Hamburg in 1842.

The Plague: A recreation of the streets of plague ravaged Hamburg street, where the effect the killer disease had in the city in 1664 is animated.

Labyrinth of the Lost: A mirror maze.

The Inquisition: The visitor stands in an Inquisition court where they are accused of sins against God! The punishments are always harsh and the court is unforgiving as some of the darkest moments of the countrys history are played out.

Times: Daily at 11am

Closed on 24th Dec

Adult: 15 - 59 years

Child: 3 - 14 years

Concession: Students 15 - 26 years & Senoirs 60+

Please go to the fast track / pre-booked tickets entrance and exchange voucher for original tickets at the counter.

The SEA LIFE is a spectacular attraction in which visitors feel themselves immersed in the marine environment rather than mere spectators.

SEA LIFE features a dramatic walkthrough underwater see-through tunnel where it often seems that you are the captive creature while the fish swim freely watching you rather than the other way round.

Gone are the gallery-style collections of oblong tanks, and in their place displays of all shapes and sizes offering astonishingly close views of an array of creatures through windows which are flat, curved and even bubble-shaped!

Increasing awareness of the importance of safeguarding the seas and their inhabitants is an integral element of the SEA LIFE experience, and the companys marine experts are actively involved in a wide range of research, rescue and conservation endeavours.

Times: Opened daily at 10am - last admission 4 p.m. (closing at 5 p.m.)

Adult - 15-59 years

Child - 3-14 years

Concession - Students 15-26 years and Seniors 60+

Please go to the fast track / pre-booked tickets entrance and exchange voucher for original tickets at the counter.

The SEA LIFE is a spectacular attraction in which visitors feel themselves immersed in the marine environment rather than mere spectators.

SEA LIFE features a dramatic walkthrough underwater see-through tunnel where it often seems that you are the captive creature while the fish swim freely watching you rather than the other way round.

Gone are the gallery-style collections of oblong tanks, and in their place displays of all shapes and sizes offering astonishingly close views of an array of creatures through windows which are flat, curved and even bubble-shaped!

Increasing awareness of the importance of safeguarding the seas and their inhabitants is an integral element of the SEA LIFE experience, and the companys marine experts are actively involved in a wide range of research, rescue and conservation endeavours.

Times

July-07.Sept (daily) 10am-7pm

May-June and 8.Sept till 31.Oct (daily) 10am-6pm

November-April (Monday to Friday) 10am-5pm
(Sat, Sun, bank holidays and vacations Baden-Wrttemberg) 10am-6pm

Adult - 15-59 years

Child - 3-14 years

Concession - Students 15-26 years and Seniors 60+

Please go to the fast track / pre-booked tickets entrance and exchange voucher for original tickets at the counter.

The SEA LIFE is a spectacular attraction in which visitors feel themselves immersed in the marine environment rather than mere spectators.

SEA LIFE features a dramatic walkthrough underwater see-through tunnel where it often seems that you are the captive creature while the fish swim freely watching you rather than the other way round.

Gone are the gallery-style collections of oblong tanks, and in their place displays of all shapes and sizes offering astonishingly close views of an array of creatures through windows which are flat, curved and even bubble-shaped!

Increasing awareness of the importance of safeguarding the seas and their inhabitants is an integral element of the SEA LIFE experience, and the companys marine experts are actively involved in a wide range of research, rescue and conservation endeavours.

Times: Daily at 10am

Adult - 15-59 years

Child - 3-14 years

Concession - Students 15-26 years and Seniors 60+

Please go to the fast track / pre-booked tickets entrance and exchange voucher for original tickets at the counter.

The SEA LIFE is a spectacular attraction in which visitors feel themselves immersed in the marine environment rather than mere spectators.

SEA LIFE features a dramatic walkthrough underwater see-through tunnel where it often seems that you are the captive creature whil