Culture type
The Curator
You booked this in March.
You plan a trip around a programme, not the other way round. Tickets are bought the week they go on sale, the museum days are allocated before the flights and there is a document. Everybody who travels with you benefits and nobody admits it.
Your evening
The premiere you booked nine months ago, followed by one drink and an early night because the museum opens at nine.
Your room
If you only book one thing this year, make it Teatro alla Scala in Milan: the most demanding audience in opera sits in the cheapest seats, right at the top.
Your rooms
Five bookings for this type
Opera houseStanding roomVienna · Ringstrasse
Wiener Staatsoper
Fifty different operas a season and five hundred standing places every night
MuseumIconVienna · Ringstrasse
Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Habsburg collection in a purpose-built palace, with the largest group of Bruegels in the world
LandmarkBook aheadMilan · Santa Maria delle Grazie
The Last Supper
Fifteen minutes, twenty-five people, one wall that has been failing since the day it dried
Opera houseIconVenice · San Marco
Teatro La Fenice
The phoenix: burnt to the ground in 1774, 1836 and 1996, rebuilt exactly each time
Concert hallStanding roomVienna · Karlsplatz
Musikverein
The Golden Hall, widely held to be the finest-sounding concert room ever built