Dedicated to mechanical music-producing items such as music boxes, player pianos, phonographs and pneumatic organs, Museu da Música Mecânica (Quinta do Rei-Rua dos Alegrias, Palmela, Portugal; phone +351 212 381 083, museudamusicamecanica.com/en), about 16 miles southeast of Lisbon, has more than 600 items on display. Guests can listen to the music produced by the antique machines.
Open 2:30-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sun. €6 (near $6.50), adult, or €4, senior.
14-day, 13-night dance tour, May 7-20, 2020. Highlights: In Málaga, Málaga Cathedral, Picasso Museum, tapas tour, tango lesson/wine tasting in Ronda/in Cádiz, dance lesson at Peña Flamenca La Perla/Doñana National Park/in Seville, Museum of Flamenco Dance/in Córdoba, Mosque-Cathedral, flamenco workshop/olive oil tasting near Baeza/in Granada, the Alhambra, Albaicin Quarter souk, guitar workshop. $3,465 ppdo. Single supp., $795. Jim Gold International (Teaneck, NJ; 201/836-0362, www.jimgold.com).
Single travelers in Sydney or Melbourne, Australia, can sign up with Opera for One to join a group of fellow single opera junkies before the show, meet their opera guide and mingle over canapes and drinks before being seated in the same section.
Opera for One tickets are not available for all shows. To see available dates and book tickets (at the B Reserve level), visit opera.org.au/buytickets/opera-for-one. A Melbourne opera ticket costs AUD144 (near $102). Sydney ticket prices were unavailable at press time.
