In its 2018–19 season, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will be visiting fifteen countries, giving a total of twenty-five concerts outside the Netherlands, the organization says in a press release.
The main part of the touring program is reserved for the RCO’s project RCO meets Europe with performances in Cyprus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Croatia. Since 2016 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will have visited all twenty-eight member states of the European Union, performing one work in each country with a local youth orchestra (Side by Side). By the end of the tour, the orchestra will have visited six countries for the first time: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia.
Also in the 2018/19 season, there will be an extensive tour of the United States of America.
