Day 1 

Meet at Clayton Whites Hotel (where else?) in the centre of the festival city. Welcome drinks and dinner will be taken in the hotel.

Day 2 

During the day there is a lunchtime recital and a matinee performance of Alberto Caruso’s The Master as part of the festival. Please indicate if you want tickets to extra performances

LA TEMPESTA – Fromental Halévy  

Conductor: Francesco Cilluffo 

Director: Roberto Catalano

Miranda Hila Baggio Alonzo Rory Musgrave Fernando Andrew Morstein

Prospero Nikolay Zemlianskikh 

Sicorace Emma Jüngling

Antonio Richard Shaffrey 

Calibano Giorgi Manoshvili Ariele Jade Phoenix

Day 3 

Friday’s matinee performance is Cinderella (2013) by the child prodigy composer Alma Deutscher. Please indicate if you want tickets to extra performances

Tonight’s opera has been praised for its ‘dreamy atmosphere and aromatic orchestration’. The hard-to-please Héctor Berlioz was quick to admire Lalla Roukh and it was almost instantly recognised as the composer’s masterpiece.

LALLA-ROUKH -Félicien David 

Conductor: Steven White Director: Orpha Phelan 

Set & Costume Designer: Madeleine Boyd

Lalla-Roukh Karen Garde Azabal Nourreddin Pablo Bemsch 

Narrator Lorcan Cranitch

Baskir Ben McAteer Bakbara Emyr Wyn Jones Kaboul Thomas D Hopkinson Mirza Niamh O’Sullivan

Day 4 

A matinee performance of The Spectre Knight by Alfred Cellier - a one-act comedy with libretto by W S Gilbert.

An early dinner precedes tonight’s performance of Dvořák ’s final opera based on Gerusalemme Liberata.

ARMIDA – Dvořák Conducto: Norbert Baxa 

Director: Hartmut Schörghofer

King Hydraoth Jozef Benci Armida Jennifer Davis Ismen Stanislav Kuflyuk Petr Jan Hnyk

Bohumir Rory Dunne Rinald Gerard Schneider Muezin Sean Boylan

Day 5 

Your tour manager will be available to assist with departure after breakfast

Flights are not included

2-6 November

£1745 per person

(2 people sharing)

£170 Single supplement (double for sole use)

Deposit £450

Accommodation

Clayton Whites Hotel

Group Size

Between 5 and 10 people

What’s included

Tickets to three operas 

Good seats in the stalls.

Entry to museums 

Dinner on two evenings