HOLIDAYS FOR FRIENDS OF BIF

WITH JOHN WHIBLEY’S ‘HOLIDAYS WITH MUSIC’

So far 2023 has seen us enjoying opera holidays in Amsterdam, Dresden and Hamburg and one of our groups is just back from Venice and Trieste where they enjoyed seeing Ernani at La Fenice and Romeo & Juliet at the opera house in Trieste.

Full details of our 2023 opera holidays are in our Summer/Autumn brochure –please ask us for a copy. We continue to make a contribution towards Friends fundraising for each opera holiday booked by a Friend of BIF and we are continuing our offer £50 towards any of the holidays if you send in a copy of this article with your booking form.

Please feel free to get in touch with us by email john@whibley.co.uk 01663 746578 and we’ll happily send you further info about opera holidays.

2023 Opera Holidays

• Ring in Budapest 14 – 19 June

The acclaimed annual semi-staged production at Müpa

• Opera at Garsington and Longborough 28 June – 2 July

Ariadne and Bartered Bride at Garsington; L’Elisir at Longborough

• Ring in Sofia 7 – 14 July

A brand new production with stunning Bulgarian singers

• Savonlinna Opera Festival 16 – 20 July

Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, The Barber of Seville, and The Magic Flute

• Verdi Festival in Parma 20 – 26 September

I Lombardi, Falstaff (chamber version) Il Trovatore and Requiem

• Wexford Opera Festival 31 October – 4 November

Donizetti: Zoraida di Granata, Erlanger: L’Aube Rouge, Tutino: La Ciociara

• Autumn at Glyndebourne 10 – 13 November

L’Elisir d’amore and Don Giovanni

• Opera in Vienna – early December

Performaces tbc

• Christmas Oratorio in Leipzig 14 – 18 December

La bohème, Magic Flute plus Christmas Oratorio in the Thomaskirche

SNEAK PEEK!

Director Jack Furness has been facing the elements whilst preparing for Il re pastore. He has shared this image of himself filming in Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons) last month. See the footage in Mozart’s Il re pastore this July. It looks to be an exciting production!