Location: Leipzig
Date: Wednesday 26 June – Monday 1 July 2019
Price: Cost per person: £1950 (based on 2 people sharing) Single room supplement: £140
Company: John Whibley ‘Holidays with Music’
Telephone: 01663 746578
Two opera at Leipzig Opera House and a gala concert in the park with the Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons, conductor; Kristine Opolais, soprano and Thomas Hampson, baritone Smetana:
Bartered Bride – Christoph Gedschold, conductor; Christian von Götz, director. Cast includes: Sandra Maxheimer, Olena Tokar, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Sandra Fechner, Bianca Tognocchi, Franz Xaver Schlecht, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Sebastian Pilgrim, Martin Petzold
Dvorak: Rusalka – Christoph Gedschold, conductor; Michiel Dijkema, director. Cast includes: Olena Tokar, Karin Lovlius, Kathrin Göring, Aneta Rucková, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Sandra Maxheimer, Sandra Fechner, Patrick Vogel, Tuomas Pursio, Jonathan Michie, Dan Korlström
We will stay in the Radisson Blu Leipzig on Augustusplatz, next to the Opera House. There will be a guided tour of Leipzig and a tour of the musical instrument collection at the Grazzi Museum Flights will be available from Manchester and London Heathrow to Leipzig via Munich or Frankfurt