Wexford Festival Opera Trip Dates : Monday 20 – Sunday 26 October 2008 Trip Price : £ 1,890 per person sharing in a double/twin room £ 180 single supplement deposit £ 300 per person Activity Level: Three country walking days, 2 to 3 hours daily, plus city walking in Dublin. How to book Home page Phone/Fax : +44-(0)1722-716 167 Download a PDF (468 kB) with trip details

For over fifty years the small Irish fishing port of Wexford has been a place of annual pilgrimage for opera lovers from all over the world. The Festival has been described as ‘a wonderful children’s party for adults’, so enjoyable are the musical events, the small and intimate venues and the exceptionally warm hospitality of the people of Wexford. Our seven day visit to southeast Ireland encompasses 3 opera performances (always of rarely heard works) and a lunchtime recital in Wexford, plus a theatre performance and the celebrated ‘Literary Pub Crawl’ in Dublin. Walks in the scenic Wicklow mountains and along a deserted white sand beach are complemented by visits to an early monastic site, the magnificent formal gardens at Powerscourt and the James Joyce Museum in the Martello Tower at Sandycove. Eschewing lunchtime picnics in autumn, we enjoy Guinness and smoked salmon sandwiches or delicious home made soups in traditional Irish pubs. Wonderfully comfortable 4 star country house hotels and a 5 star Georgian townhouse in the heart of historic Dublin are ideal bases from which to explore. This year, on the 57^th anniversary of the festival, and in the state-of-the-art, completely rebuilt Theatre Royal, we attend performances of the following operas: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov – ‘Snegurochka – The Snow Maiden’ Richard Rodney Bennett – ‘The Mines of Sulphur’ Carlo Pedrotti – ‘Tutti in Maschera – Everyone in Disguise’