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Visit to Glyndebourne October 2012

We have organized a three day trip to include a visit to Glyndebourne in October when productions are likely to be Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Dvorak's Rusalka.  The  ticket prices are to be confirmed but last year’s tickets were £60.

Day 1
We depart from our designated pick up points and en route to Brighton we stop at the Calke Abbey in Derbyshire. We will have free time here for lunch. Afterwards we travel to the Legacy White Heart Hotel (or similar), where we stay 2 nights on a half board basis.

Day 2

Our Blue Badge guide meets us at our hotel this morning and accompanies us on our full day excursion. We firstly visit Charleston House. Charleston, the home of the artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Woolf), became the country meeting place for the group of writers, artists and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. We continue to Anne of Cleves House. Anne of Cleves House formed part of her divorce settlement from Henry VIII in 1541, although she never actually lived there. The 16th century timber framed Wealden hall house contains wide ranging collections of Sussex interest. Tonight we visit Glyndebourne for the opera.

Day 3

En route home we visit the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Founded in 1683, the Ashmolean is Britain’s first public museum and home to the University of Oxford’s world class collection of art and archaeology. We can choose to take lunch in the Museum or elsewhere, as the Museum is in the centre of the city. We will have free time prior to travelling back to our original pick up points.

The price has yet to be determined, but is likely to be in the region of £270 per person in shared rooms with a supplement for single occupancy, with a small number of single rooms also available.  These prices exclude admission to Glyndebourne, other places of interest and gratuities.  Entry to the Ashmolean Museum is free.

Marriage of Figaro