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Shropshire Country Houses
Munich Opera Festival
Exclusive access to the county’s hidden gems
World-class opera, chamber music and song recitals
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7 – 12 July 2014
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ACE Cultural Tours / aceculturaltours.co.uk / +44 (0)1223 841 055
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£1,195 per person to include breakfast, four lunches and all dinners and visits. Single supplement £120
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Roger White (Christ’s 1969), architectural historian and former Secretary of the Georgian Group and Garden History Society.
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£2,790 including flights from London. Single supplement £190. Price includes breakfast, four dinners, one lunch, seven performances and visits
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Professor John Deathridge, King Edward Professor of Music at King’s College London.
The glorious countryside around Ludlow is the setting for the splendid country houses that are the main focus of this tour. The emphasis will be on private houses that are not generally open to the public, and highlights include Acton Round, a delectable Queen Anne doll’s-house of a building; Mawley Hall, with one of the finest baroque interiors in England; Oakly Park and Millichope Park, both with notable Greek Revival interiors; and High Victorian Stokesay Court, the largest country house in the county, where we will have dinner. We venture into Herefordshire to see Berrington Hall, with its exquisite neoclassical interiors, together with a private visit to the remarkable modern folly garden at Elton Hall. Ludlow itself, which John Betjeman described as ‘probably the loveliest town in England’, will be seen on a walking tour, during which Sir Keith Thomas (former President of Corpus Christi, Oxford) and Lady Thomas will show the party their fascinating house over the town’s medieval Broad Gate. We will stay at Ludlow’s Clive Hotel and enjoy some refreshments and meals as guests of the owners of the private houses we visit.
21 – 27 July 2014 ACE Cultural Tours / aceculturaltours.co.uk / +44 (0)1223 841 055
Every July since 1875 Munich’s finest theatres are filled with dynamic opera performances, song recitals and evocative chamber music concerts. We will see the Bavarian State Opera and Orchestra performing Mozart’s Figaro with Gerald Finley in the title role as well as two comedic operas by Richard Strauss in his 150th anniversary year: Ariadne auf Naxos and Der Rosenkavalier. In the luxurious surroundings of the Rococo Cuvilliés Theatre, where Mozart’s Idomeneo was first performed, we will enjoy chamber music by Isang Yun and Mozart, and in the Prince Regent’s Theatre, originally built as a festival hall for Richard Wagner, we will hear pieces by Bellini, Verdi and Wagner as well as the voice of the renowned German bass René Pape. Our musical tour is embellished with visits including Baroque Nymphenburg Palace, where Mozart performed his first public recital, and Schloss Herrenchiemsee, designed by Wagner’s great admirer, King Ludwig II.