Opera & Wine Tours

These superb escorted Opera tours are combinations of days spent exploring the vineyards with leisurely lunches at leading wine estates and evenings spent attending Opera performances at world famous venues with very good seats! There are no early starts on the Opera holidays and there is time to explore the very beautiful cities you are staying in.

Each summer, the most famous Opera Festival in Italy is held at Verona in the Roman Arena. It's worth attending a performance even if you are not a huge Opera fan, to enjoy the spectacle as thousands of people gather excitedly and light their candles as the moon drops behind the stage. The atmosphere makes for an unforgettable experience.

In 2009 we feature the Puccini Festival & Tuscan Wine tour which includes an Opera ticket to see La Boheme, as well as a gala dinner with the cast after the performance. With enormous pleasure we launch our Vienna opera and wine tour. The tour has a superb line up of Operas with exceptional casts. We have chosen these dates as The Staatsoper (the Austrian State Opera House) is showing La Traviata, with Anna Netrebko; Tosca with Jonas Kaufman and Catherine Naglestad; and Madama Butterfly with the Chinese soprano Hui He.

Arblaster & Clarke also offer bespoke Opera holidays featuring the Classic Italian Opera houses such as La Scala, Milan and La Fenice, Venice. We have access to first category seats and boxes before they come on sale to the general public, as well as tickets to otherwise 'sold out' performances.

Tours

Puccini Festival & Tuscan Wine

9 - 12 July 2009

Arblaster and Clarke are very pleased to offer this Opera and Wine tour based in Lucca, Tuscany, featuring the Puccini festival at Torre del Lago. Most years since 1930, a stage has been set up by the Massaciuccoli Lake to h...

Verona Opera & Wine

16 - 19 July 2009

On this superb Opera and Wine tour we are based in the centre of the lovely city of Verona with it’s magnificent Roman Arena, 14th century Castelvecchio, renaissance buildings and the famous balcony claimed to feature in Rome...

Rome Opera & Wine

30 July - 2 August 2009

Enjoy a performnce of Bizet's Carmen, set amongst the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. This is a highly atmospheric, relatively small venue where productions are generally fairly traditional and performances are of high...

Vienna Wine & Opera

11 - 14 May 2009

The tour has a superb line up of Operas with exceptional casts. We have chosen these dates as The Staatsoper (the Austrian State Opera House) is showing La Traviata, with Anna Netrebko; Tosca with Jonas Kaufman and Catherine N...

Independent Opera, La Fenice, Venice

Departures throughout the year.

Arblaster & Clarke offer tailor-made, unescorted breaks all with first class Opera tickets to the great Italian Opera house La Fenice with hotel accommodation in central Venice 4* hotel within easy walking distance of the Opera...

Opera in Milan at La Scala

Departures throughout the year.

Arblaster & Clarke offer independent tailor-made opera holidays with tickets to the classic Italian Opera house Teatro alla Scala in Milan. We have access to the best seats and boxes and even to tickets to otherwise 'so...

Opera & Wine in Rome Carmen with Andrea Bocelli

27 - 30 June 2008

The famous tenor Andrea Bocelli and Hungarian mezzo Ildiko Komlosi star in Bizet’s Carmen at the Teatro dell’ Opera, Rome. Our chosen hotel, the beautiful Bernini Bristol (5* luxe) is in the heart of The Eternal City an...

Independent Opera - Andrea Bocelli in Carmen

27 - 30 June 2008

Arblaster & Clarke Independent Opera Offers - Andrea Bocelli in Carmen Arblaster & Clarke have only a handful of much sought after tickets to what promises to be a fabulous evening of Opera, starring Andrea Bocelli. Andrea w...

La Scala, Milan, Cosi Fan Tutte

14 - 17 February 2008, 29 October - 1 November 2008

This superb escorted tour features Opera at La Scala, Milan, arguably the greatest Opera venue in the world, (with 1st category tickets) and tastings of the great wines of Northern italy over superb meals in and around Milan. ...

Opera & Wine - Venice & Milan

13 - 17 December 2007

At La Fenice the tour features Puccini's Turandot with its great arias and complex orchestration. Turandot was in fact first performed at La Scala and here we have a magnificent production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Wagner...

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