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Music in Palladian Villas - The finest Italian Early Music in spectacular villas in the Veneto
6
days
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A$6,870
Book today with a deposit of
A$1,031
7th - 12th June 2027
Festival highlights
- Exquisite Italian Early Music in some of the finest Palladian masterpieces in the Veneto, including the breathtaking Teatro Olimpico.
- An exceptional line-up includes Nardus Williams, Andreas Scholl, Solomon’s Knot and il Pomo d’Oro, as well as Accademia Bizantina, La Venexiana and Theatro dei Cervelli.
- Repertoire ranges from Monteverdi madrigals and Strozzi songs to Vivaldi’s deeply emotive 'Stabat Mater' and the dazzling fireworks of Porpora’s 'Mitridate'.
- Stay throughout in or near Vicenza, the quiet jewel of the Veneto – prosperous, well-preserved and a UNESCO World Heritage site due to the beauty of its Renaissance architecture.
- Daily talks on the music by Professor John Bryan; while expert art and architectural historians bring the stunning concert venues to life, and lead visits to other villas in the region.
The Veneto stands as one of the supreme cultural centres of Renaissance and Baroque Italy.
It was here that Andrea Palladio (1508–80) transformed the ancient classical tradition into something entirely new, and the great patrician and merchant families of Venice were quick to commission him. Looking to the fertile plains of the terraferma for both agricultural investment and civilised retreat, they created houses that were simultaneously working estates and temples of cultured leisure – places designed for the pleasures of the mind and the senses: conversation, poetry, fine food, and above all, music.
No art form was more central to villa life than music. The most immediately transporting of the arts, in its manifold variety of mood and meaning, it accompanied every aspect of that rural idyll – and happily, the great age of the villa, from the middle of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, coincides precisely with the great age of music in Venice and the Veneto. It is this magnificent convergence of architecture and music that lies at the heart of our festival.
The formula we have pioneered at Martin Randall Travel – bringing together exceptional musicians with incomparable buildings – lends itself nowhere more naturally than to the villas of the Veneto. With seven performances in some of the finest masterpieces Palladio ever designed, this is a programme I am particularly proud of.
Nardus Williams and Elizabeth Kenny open the festival with a superb Strozzi programme in the frescoed Villa Caldogno, followed the same evening by a dramatic journey through Monteverdi’s madrigals, culminating with Il Combattimento – fierce, theatrical and unmissable – performed in the spectacular Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza.
The next day takes us out into the rolling countryside and past fertile plains to Palladio’s first villa – Godi Malinverni – for a concert by the outstanding Solomon’s Knot. Exciting new ensemble Ayres Extemporae then perform works by Bach and his Italian forebears in the majestic Villa Contarini Camerini.
Perched high on a hilltop, La Rocca Pisana was inspired by Palladio’s La Rotonda. Here Theatro dei Cervelli animate the space with a creative programme of Cavalli, Monteverdi and others. That evening we move to a darker mood, as Accademia Bizantina and renowned counter-tenor Andreas Scholl perform a moving programme including Vivaldi’s intensely poignant Stabat Mater.
The festival concludes with Porpora’s Mitridate in the dramatic setting of the Teatro Olimpico, brought to us by acclaimed ensemble il Pomo d’Oro. With dazzling arias originally intended for Farinelli, this is a fitting culmination to an unforgettable union of music and place.
Discover the place
Vicenza is architecturally the most distinguished and homogeneous city in northern Italy, much of its fabric consisting of 16th-century aristocratic residences.
Situated on the Bacchiglione river at the foot of the Berici Hills, midway between Venice and Verona, it is the quiet jewel of the Veneto – prosperous, well-preserved and less visited than its more famous neighbours. Our base for this festival, it sits at the heart of Palladio’s world: the villas of the Veneto radiate outwards from the city across the surrounding plains and hills, making it the natural starting point for any exploration of his work.
Andrea Palladio spent most of his life here; his buildings rising with easy familiarity among the palaces, loggias and arcaded streets of a city that has changed remarkably little since he knew it. His creations include the town hall (Basilica Palladiana), a theatre of unparalleled ambition (Teatro Olimpico), and several grand private houses. Others are scattered across the Veneto – some intimate, some palatial, but all works of genius whose influence stretched far into the future.
In 16th-century Italy a villa was first and foremost a farm, and in the Veneto agriculture had become a serious business for the city-based mercantile aristocracy. As Venice’s maritime empire declined in the face of Ottoman expansion, its great families turned instead landward, pouring their capital into the rich agricultural estates of the Veneto – and it was Palladio who gave their ambitions architectural form.
His was an aesthetic of a very particular kind. Designing for a clientele who – whether princes of commerce, soldier-aristocrats or gentlemen of leisure – shared an intense admiration for ancient Rome, Palladio was the first architect regularly to apply the colonnaded temple front to secular buildings. Practicality and beauty were inseparable were inseparable in everything he designed. His patrons were formed by humanist learning, and in his work they recognised an ideal made tangible.
Nor was his genius merely a matter of surface ornament. Even in his most pared-down buildings there is a geometric order arising from sophisticated systems of proportion and an unerring sense of design. These are spaces that speak – and it is our privilege, in this festival, to fill them with music.
Brochure
Musicians
Programme
Fly from London to Venice, or make your own way independently. Coach transfer to Vicenza.
The city of Vicenza is an architectural jewel of the Italian Renaissaince and was home to its most famous architect, Palladio. Palladio’s presence is felt throughout the city with the Basilica Palladiana dominating the city scape, numerous palazzi, and one of the festival’s key concert venues; Palladio’s Renaissance theatre, the Teatro Olimpico.
There is some free time to become acquainted with Vicenza.
Settle into your chosen hotel before a drinks reception and dinner.
There is a morning lecture on the music before setting off by coach or minibus to Villa Caldogno where the first concert of the festival takes place.
Due to the size of the hall, the concert is performed twice today, and the audience split – half to attend in the morning, the other half in the early afternoon.
If attending the morning concert, return to Vicenza for an independent lunch, with optional visits taking place later that afternoon; if your concert takes place in the afternoon, optional visits are available in the morning, followed by an independent lunch.
Villa Caldogno, attributed to Palladio and built between 1540–1570 for the Caldogno merchant family, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The villa’s magnificent central salon, where the concerts take place, is decorated with remarkable Renaissance frescoes depicting aristocratic entertainments, including intimate musica da camera performances by courtesans.
Concert, 11.00am or 2.15pm
Villa Caldogno, Caldogno
Strozzi & Friends
Nardus Williams soprano
Elizabeth Kenny theorbo
Nardus Williams and Elizabeth Kenny bring the voice of “La virtuosa cantatrice” to life in a programme exploring the extraordinary cross currents of vocal writing that blew across northern Italy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Venice in particular with its position as a hub of international trade, became a hotbed of artistic innovation. Barbara Strozzi performed her own works in private, exclusive settings but her published works and her often ironical social commentary carried her influence much further.
Before her, composers such as Maddalena Casulana explored the female voice in ensemble and solo songs. Monteverdi, Cavalli, and later, Antonio Vivaldi, all working in Venice, showed that the power of virtuoso singing, whether underpinned by a single plucked instrument or by a whole orchestra, could magnetise an audience with stories in sound.
Dinner is included for all before the evening performance.
Teatro Olimpico, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1580, was his final masterpiece and the first purpose-built indoor theatre of the modern age. Inspired by the grandeur of Ancient Roman theatres yet adapted for Renaissance audiences, it remains one of the world’s most extraordinary performance spaces.
Completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, the theatre is famed for its breathtaking illusionistic stage set: a labyrinth of perspectival streets created for the first production of Oedipus Rex. Astonishingly preserved, the Teatro Olimpico offers audiences the rare experience of entering a living vision of the ideal Renaissance city.
Concert, 8.30pm
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
La Venexiana
Gabriele Palomba conductor
A musical transformation in context: Monteverdi believed he had achieved something unique in Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, published in his Eighth Book of Madrigals of 1638. Here he created music that matched itself to the intense action of the battle and required his madrigal performers to act as well as sing, calling it stile concitato.
This evening’s programme builds us up to Il combattimento through successive excerpts from his Third to Seventh books of Madrigals, showing the thrilling way in which Monteverdi’s expressive language emerged over the course of several decades and crystallised following his arrival in Venice.
Once again the audience is split today due to the intimate size of the concert venues.
The first group attends a morning concert at Villa Godi Malinverni, and remains there for lunch. In the afternoon, there is an afternoon concert in Villa Contarini Camerini before returning to Vicenza. The second group attends a morning concert in Villa Contarini Camerini before travelling to Villa Godi Malinverni for lunch, then remains there for the afternoon concert.
Nestling in foothills twenty miles north of Vicenza, the Villa Godi Malinverni is the earliest major villa design attributable to Andrea Palladio. The monumentality of its impact arises from its simple, almost cuboid massing and sophisticated set of proportions. Inside it is richly frescoed by Giovanni Battista Zelotti. The concert is by kind permission of Christian G. Malinverni.
Concert, 11.30am or 3.30pm:
Villa Godi Malinverni
Solomon’s Knot
Programme to be confirmed.
The Contarini were one of the richest and most powerful of Venetian clans, and their villa at Piazzola sul Brenta spreads around courts and gardens and canals with commensurate splendour. At its heart is a villa of the 1540s, controversially attributed to Palladio, but it was much extended and ornamented in several campaigns in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, resulting in the most Baroque of the great villas of the Veneto. The concert takes place in a purpose-built music room.
Concert, 10.30am or 4.15pm:
Villa Contarini Camerini
Bach & Italy
Ayres Extemporae
Arcangelo Corelli’s string music looms large in the late seventeenth century, miraculously balancing grace, harmonic ingenuity and theatricality in pieces such as the F major Sonata Op.5 No.10 in this programme. Contemporary Italian composers could not escape his influence: Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli’s Sonata da Camera No.11 follows Corelli closely. But even international musicians such as Johann Georg Pisendel studied his methods, shown by his Violin Sonata in C minor. J.S. Bach was clearly impressed too, as we will hear in two of his sonatas for viola da gamba BWV1028 and 1029, where the Italian sound is layered with his own stunning counterpoint.
Coaches return to Vicenza in time for an independent dinner, or an optional dinner if you choose to attend.
There is a morning lecture on the music.
Once again, the audience is split today, with one group attending a morning concert in Villa Pisana La Rocca and the other in the afternoon.
With its striking hilltop site, La Rocca (designed 1576) is perhaps the most famous of Italian Palladian villas not by Palladio himself, being the creation of his best pupil and assistant, Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548–1616). Open to the elements through an oculus in the dome and intended only for occasional entertainments, this remarkable building approaches the status of pure architecture, untrammelled by functional compromises. It remains privately owned.
Concert, 11.00am or 3.00pm:
Villa Pisana La Rocca
Scenes of a Theatrical Nature
Theatro dei Cervelli
Andrés Locatelli director
This concert is a showcase for the full emotional spectrum and creative ferment of early seventeenth-century Venetian secular music. The pieces range from Claudio Monteverdi’s later madrigals, offering multiple perspectives on sensual and passionate love, to playful canzoni and scherzi musicali by Tarquinio Merula; from Biagio Marini’s extravagant and innovative instrumental sonatas to dramatic and comic excerpts of stage works by Francesco Cavalli and Monteverdi.
Dinner is independent this evening, unless you choose to attend one of our optional dinners.
The Church of St Filippo Neri is situated in Corso Palladio, the main street of Vicenza. Though it was built in 1730, a century and a half after Palladio’s death, and the façade was added a hundred years after that, essentially it is Palladian in style, demonstrating the extraordinary longevity of the great architect’s influence in the Veneto.
Concert, 9.00pm:
Chiesa di San Filippo Neri
Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater
Accademia Bizantina
Alessandro Tampieri director
Andreas Scholl counter-tenor
This is a performance of Marian devotion, with all of the pieces referring to The Virgin. The grandeur of Porpora’s The Triumph of Divine Justice is matched by the intimacy of two Vinci oratorios, expressing Mary’s perspective in the first person, a suffering that is also soulfully evoked in Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and Angelo Ragazzi’s instrumental Sonata in F minor. At the other end of the spectrum, we have the charming classical sound of Pasquale Anfossi’s Salve Regina, and Pergolesi’s dazzling Violin Concerto in B-flat major rounding out the programme.
There is a morning lecture on the music before free time in Vicenza, or a range of optional visits and walks to choose from.
A gala dinner is included for all before the evening performance.
Opera, 7.30pm
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza
Poropora’s Mitridate
il Pomo d’Oro
Andrea Buccarella conductor
Valerio Contaldo Mitridate
Nicola Porpora’s opera Mitridate was adapted for London in 1736, and revolves around the political and romantic intrigues between the King and his sons. Porpora is one of those historical figures who seem to have known everyone: he worked with the legendary poet Pietro Metastasio, he gave the young freelancer Joseph Haydn work, and he was the teacher of Farinelli, one of the greatest singers in the history of opera. His music is filled with thrilling eighteenth-century fireworks, especially in the arias that were intended for Farinelli to sing.
Please note this is a concert performance.
Coaches take participants to Venice or Verona airport. Fly to London or leave the festival independently.
Expert speaker
Professor John Bryan
Emeritus professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield, and a practising musician, he is a member of the Rose Consort of Viols and has performed with Musica Antiqua. An artistic adviser to York Early Music Festival, he founded the North East Early Music Forum, is chair of the Viola da Gamba Society and has been guest conductor of York Opera and The Academy of St Olave's. His book Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music was published by Routledge in 2016. He has lectured on several previous Martin Randall Festivals.
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Practicalities
The price includes:
— Seven private concerts in historic and appropriate buildings.
— Accommodation for five nights – choose between four hotels.
— Breakfasts, one lunch, three dinners and interval drinks.
— Talks on the music by Professor John Bryan.
— Coach travel between the airport and Vicenza, and to concert venues when not reached on foot.
— All tips, taxes and admission charges.
— A detailed programme booklet.
— The assistance of festival staff.
Optional extras:
— A choice of pre- and post-festival tours.
— Arriving a day early in your festival hotel.
— Extra dinners, so that each evening is spent in the company of other participants. Details will be available at a later stage.
— A range of walks and visits led by art historians. Details will be available at a later stage.
Antico Hotel (4*), price per person:
Arriving 6 June
Two sharing:
Classic • $7,110
Superior • $7,450
Junior Suite • $7,990
Single occupancy:
Classic • $7,720
Superior • $8,100
Junior Suite • $8,540
Arriving 7 June
Two sharing:
Classic • $6,870
Superior • $7,170
Junior Suite • $7,650
Single occupancy:
Classic • $7,400
Superior • $7,720
Junior Suite • $8,060
Glam Boutique(4*), price per person:
Arriving 6 June
Two sharing:
Deluxe • $7,870
Suite • $8,690
Single occupancy:
Superior • $8,370
Deluxe • $9,050
Suite • $9,630
Arriving 7 June
Two sharing:
Deluxe • $7,590
Suite • $8,330
Single occupancy:
Standard • $7,760
Superior • $7,990
Deluxe • $8,610
Suite • $9,070
Campo Marzio (4*), price per person:
Arriving 6 June
Two sharing:
Deluxe • $8,720
Junior Suite • $9,310
Suite • $10,000
Single occupancy:
Premium • $9,770
Deluxe • $9,980
Arriving 7 June
Two sharing:
Deluxe • $8,420
Junior Suite • $8,930
Suite • $9,580
Single occupancy:
Premium • $9,290
Deluxe • $9,480
Villa Michelangelo (4*), price per person:
Arriving 6 June
Two sharing:
Classic • $9,160
Superior • $9,470
Deluxe • $9,850
Suite Duplex • $10,950
Executive Suite • $11,430
Single occupancy:
Classic • $10,590
Superior • $10,910
Deluxe • $11,520
Arriving 7 June
Two sharing:
Classic • $8,780
Superior • $9,090
Deluxe • $9,430
Suite Duplex • $10,390
Executive Suite • $10,790
Single occupancy:
Classic • $10,030
Superior • $10,350
Deluxe • $10,900
Flights: if you choose to take one of the offered flight options, there is an additional cost of AUD$530 per person.
We offer several flight options for joining/leaving the festival.
There is also the option to fly out on 6 June, the day before the festival begins.
Or you can choose to make your own arrangements for travel to and from the festival.
Arriving a day early
Option 1 – Venice
6 June: London Heathrow to Venice (BA 602) departing at 12.25 and arriving at 15.40.
12 June: Venice to London Heathrow (BA 601) departing at 12.30 and arriving at 13.55.
Option 2 – Verona
6 June: London Gatwick to Verona (BA 2590) departing at 16.15 and arriving at 19.25.
12 June: Verona to London Gatwick (BA 2589) departing at 11.25 and arriving at 12.40.
Arriving on the first day of the festival
Option 3 – Venice
7 June: London Heathrow to Venice (BA 600) departing at 8.50 and arriving at 12.05.
12 June: Venice to London Heathrow (BA 601) departing at 12.30 and arriving at 13.55.
Option 4 – Venice
7 June: London Heathrow to Venice (BA 598) departing at 10.10 and arriving at 13.25.
12 June: Venice to London Heathrow (BA 603) departing at 14.20 and arriving at 15.45.
Option 5 – Venice
7 June: London Heathrow to Venice (BA 602) departing at 11.50 and arriving at 15.05.
12 June: Venice to London Heathrow (BA 603) departing at 14.20 and arriving at 15.45.
At the time of going to print, flight schedules have not yet been published for June 2027 so these times are indicative and subject to change.
Connecting flights
It may be possible to arrange connecting flights with British Airways from Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow, Aberdeen or Belfast.
The no flights option
If you are not joining our flight options, you are welcome to join our coach transfers if your travel arrangements coincide with any of these options.
Pre- and post-festival tours
If you are opting to include your travel, pre-festival tour participants return to the UK on travel Option 1 (returning to London Heathrow); post-festival tour participants fly out to Venice on Option 5 (from London Heathrow).
We charge for travel, if you are opting for it, as part of your pre- or post-festival tour booking. You therefore pay the ‘no flights’ price for the festival.
There is a choice of four 4-star hotels. Three are in the centre of Vicenza; our top category hotel, Villa Michaelangelo, is situated just outside the city.
These are the best hotels on in the area. They differ in size, architecture and style, and have Italian charm of varying degrees. They range from traditional, family-run to luxury resort hotels.
Coaches cannot enter the centre of Vicenza, and so stop a short walking distance outside the old city walls. Walking distances to the coach and two concert venues within Vicenza (Teatro Olimpico, Chiesa di San Filippo Neri) are indicated on the following pages.
Your choice of hotel is the sole determinant of the different prices.
There is also the option of arriving in your hotel a day before the festival begins (6 June).
Antico Hotel Vicenza (4*)
This small traditional hotel is situated right in the historical centre of Vicenza, with a roof terrace overlooking Palladio’s stunning Basilica Palladiana. It is traditional in style, with original red terrazzo flooring in some of the rooms, antique wooden furnishing, and red brocaded curtains.
There is a breakfast room and a bar but no restaurant. Good restaurants and other bars are located very nearby.
All rooms have air-conditioning, a minibar, safes, and Wifi.
Room types available:
Classic: Size: c. 16-18m2. All have showers (no baths); some have small balconies.
Superior: Size: c. 18-20m2. All have showers (no baths); some have small balconies.
Junior Suite: Size: c. 27m2. These have both a bath and a shower; views of the Duomo; some have small balconies
Glam Boutique Hotel (4*)
A small, recently remodelled hotel. The decor is striking, with darker hues and ‘contemporary’ (sometimes rather suggestive) artwork a key feature. It is well located and comfortable, even luxurious for a smaller-city Italian hotel.
There is a breakfast room, lounge, and a bar but no restaurant. Good restaurants and other bars are located very nearby.
All rooms have air-conditioning, a minibar, safes, and Wifi; all have showers, no baths.
Room types available:
Standard: Size: c. 15m2 with a queen-size bed.
Superior: Size: c. 17-18m2 with a double or twin bed.
Deluxe: Size: c. 18-22m2; rooms also have a coffee machine.
Suite: Size: c. 25m2. These have four-poster beds, smart TVs, a small sitting area and a coffee machine.
Hotel Campo Marzio
Just outside a city gate of Vicenza, the Campo Marzio is well located, comfortable and excellently managed. A fairly undistinguished exterior screens attractively furnished bedrooms of a good size. The rooms have been recently refurbished in a contemporary style and are bright and airy. Staff are particularly helpful and friendly.
There is a breakfast room and a bar but no restaurant. Good restaurants and other bars are located very nearby.
All rooms have air-conditioning, a minibar, safes, and Wifi; all have either a shower or a bath.
Room types available:
Deluxe: Size: c. 31m2. Light and airy rooms with seating area and a sofa.
Premium Rooftop: Size: c. 34m2. Located on the top (4th) floor of the hotel with a seating area and a sofa.
Junior Suite: Size: c. 36m2. Additional small drawing room next to the bedroom.
Suite: Size: c. 41m2. Additional small drawing room next to the bedroom.
Hotel Villa Michelangelo (4*)
Occupying an 18th-century villa, this smart, well-run hotel in the Berici Hills is approximately four miles from the centre of Vicenza. Surrounded by five hectares of gardens, its tranquil hilltop position affords fine views. All the rooms have recently been refurbished and updated. The rooms and public areas are bright and airy, and the breakfast room has stunning views across the valley.
All are decorated in classic style with restrained good taste. There is a good restaurant, a spa, and an indoor swimming pool with panoramic windows that open to allow the sense of being outdoors.
All rooms have air-conditioning, bathrobes, a minibar, safes, and Wifi; all have either a shower or a bath.
Room types available:
Classic: Size: c. 15-18m2.
Superior: Size: c. 18-22m2. These rooms also have a kettle.
Deluxe: Size: c. 22-25m2. These have views of the Villa’s grounds. Some are split over two floors.
Suite Duplex: Size: c. 32-40m2. Split over two floors with the bedroom on a mezzanine floor; great views. Includes fresh flowers, Illy espresso machine and kettle.
Executive Suite: Size: c. 30m2. These are not duplexes like the Suites, just cover one floor and have floor-to-ceiling windows with beautiful views over the grounds. Includes fresh flowers, Illy espresso machine and kettle.
There will be a range of art historical and architectural walks and visits to choose from on during the festival, carefully planned to fit around the concerts and meals, led by the following experts. Details and the opportunity to book these will be sent nearer the time.
Professor Fabrizio Nevola. Chair and Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, specialising in the urban and architectural history of Early Modern Italy. He has published widely including the award-winning Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City.
Dr Michael Douglas-Scott mixes scholarship with accessible discourse, wit with reasoned opinion, and is highly sought-after as an art history lecturer. He has written articles for Arte Veneta, Burlington Magazine and the Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes.
Dr Sarah Pearson. Architectural historian and writer specialising in Italy. Her MA focused on the architecture of Andrea Palladio. She has taught at the Universities of Reading and East Anglia, and currently lectures at Madingley Hall at the University of Cambridge.
This is a physically demanding festival where it is necessary to be able to walk for anything up to 25 minutes and at a pace which is unlikely to slow others down when moving together.
Three of the hotels are based in the centre of Vicenza where three of the seven concerts take place. The distances between the hotels and venues ranges from 300m–1.2km.
One hotel is situated outside of the city – participants are transferred to Vicenza by minibus and dropped as close to the concert venue as possible (for one of the venues this still entails a c. 700m walk).
Some of the concert venues outside of Vicenza are harder to reach and require uphill walking of around 15–20 minutes from where the coach will drop the group (depending on fitness), with no additional transportation possible. Taxis are not always readily available and sometimes cannot get close enough to the hotel or the concert venue to justify their use.
Many of the concert venues do not have a lift. You need to be averagely fit, sure-footed and able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without difficulty.
We are very happy to talk you through each day’s manoeuvres, as these differ festival to festival, to identify if it may be necessary to opt out at any point.
There are some days of the festival where you will cover a significant distance by coach.
If you have a medical condition or a disability which may affect your holiday or necessitate special arrangements being made for you, please discuss these with us before booking – or, if the condition develops or changes subsequently, as soon as possible before departure.
– Private. All the performances are planned and administered by us, and the audience consists exclusively of those who have taken the festival package.
– Seating. Specific seats are not reserved. You sit where you want.
– Audience size. There will be up to 220 participants on the festival. At the one venue which cannot accommodate this number, the concert is repeated.
– Acoustics. This festival is more concerned with locale and authenticity than with acoustic perfection. The venues may have idiosyncrasies or reverberations of the sort not found in modern concert halls.
– Changes. Musicians fall ill, venues may close for repairs, airlines alter schedules: there are many circumstances which could necessitate changes to the programme. We ask you to be understanding should they occur.
Before booking, please refer to Smartraveller to ensure you are happy with the travel advice for the destination(s) you are visiting. As a British company we follow the advice of the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.
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2027
Date
Speaker
Price
Date:
7th - 12th June 2027
Speaker:
Professor John Bryan
Price:
from A$6,870
(Based on two sharing)Testimonials
“It was a huge treat to hear the music in such extraordinary surroundings.
”
“World-class performers playing in wonderful and cleverly-selected venues.
”
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