Join us for three nights in London at the end of February when (we hope!) spring may be almost with us.
Our visit starts with a gala dinner at a private London club in the heart of Mayfair. On Friday night we join Vasily Petrenko to hear him conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme including Scheherazade and Sir Edward Elgar's cello concerto and on Saturday evening we have top price stalls seats at for The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden for Christopher Wheeldon's highly praised production of The Winters Tale (see the 4* review from the Telegraph below). During our stay we have reserved entrance to Kensington Palace on Friday morning with the opportunity to see the State Rooms and the Diana:Her Fashion Story exhibition.
We hope you will join us for a weekend with all the usual Maestro! inclusions:
- standard class rail travel from your Northwest station
- three nights bed & buffet breakfast at the 4* Copthorne Tara in the heart of Kensington
- top price tickets for the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance conducted by Vasily Petrenko
- top price stalls tickets for the Royal Ballet production of The Winters Tale on the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- two 3 course pre-performance dinners with wine
- a gala dinner at a private London club in the heart of Mayfair
- timed entry tickets for the Diana:Her Fashion Story at Kensington Palace
- all transfers within London
The cost is £845 per person sharing a twin or double room and £995 for sole use of a double room.
If you have a senior rail card you can deduct £20 and if you want to make your own way to London deduct £80. Deposit is £250 per person
The Winters Tale 4* review from the Daily Telegraph Three or four years ago, when Nick Hytner – then the head of the National Theatre – casually suggested to Christopher Wheeldon that he turn The Winter’s Tale into a ballet, a meeker (or just plain saner) choreographer would have replied, “You must be joking.”
But thank heavens he didn’t, for the Yeovil-born whizz managed to transform Shakespeare’s difficult late play, which U-turns awkwardly from tragedy to comedy, into the finest and most important, new full-evening ballet in recent memory. Finest, because it in fact embraces and exploits that central contradiction in the play, walking an impeccable, often thrilling and always marvellously entertaining tightrope between light and dark, levity and profundity, classicism and modernity, and embracing pretty much every human emotion along the way. And important, because it showed, at a stroke, that there was a future for brand-new, serious-minded, full-evening ballets with narrative complexity.
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Andreas Brantelid cello
- Stravinsky: Le chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale)
- Elgar: Cello Concerto
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade