Post Christmas & New Years Packages
Stay Midweek from €95 bed & breakfast per person sharing per nightThis years festival will run from Saturday 16, October 2010 to Sunday, 30th October 2010 showing three fabulous operas.
Virginia by Saverio Mercadante (1795 - 1870)
The Golden Ticket by Peter Ashe (b.1961) & Donald Sturrock (b.1961)
Hubricka (The Kiss) by Bedrich Smetana (1824 -1884)
The Golden TicketThe Golden Ticket, based on Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is the second opera by Iowa-born composer, Peter Ash.
Charlie Bucket, the boy hero, lives in poverty with his aged and infirm grandparents and dreams of winning one of five golden tickets that Willy Wonka, the confectionery wizard, has hidden in his chocolate bars. How Charlie succeeds in his quest to be one of the lucky winners and how his life is changed more wonderfully that he could ever imagined is told in a melody-based opera full of humour, wit and virtuosity.
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