by Ben Gunner | Jun 18, 2025 | Opera Club
Seamless travel, comfortable and centrally located hotels, top-tier opera performances, gastronomic delights, enriching guided tours and enough leisure time for individual sightseeing and exploring. Our recent Opera Club trip to Poland was all this and more. We all...
by Ben Gunner | May 19, 2025 | Opera Club
Prague, a stunning city with a fairy-tale charm that lives up to its reputation. We had our usual mix of cultural, musical and gastronomic delights. Knowledgeable guides gave us a good understanding of Prague and on our day excursion to Kutna Hora, a fascinating...
by Ben Gunner | Mar 5, 2024 | Opera Club
A visit to the Vienna Staatsoper isn’t just for the performance; it’s a rendezvous with history, tradition, and the profound beauty of human expression. Different productions can transform an opera and naturally members of the audience respond differently to...
by Ben Gunner | Dec 5, 2023 | Opera Club
In 1999, Michael Staff, Chair of Eastbourne Choral Society, for whom Musica Europa had recently arranged a concert tour to Switzerland, asked me to organise an opera tour to the Verdi Opera Festival in Budapest in January 2000 for him and a number of his opera lover...
by Ben Gunner | Nov 5, 2023 | Opera Club
Berlin was buzzing and has a wonderful vibe. Apart from first class productions of the three operas at the Deutches Oper (Ii Viaggio a Reims, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Il Trittico) what particularly struck me was how the legacy of the Cold War and the Berlin Wall is...
