Opera Tours
Norm and Tomoko await Nabucco at Verona’s Arena--August 2007
“Norm treats each member of his tours as if they are personal friends. He and his wife, Tomoko, both make sure that everyone is comfortable and happy. Norm’s enthusiasm is infections giving his lectures and tours an added sparkle.”
P.P./Portland, Oregon
Norm Hollingshead’s OperaPlus Opera Tours
OperaPlus Opera Tours
for 2013
NOTE: LA OPERA TOUR # 1 *OCT. 4-8, 2011; VANCOUVER OPERA TOUR, Dec. 2-4, 2011; LA OPERA TOUR # 2, FEBRUARY 23-27: “8 NIGHTS IN SANTA FE TOUR”, AUGUST 12-20; and LA OPERA TOUR# 3, OCTOBER 6-11, were successfully completed with 145 tour members (total, all 5 tours)
Below find details of a new
OPERAPLUS OPERA TOUR in October 2013:
“SAN FRANCISCO OPERA TOUR# 11”
Copyright © Norm Hollingshead, Norm Hollingshead’s OperaPlus. All rights reserved
In the Autumn of 1993, Norm
Hollingshead led his first opera
tour to San Francisco. It was enough of a success
that he led another, and another, and now, 20 years
later, his OperaPlus tour company is returning to San Francisco for
the 11th time, his 34th tour overall. San Francisco in early Autumn
is lovely and when you get 2 great operas, a splendid symphony concert, a charming hotel on Union Square with its terrific dining
and shopping possibilities, this is a tour that can’t be beat.
Here is what you get on SF Opera Tour # 11:
>>Great seats for 2 operas at the famed San Francisco Opera:
OCTOBER 2 is Boito’s riveting MEFISTOFELE with stars Ramon Vargas as Faust, Patricia Racette as Marguerite, and sexy Russian basso, Ildar Abdrazakov, as Mephisto. The real star though in SF’s MEFISTOFELE is a brilliant production famous round the world.
OCTOBER 4 is a world-premiere opera based on Stephen King’s chilling DOLORES CLAIBORNE (both a novel and a movie). SF Opera is famous for world-premiere operas and this could be one of the best--the composer is Tobias Picker, an American composer famous for EMMELINE at Santa Fe in the late 90’s and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY at the Met in 2005. The main reason to see DORIS CLAIBORNE though is to see American mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick, one of the greatest singing actresses of our time.
>>Great seats for a matinee concert by the famed San Francisco Symphony at the splendid Davies Hall.
OCTOBER 3 concert will hear the orchestra, conducted by rising star, Pablo Heras-Casado, play music from 3 centuries, including works by Lully, Mendelssohn (Symphony # 3--”Scottish”), Ades, and Stravinsky. Norm is most looking forward to Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with his favorite active violinist, Leila Josefowicz.
>>Round-trip air service between Seattle and Oakland on Alaska Airlines
>>All in-town transportation (round-trip between airport and hotel; round-trip between hotel and Opera House/Davies Hall) on our own Horizon Executive Coach
>>4 night’s lodging at Union Square’s popular Villa Florence Hotel. The Villa Florence is a full-service hotel and also the home to San Francisco’s most popular Italian Restaurant, Kuletos.
>>2 Opera preview lectures; one by Norm at the hotel before MEFISTOFELE and one at the Opera House before the world premiere, DOLORES CLAIBORNE.
>>(OPTIONAL)--”First Nighter’s Banquet”, catered by Kuleto’s, in a private room of the Villa Florence
Total Cost
Of This OperaPlus “SF # 11 Tour is
$1575 per person (double occupancy)
(“Single Supplement” is $145 per night for 4 nights)
To secure your place on this tour, send a check of $300 to serve as your deposit to Norm Hollingshead, 2360 43rd Ave. E., # 302, Seattle 98112.
If you have questions, call at (206) 329-6269 or
e-mail at normsoperaplus@mac.com. Thanks
SAN FRANCISCO
OPERA TOUR
# 11
OCTOBER 1-5, 2013
OCTOBER 2--Boito’s classic retelling of the“Faust” legend, MEFISTOFELE, with an all-star cast including Ramon Vargas and Patricia Racette
OCTOBER 3: San Francisco Symphony Concert with Leila Josefowicz, violin soloist
OCTOBER 4: World premiere opera based on a chilling Stephen King novel and starring mezzo powerhouse, Dolora Zajick
