• Offers
• Tariff
• Contact
• Check Availability

"A stunning Welsh hideaway set amid glorious surroundings"
The Sunday Times

• Home
• Hotel Tour
• Your Room
• Food & Drink
• Looking after you
• Location

• Fishing
• Business Retreats
• Activities
• Special Occasions
• Access
• Gardens

• Environment
• Events
• Opera Night
• A Good Day Out
• Spring Fishing Deal

Saturday February 27th 2010

Gliffaes will be hosting our 10th Annual Opera Weekend on Saturday 27th February 2010. This event is always very popular amongst locals and hotel regulars alike. For those not familiar with the event the weekend runs something like this:

Five or six professional opera singers, all with experience at either Covent Garden, W.N.O. or E.N.O. gather at Gliffaes under the guidance of Penny Chalmers and put on a mixed programme from a broad base of operas and musicals; from Verdi to Noel Coward.  A sample programme is shown below.

The performance takes place in our sitting room where the normal furniture is swapped for seating for 80 and a baby grand piano. The evening starts at around 7.00pm and is followed by a cold buffet in the dining room. Tickets for the event cost £50, this includes dinner and wine and a donation to the singers' chosen charity. Last time over £1500 was raised.

Dress for the evening is Black Tie.

Please do call us if you would like more information or would like to book. 01874 730 371.

The Opera Programme from 2004

Quintet: from The Magic Flute …………………. …………………. Mozart
Aria: “Che farò senza Euridice” from Orfeo………………………Gluck
Aria: “ Largo al factotum” aria from The Barber of Seville ……… Rossini
Aria: Musetta’s aria from La Bohème………………………………Puccini
Aria: Great Isis Great Osiris from The Magic Flute…………………Mozart
Duet: from ‘Lakmé’………………………………………………… Delibes
Aria: Vissi d’Arte from Tosca………………………………………. Puccini
Song: Nina…………………………………………………………… Noel Coward
Aria: “ Vision fugitive” from Hérodiade …………………………… Massenet
Trio: from Rosenkavalier …………………………………………… Richard Strauss

PAUSE

Duet: La ci darem from Don Giovanni………………………………..Mozart
Song: “ A word on my ear”…………………………………………. Flanders and Swann
Three numbers from Porgy and Bess……………………………… ….. George Gershwin
Piano: Jasbo Brown Blues
Aria: “Summertime”
Duet: “Bess you is my woman now”
Song: “Because I were shy” …………………………………………….Lyell Johnston
Song: Cäcilie……………………………………………………………Richard Strauss
Songs: Four Whatnots……………………………………………………T C Sterndale-Bennett
Quintet: from Die Fledermaus ……………………………………………Johann Strauss