4 day fully inlusive tour 12th march 15th march, 2020 · 2020. 2. 11. · tour inlusions...

4 DAY FULLY INCLUSIVE TOUR

12th March - 15th March, 2020

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Tahbilk Winery

Wangaratta

Monument Hill

Albury Botanical Gardens

Albury Railway Station

Bonegilla Migrant Experience

Murray Arts Museum Albury (MAMA)

Tawonga Gap Lookout

Red Stag Deer Farm

Beechworth

Opera in the Alps

Tungamah Silo

St James Silo

Devenish Silo

Goorambat Silo

‘Sophia’ Mural

Benalla Street Art

THURSDAY 12TH MARCH TO SUNDAY 15TH MARCH, 2020

Opera in the Alps has been reshaped into one of the country’s leading celebrations of culture, place and season from 2020!

Come and join O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours for the signature performance of Beechworth’s week-long festival, Opera In The Alps, beneath Baarmutha Park’s

spectacular white trunked eucalypts.

As a thank you for travelling with O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours, you will automatically receive a saving on the total tour price for your second and subsequent tours. O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours will match single travellers who wish to twin share with another single traveller of the same gender. However, if this is not possible, you shall be provided with single accommodation at the twin share fare (no additional cost).

STAY PUTCOACHNEW TOUR

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Goulburn Explorer

MULTIPLE NIGHT STAYS

3 nights in Wangaratta

TOUR INCLUSIONS

Complimentary chauffeur driven transfers. Pick up from and return to your home from Greater Melbourne, Bendigo, Torquay, Ballarat, Geelong, the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, selected areas of Gippsland and Phillip Island.

O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours Touring Coach. Travel by O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours Luxury Touring Coach. Features include comfortable reclining seats with ample leg room, arm and foot rests, seat belts, large panoramic windows with blinds, overhead parcel shelf, onboard rest room, Road Cam TV Screens which display the view ahead in real time, a kneeling (coach lowering) device, a second door for ease of entry and disembarkation and full air suspension for a smooth and quiet ride.

Tour Director. Dedicated O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours coach crew (tour directors) on board to ensure your travel experience is memorable.

Best Available Quality Accommodation. Ensuite motel accommodation each night. Attractions. All tours and interest venues as per itinerary. All Meals. Full cooked breakfasts, morning teas, lunches and two course restaurant

dinners daily.

TOUR COSTS

Twin Share Room: $1,960 per person

Twin Share Repeat Traveller 2 - 10 Tours: $1,935 per person

Twin Share Repeat Traveller 11 - 20 Tours: $1,910 per person

Twin Share Repeat Traveller 21+ Tours: $1,885 per person

Single Room Supplement: $ 215 per person

MELBOURNE TO WANGARATTA

Welcome to our special 4 day tour to Opera in the Alps and North Eastern Victoria. Departing home this morning we make our way to Nagambie where we board the Goulburn Explorer for our cruise down to Tahbilk Winery – one of Australia’s most beautiful and historic wineries. We have arranged lunch here before re-joining our coach to continue on to Wangaratta. Unpack just once as this is home for the next 3 nights.

OVERNIGHT: Quality Hotel, WANGARATTA

DAY 1 Thursday 12th March, 2020

ALBURY

We cross the border into NSW today, to Albury, separated from its twin city Wodonga in Victoria by the Murray River. Prominent hills lie at each end of Dean Street and offer excellent vistas of Albury and the surrounds. One aptly named Eastern Hill and the other Monument Hill, as a memorial Pillar (to the Soldiers of WWI) was erected on this hill. The views from the Monument are stunning. Next we make our way down to the Albury Botanical Gardens, featuring an impressive plant collection of both native and exotic origins. We then see Albury Railway Station which, in 1883, became a “change over station” for passengers between Melbourne and Sydney due to the different rail gauge used in NSW and Victoria. Next we visit the Bonegilla Migrant Experience. The migrant experience features the remnant huts and buildings of "Block 19" one of the original 24 accommodation blocks and other buildings that once covered a 130 ha area. The original complex was built as the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre in 1947 and until 1971 served as Australia's largest and longest operating migrant centre. It was the first Australian home for more than 300,000 post war migrants from over 50 countries. After lunch we’ll visit the Murray Arts Museum Albury (MAMA). Every corner of MAMA is bold, vibrant and alive. Along with an emphasis on innovative, self-curated exhibitions, MAMA features a stunning 24-hour 'art skin', interactive workshops and immersive cultural experiences. MAMA re-imagines what a gallery can be.


DAY 2 Friday 13th March, 2020

ALPINE COUNTRY AND OPERA IN THE ALPS

We head along the Kiewa Valley Highway this morning and stop at the Tawonga Gap Lookout for some stunning High Country views of Mount Bogong, the highest peak in the Victorian Alps and Mount Beauty. Lunch today is in Eurobin where we enjoy a visit to the Red Stag Deer Farm. This commercial Deer Farm was established in 1987 and the 375 acre property borders the Mt. Buffalo National Park. After an early dinner and a chance to freshen up we drive to Beechworth for the signature Opera in the Alps performance beneath Baarmutha Park’s spectacular white-trunked eucalypts. This year’s diverse programme features Silvia Colloca (Mezzo Soprano), Thomas Strong (Tenor), Samuel Dundas (Baritone), William Barton (Didgeridoo); and conducted by Guy Noble. There will be performances from Opera Scholars Australia and Symphony Australia. At the conclusion of the evening we travel back to Wangaratta.


SILVIA COLLOCA

Italian born Silvia received her musical education in Italy and completed her studies in classical singing in 2003. She participated in various master classes throughout Italy over the years. In 2008/9 she toured the UK as the lead Mezzo Soprano in the West End show A Night at the Opera, which culminated with a season at the London Palladium. Performing arias and duets from the Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Carmen.

Silvia moved to Sydney in 2010 and debuted on the Australian stage in the title role of Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfoed Euridice. In 2015, she reprised the title role at the Spectrum Now Festival. Reviewers have praised Silvia’s voice and dramatic range with generosity.

DAY 3 Saturday 14th March, 2020

SAMUEL DUNDAS

Samuel is a graduate of the Melba Conservatorium of Music and his performance experience encompasses opera, musical theatre and concerts. He has sung in concerts throughout Australia and New Zealand.

He made his operatic debut with Opera Queensland in 2005. He went on to become a member of Victorian Opera’s Artist Development program. He has performed in the title role in Don Giovanni, Papageno (The Magic Flute), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Belcore (The Elixir of Love), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), the Second Soldier (The Love of Nightingale), Creon / The Messenger (Oedipus Rex) and Chief Clerk (Metamorphosis), as well as Schaunard in the Puccini: The Sacred and Profane Gala Concert.

THOMAS STRONG

Thomas grew up in Outback NSW. He completed his Bachelor of Performing Arts at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and a Masters of Music (Opera) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He performed with many opera and theatre companies. He began his career singing in Baritone and transitioned to a Tenor. His roles include: Cascada in The Merry Widow, Enjolras in Les Miserables, SkyMasterson in Guys and Dolls, Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata, Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro, Rodolfo from La Boheme and The Witch in the Opera Hansel and Gretel plus more. He was also a member of The Australian Tenors.

He has received numerous awards for singing, the most prestigious of which was the winner of Australia’s largest opera award, The Opera Foundation Australia Lady Fairfax Scholarship.

WILLIAM BARTON

For two decades, William Barton forged a peerless profile as a performer and composer in the classical musical world, from the Philharmonic Orchestras of London and Berlin. His awards include Winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album with ARIA for Birdsong at Dusk in 2012. With his prodigious musicality and the quiet conviction of his Kalkadunga heritage, he has vastly expanded the horizons of the didgeridoo – and the culture and landscape that it represents.

DAY 4 Sunday 15th March, 2020

HOMEWARD BOUND THROUGH SILO COUNTRY

We have a leisurely start this morning before we farewell our hosts to begin our journey home. Silos are drawing crowds to small country towns in Victoria, so we’re off to do a little silo spotting of our own. Our first stop today is in Tungamah to see brolgas and a kookaburra. The St James silos features the story of GJ Coles (Coles Supermarkets). In Devenish, see Cam Scale’s artwork representing the changing role of women in the military – a First World War nurse and a modern-day combat medic. At the Goorambat Silo we see a Barking Owl, which is critically endangered. We’ll also make a stop here at the Uniting Church to view the stunning depiction of ‘Sophia’ the female aspect of the Holy Spirit. Each silo has a different artist and a different story! After lunch in Benalla we’ll take a drive to see some of the Street Art – artists from around the world were brought together to paint murals on bare walls, some over three stories high. We then head home with some fantastic memories of our Autumn tour.

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Any special passenger requirements must be notified to O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours upon booking. No passenger will be permitted to embark on or continue the tour while their physical or mental condition

is, in the opinion of any representative of O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours, such as to render them incapable of caring for themselves, or whereby they become objectionable to other passengers, or they become a hazard to themselves or other passengers. Whilst on tour with O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours should a passenger require medical attention, discharge papers must be provided to a representative of O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours before you are able to re-join the tour.

O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours will not be responsible for expenses resulting in such persons being precluded from completing the tour for any such reason. No refunds or transfers will be given on any unused portions of the itinerary.

It is a requirement of O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours that each passenger is able to negotiate coach steps without the aid of the coach crew or other passengers.

Any passenger who requires assistance for any of the above is required to travel with a companion capable of providing all necessary assistance.

Passengers who are smokers, have a CPAP machine or snore, unless travelling with a companion, will be required to pay the single supplement premium for the sole use of a room.

Items of a personal nature such as medical expenses, mini bar, beverages, laundry service, room service, internet usage, telephone calls, and any optional extras are not included in your tour price.

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Deposit is fully refundable until 31 days prior to departure date

Cancellation 30 to 15 days before tour departure date 75% Refund of Tour Cost



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4 day fully inlusive tour 12th march 15th march, 2020 · 2020. 2. 11. · tour inlusions...

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