The elegant Derbyshire spa town of Buxton will host the 29th edition of its acclaimed festival which celebrates the works of this great English operatic partnership. Productions by international companies of many of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best-loved works are presented in Frank Matcham’s stunning opera house.

4 nights price from £1984 per person

Join us for our annual midsummer visit to The Grange Festival held in the heart of Hampshire, at one of the country’s most magnificent neo-classical houses, Grange Park.

3 nights price from £1737 per person

Parma

The annual Verdi Festival takes place in one of Italy’s most beautiful historic cities, Parma, and the 2025 Festival brings together operas inspired by the plays of Shakespeare: Otello & Falstaff.

5 nights price from £2798 per person

The Buxton International Festival offers one of the most varied and wide ranging programmes of any UK festival, including recitals, concerts, and a dynamic literary festival, as well as productions of carefully-selected operatic rarities.

4 nights price from £1996 per person

The North Norfolk Music Festival is firmly established as one of the country’s leading chamber music festivals. It’s twenty years since Barry Cheeseman and Simon Rowland-Jones, both well known to Kirker clients, held the first concert in the north Norfolk village of South Creake, five miles from the coast.

5 nights price from £1998 per person

Tenerife

Escape from the rigours of the British winter for a week of music-making in the subtropical Canary Islands. We return to Tenerife for our exclusive festival, staying at the splendid 5* Hotel Botanico surrounded by lush gardens in Puerto de la Cruz.

7 nights price from £3986 per person

Held every summer in Pesaro, where the composer was born in 1792, the Rossini Festival has always attracted the world’s greatest bel canto singers. Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballe, June Anderson, Rockwell Blake, Chris Merrit and Juan Diego Florez are just a few of those who have sung in Rossini’s hometown.

5 nights price from £3397 per person

Budapest

One of Europe’s most important cultural cities, Budapest has a fascinating history: from proud seat of Hungarian kings to twin-capital of the Habsburg Empire, through the Iron Curtain era and now experiencing enormous investment in the arts and its historic architecture.

Milan

La Scala, Milan is, for most opera lovers, the world’s most revered and important opera house. The theatre opened in 1778 with a performance of an opera by Salieri and since then many of the greatest Italian operas have received their first performance on its hallowed stage.

Lucca

Giacomo Puccini was born into a musical family in Lucca on 22 December 1858. As a boy Puccini sang in the choir of the Cathedral of San Martino and later received his musical education at the conservatory in Milan.

4 nights price from £2998 per person