Venue: St Brides Spa Hotel, Saundersfoot

Time: 7pm

Details: 7pm Complimentary pre-dinner glass of Champagne 7.30 pm 3-course dinner with a complimentary after-dinner glass of Brandy

Back by popular demand, Hatstand Opera present more operatic magic and mayhem at the now almost legendary Tenby Festival Dinner. Book very early to avoid disappointment – delighted diners were asking to buy tickets for this 2010 event on the night of the 2009 event!

Hatstand Opera have been delighting audiences across the UK and beyond for 18 years with the very best in opera highlights. Hatstand Opera says their shows are like the weather: if you don't like it now, wait five minutes and it will change! Most extracts are sung in English, including at least two popular 'potboilers' and something really unusual for the buffs. No need for subtitles, when compère and mezzo Kirsty Young introduces who is singing what, when, and most important, why!

Add in a delicious dinner overlooking the wide sweep of Saundersfoot Bay, and an opportunity to stay over and enjoy the superb spa facilities, and you'll see why tickets for this event sell out weeks in advance!
Presented by Tenby Arts Festival, in conjunction with St Brides Spa Hotel, Saundersfoot Booking essential:£50 including a 3-course meal and opera in the stunning St Brides Cliff Top Restaurant.
Tickets available only from: St Brides Spa Hotel 01834812304 email:reservations@stbridesspahotel.co.uk

Your tasty trio of talented trillers are:
Toni Nunn (soprano): our Australian purveyor of high notes, high heels and immaculate nails. Favourite thing about Champagne: bubbles, lovely bubbles!
Roles include Violetta La Traviata, Queen of the Night The Magic Flute, Rosina The Barber of Seville, Adina L'Elisir d'amore, Mistress Ford Merry Wives of Windsor, Madam Herze The Impresario, Gilda Rigoletto, Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor, Nella Gianni Schicchi and Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte.

Kirsty Young (mezzo): our MC, director, and skilled piano cable gaffer tape operator. Favourite thing about Champagne: ask her after three glasses.
Roles include Dorabella Cosi Fan tutte, Auntie Peter Grimes, Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro, Nicklaus Tales of Hoffmann, Mercedes Carmen, Octavian Der Rosenkavalier, Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel and Rosina The Barber of Seville. She is founder and director of Hatstand Opera, and also writes on opera and music for various magazines including Classical Music and the website Opera Talent.

Jochem van Ast (baritone): our tall, tanned and mischievous Dutchman. Favourite thing about Champagne: Jeroboams.
Roles include Schaunard La Bohème, Figaro The Barber of Seville, Papageno The Magic Flute, Leporello Don Giovanni, Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte, Aeneas Dido and Aeneas, Dancaïro Carmen, Charpentier’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Dr Falke Die Fledermaus. In the last 18 months, he has sung with the Chorus of the Royal Opera House in three Wagner operas (and a Verdi opera for light relief)!

Jeremy Fisher (pianist): our digitally dexterous pianist,recently moved to Presteigne, and his garden is in Wales (just). Favourite thing about Champagne: when Kirsty's buying it.
Opera work includes La Bohème, Lulu, Aida, Il Seraglio, Candide, The Barber of Seville, The Trojans, Faust, Cosi fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata and Figaro. West End work includes Carmen Jones, Me and My Girl, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and Calamity Jane. He is also co-director of Vocal Process, is a lecturer at two UK music colleges, and gives master classes at colleges abroad, including Israel and Sweden. In 2007, Jeremy was musical director for the Scarborough Spa Orchestra.