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Buxton

15. Juli 2023

From the ballroom to the trenches: The Land of Might-Have-Been

Von Sarah Noble

Katie Coventry (Aminta) © Genevieve Girling

Arcadia in the Peak District: Mozart's Il re pastore at the Buxton International Festival

Von Sarah Noble, 9. Juli 2023

Mozart's early opera seria may not be his greatest achievement – but lightness of touch from all involved highlight its charms in Jack Furness' new production.

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Buxton

9. Juli 2023

Arcadia in the Peak District: Mozart's Il re pastore in Buxton

Von Sarah Noble

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, fine singing, confusing production

Von Peter Connors, 15. Juli 2022

Buxton International Festival presents Rossini's exhilarating La donna del lago with fine singing, but it is undermined by Jacopo Spirei's staging.

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Buxton

15. Juli 2022

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, confusing production

Von Peter Connors

Buxton Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

Von Robert Gainer, 6. Juli 2019

Every July, Buxton’s charming opera house hosts an international festival of opera, literature and the arts. This year the festival opened with a strong familiar favourite, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

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Buxton

6. Juli 2019

Buxton Festival celebrates 40th anniversary with Eugene Onegin

Von Robert Gainer

Flute, harp and Haydn in Macclesfield

Von Peter Connors, 12. Januar 2019

Katherine Baker and Lucy Wakeford delighted in Mozart, Debussy and Fauré with the Northern Chamber Orchestra in a concert crowned by an undeservedly rare symphony by Haydn.

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Macclesfield

12. Jan. 2019

Flute, harp and Haydn in Macclesfield

Von Peter Connors

Manchester

Staples of the Romantic repertoire from Freddy Kempf and the NCO at Stoller Hall

Von Aaron Davies, 28. September 2018

Manchester's highly polished Northern Chamber Orchestra is joined by Freddy Kempf to deliver a highly enjoyable performance, full of vim and vigour.

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Manchester

28. Sept. 2018

Staples of the Romantic repertoire from Freddy Kempf and the NCO

Von Aaron Davies

Monsters of the mind: Idomeneo at the Buxton Festival

Von Mark Pullinger, 8. Juli 2018

Stephen Medcalf directs a coherent staging of Mozart’s opera seria in which Idomeneo’s inner demons are to be battled.

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Buxton

8. Juli 2018

Monsters of the mind: Idomeneo at the Buxton Festival

Von Mark Pullinger

Revolutionary jungle fever: Verdi's Alzira staged at the Buxton Festival

Von Mark Pullinger, 7. Juli 2018

A spirited account of Verdi's early opera in its first professional UK staging, nowhere near as “ugly” as Verdi would have had us believe.

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Buxton

7. Juli 2018

Revolutionary jungle fever: Verdi's Alzira in Buxton

Von Mark Pullinger

Fresh peaches of temptation: Britten's Albert Herring at Buxton

Von Charlotte Valori, 8. Juli 2017

A period-perfect Albert Herring from Francis Matthews for Buxton International Festival takes time to settle into its stride, but provides plenty of laughs along the way.

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Buxton

8. Juli 2017

Fresh peaches of temptation

Von Charlotte Valori

Clamorous harbingers of blood and death: Verdi's Macbeth at Buxton International Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 7. Juli 2017

A searing, edge-of-your-seat spinetingler from Elijah Moshinsky makes the strongest possible case for Verdi's first Macbeth, ideally suited to the proportions of Buxton's beautiful Opera House.

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Buxton

7. Juli 2017

Verdi's Macbeth at Buxton International Festival

Von Charlotte Valori

Small-scale but energetic Beethoven in Echoes of Vienna

Von Peter Connors, 4. März 2017

The Northen Chamber Orchestra bring small-scale but energetic accounts of Beethoven, plus Anthony Gilbert's intriguing Another Dream Carousel to the Heritage Centre in Macclesfield.

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Macclesfield

4. März 2017

Small-scale but energetic Beethoven

Von Peter Connors

Knives out in Verona: a fine I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Buxton Festival

Von Dominic Lowe, 9. Juli 2016

Stephanie Marshall's Romeo and Sarah-Jane Brandon's Giulietta make this production of Bellini's version of Romeo and Juliet utterly compelling.

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Buxton

9. Juli 2016

Knives out in Verona: Capuleti at Buxton Festival

Von Dominic Lowe

“Beethoven's what?” Leonore at Buxton Festival

Von Dominic Lowe, 8. Juli 2016

Stephen Barlow makes the case for Beethoven's earlier version of Fidelio, but doesn't quite manage to convince.

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Buxton

8. Juli 2016

“Beethoven's what?" Leonore at Buxton Festival

Von Dominic Lowe

Springtime in Italy in Macclesfield: Northern Chamber Orchestra

Von Peter Connors, 14. Mai 2016

Craig Ogden in Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Guitar Concerto no. 1 is the highlight of the Northern Chamber Orchestra's varied concert of (mostly) Italian music in Macclesfield.

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Macclesfield

14. Mai 2016

Springtime in Italy in Macclesfield

Von Peter Connors

Unfamiliar Haydn symphony shines in Macclesfield

Von Peter Connors, 31. Oktober 2015

The Northern Chamber Orchestra made a strong case for Haydn's Symphony No 21 and Ben Hudson gave a fine performance of Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in a historic Cheshire venue.

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Macclesfield

31. Okt. 2015

Unfamiliar Haydn symphony shines in Macclesfield

Von Peter Connors

Terrific Louise from Madeleine Pierard in Gustave Charpentier's opera at the Buxton Festival

Von Andrew H. King, 16. Juli 2015

Gustave Charpentier's Louise, revived and in excellent form at the Buxton Festival.

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Buxton

16. Juli 2015

Gustave Charpentier's Louise at the Buxton Festival

Von Andrew H. King

Gradually going flat: Lucia di Lammermoor at Buxton Opera Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 12. Juli 2015

Amateur gangsters, but a nicely sung, if rather staid Lucia di Lammermoor at Buxton, worth seeing for its excellent mad scene.

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Buxton

12. Juli 2015

Gradually going flat: Lucia di Lammermoor

Von Charlotte Valori

Dark and heavenly visions: Giovanna d'Arco at Buxton Opera Festival

Von Charlotte Valori, 11. Juli 2015

Verdi's rarely-performed early masterpiece gets a succinct, powerful outing in top class style at Buxton.

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Buxton

11. Juli 2015

Dark and heavenly visions: Giovanna d'Arco at Buxton

Von Charlotte Valori

Strauss' Intermezzo at Buxton Festival

Von Andrew H. King, 7. Juli 2012

Buxton, a small spa town in Derbyshire, has been home to one of the most imaginative and important festivals in Britain for over thirty years.

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