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BuxtonThe Merry Widow
Lehár: Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)
Iwan Davies; John Savournin; Buxton Festival Opera; takis; Ben Pickersgill; Buxton International Festival Orchestra
BuxtonLa traviataNew production
Verdi: La traviata
Adrian Kelly; James Hurley; Buxton Festival Opera; Elliott Squire; Zahra Mansouri; Ben Pickersgill; Buxton International Festival Orchestra
BuxtonAmadigi di Gaula
Handel: Amadigi di Gaula
Erin Helyard; Olivia Fuchs; Buxton Festival Opera; Eleanor Bull; Ben Pickersgill; The English Concert
BuxtonLe dernier sorcier
Viardot-García: Le dernier sorcier
Erika Gundesen; Lysanne van Overbeek; Buxton Festival Opera; Alisa Kalyanova; Alex Musgrave; Buxton International Festival Orchestra
BuxtonLa clemenza di TitoConcert performance
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Adrian Kelly; Corina Wuersch; Buxton Festival Opera; Buxton International Festival Orchestra; Buxton Festival Chorus; Xavier Mas; Indyana Schneider
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From the ballroom to the trenches: The Land of Might-Have-Been
Setting the life of Vera Brittain to the music of Ivor Novello, Buxton Festival's new musical is a welcome if overambitious showcase for them both.
Arcadia in the Peak District: Mozart's Il re pastore in Buxton
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.
Buxton Festival celebrates 40th anniversary with Eugene Onegin
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.
For teenage kicks: Mozart's Lucio Silla at Buxton International Festival
The fashion for reviving Mozart's teenage operas brings a vocally dazzling production of Lucio Silla to Buxton, nevertheless hampered by the work's own lack of believable drama and some fairly flat staging.
Fresh peaches of temptation
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.
Verdi's Macbeth at Buxton International Festival
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.