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Buxton International Festival

Buxton opera wins national award

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For the first time in its 40-year history, Buxton International Festival has won the ‘Achievement Award in Opera’ […]

November 4, 2019 Awards, Music, Opera

Workers would vote for this Victorian’s values

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Not all Victorians’ values were bad — and Britain’s long-suffering workers would be better off if we’d listen […]

October 1, 2019 Authors, Books, Festivals, Literature

Review: Victoria String Quartet, Buxton Festival

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Over the course of three lunchtime concerts at the Buxton International Festival the Victoria String Quartet played all of […]

July 24, 2019 Classical, Music, Reviews

Review: The Frith Piano Quartet, Buxton Festival

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Johann Hummel was born before Schubert but outlived him – though this is more a reflection of Schubert’s […]

July 22, 2019 Classical, Music, Reviews

Review: Soraya Mafi (soprano) & Adrian Kelly (piano), Buxton

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Soraya Mafi was born in Manchester. Her mother is Irish and her father Iranian. She brings an interesting […]

July 16, 2019 Classical, Music, Reviews

Review: Castalian String Quartet, Buxton International Festival

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This young quartet has already built a strong reputation for elegant, well-defined playing and so this performance to […]

July 12, 2019 Classical, Music, Reviews

Notes on a Scandal

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Rising opera star Samantha Lyn Clarke’s first leading role was as a much-misunderstood saint. Now she’s following that […]

July 1, 2019 Festivals, Music, Opera

Buxton International Festival starts next week

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One of the foremost pianists of our time, Peter Donohoe CBE, is to be the Artist-in-Residence at the […]

June 28, 2019 Festivals

Organ music added to silent film

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Art saved Notre Dame once and it can save it again, Buxton International Festival’s chief executive Michael Williams […]

June 11, 2019 Classical, Music

Buxton International Festival preview

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In July 30 1979 Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor opened the first Buxton Festival. Now, 40 years on, […]

May 30, 2019 Classical, Music

Wartime cricket didn’t thrill Canadian soldiers

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Canadian soldiers braved the worst the trenches could throw at them – but found one thing about World […]

May 28, 2019 Literature

Win tickets to the opera at Buxton

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One of the highlights of the 2019 Buxton International Festival will be the World Premiere of a specially-commissioned […]

April 18, 2019 Classical, Music

Festival takes to the road

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Stars more used to singing in the world’s leading opera houses will soon be performing in a village […]

March 1, 2019 Festivals, Music, Opera

Counting down to Buxton Book Weekend

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Buxton International Festival is counting down to November 24 when Nick Hewer, star of TV’s Countdown and The […]

November 20, 2018 Books, Literature

Women getting away with murder at Buxton

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Women will be getting away with murder at Buxton International Festival’s Book Weekend in November. Agatha Christie, PD […]

October 31, 2018 Authors, Books, Literature

Quarry firm comes to festival’s aid

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One corner of quarry firm Longcliffe’s Peak District operation is now home to a bit of darkest Peru […]

August 26, 2018 Festivals, News

Review: Alexei Watkins and Alex Woolf, Buxton

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This was an interesting programme to end my Buxton International Festival listening for the year. Another member of […]

July 24, 2018 Classical, Music, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review: classical recital, Buxton International Festival

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Ashley Riches, Katherine Broderick and Simon Lepper Kathryn Rudge was to have sung at this recital but she […]

July 22, 2018 Classical, Music, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review: Vision, The Telling, Buxton Festival Fringe

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Vision: The Imagined Testimony of Hildegard von Bingen, The Telling, St John’s Church, Buxton Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is one […]

July 21, 2018 Classical, Music, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review: The Fibonacci Sequence, Buxton International Festival

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The Fibonacci Sequence is a flexible group of leading musicians formed in 1984 by pianist Kathron Sturrock. The […]

July 16, 2018 Classical, Festivals, Music, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review: Jennifer Davis and Caroline Dowdle, Buxton International Festival

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Jennifer Davis introduced her recital by saying that she and Caroline were presenting songs that they loved singing […]

July 12, 2018 Classical, Festivals, Music, Reviews

Curlew crisis?

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Author Mary Colwell will re-live her 500-mile trek in search of clues to the growing threats facing one […]

July 12, 2018 Authors, Books, Literature, talks

Review: Joanna MacGregor, Buxton International Festival

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There are times when the condition of the human race leaves you doubtful about its purpose and positive […]

July 11, 2018 Classical, Festivals, Music, Reviews

Mark returns to his roots

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Buxton International Festival’s leading role in creating the theatre professionals of the future will be centre stage when […]

July 5, 2018 Uncategorized

Sketching contesting Buxton’s new Spiegeltent

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Buxton International Festival will draw on the spirit of Toulouse-Lautrec by putting artists centre stage in a sketching […]

July 3, 2018 Festivals, Uncategorized, Visual Art

Artsbeat’s pick of the Festival at Buxton

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Here are some suggestions from artsbeat for a full day out at the 2018 Buxton International Festival. Tickets […]

June 25, 2018 Authors, Books, Classical, Festivals, Jazz, Literature, Music, talks

Charity to take care home residents to festival

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Care homes will provide their residents with front row seats during this year’s Buxton International Festival thanks to […]

May 31, 2018 Festivals

Buxton celebrates bumper Fringe programme

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Buxton Festival Fringe is celebrating another bumper Fringe with an open-to-all Programme Party at Buxton’s Green Man Gallery […]

May 24, 2018 Uncategorized

New chief executive for Buxton International Festival

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Michael Williams, who is currently managing director of Cape Town Opera, has been appointed as the new chief […]

March 7, 2018 Classical, Festivals, Music, Opera

Join crime writers for a special lunch

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Queen of the murder mystery Val McDermid is back on home ground when she returns to Derbyshire for […]

November 9, 2017 Authors, Books, Literature

Decadence in Buxton

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Buxton’s heyday in the Edwardian era was a prime example of how Britain’s Age of Decadence changed our […]

October 28, 2017 Authors, Books, Festivals, Literature, Poetry

Buxton Festival is on a high says expert

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Buxton International Festival is “on a high” after one of the most critically-acclaimed seasons in its history, leading […]

October 25, 2017 Festivals

Lucy meets her hero at Buxton Festival

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Politics student Lucy Boardman – who made three speeches in the House of Commons before she was even […]

August 11, 2017 Books, Festivals, Literature

Review: Dinara Klinton, Buxton International Festival & Fringe Showcase 

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Buxton has been blessed this summer with a series of piano recitals by established, world class musicians.  This […]

July 23, 2017 Classical, Music, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review: The Consone Quartet, Buxton International Festival 

If the Fitzwilliam Quartet represents the old guard of British Chamber music then the Consone Quartet is very […]

July 19, 2017 Classical, Music, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review: Fitzwilliam Quartet, Buxton International Festival

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Day 8 of the Buxton International Festival was billed as “the day of the quartets” and it fell […]

July 19, 2017 Classical, Music, Reviews, Uncategorized

Sue Prince has it covered

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Derbyshire folk artist Sue Prince has brought the rhythm and movement of Buxton International Festival to life for […]

July 5, 2017 Crafts, Exhibitions, Festivals, Visual Art

Festival kick-starts creativity

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Buxton International Festival demonstrated how it helps to kick-start young people’s creativity with the premiere of a film […]

June 26, 2017 Film

Welsh speakers invited to opera

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There’s a welcome in the hillsides for Welsh speakers this summer… in England. Buxton International Festival is inviting […]

June 23, 2017 Music, Opera

Nature writer returns to his home town

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One of Britain’s leading nature writers has spoken of his fears for the future of the wilderness which […]

June 21, 2017 Authors, Literature

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